If your IPS and the local authorities will not do anything if you download, upload and publish anything, what is the bare minimum of security measures you can do? Context: I live in Southamericas, here we have worse thing to deal with.
I’d say say at least use a VPN. Most of the suggested security practices are easy enough there’s really no reason not to…
Why would you use a VPN? What’s the advantage, aside from not letting my ISP know what I’m doing?
I’ve personally been doing this for many years, seeding all sorts of nasty stuff and no one that I know has ever gotten so much as an email.
Feel free to use no privacy measures, but at least setup an alert so you know if your country’s police decides to start persecuting pirates.
I recommend u setup a Google alert with a query like “YOUR-COUNTRY-HERE arrestan pirateria”. So if a news article that matches that query ever gets posted online, you’ll instantly get an email
How tf did I never heard of this Google feature ? thanks
Don’t worry, it’s probably going to be killed soon like all good Google products
I wouldn’t worry about that. Google has had this feature for a VERY VERY long time.
You can see many Google services have been deleted even after 10 years of service :(
what is the bare minimum of security measures you can do?
I guess just the normal things with p2p stuff: make sure no ports are exposed except for the essentials, update software, use SSL wherever possible.
When you don’t use VPN, people will see your actual IP adress and will launch the same kind of attacks, they also launch on servers [1] to try to hijack your system and add them to their bot net.
[1] port scans, login-attemps, applying known exploits. If this doesn’t sound scary, you should try operating a server that is exposed on the internet and then look at the number of login attemps.
In Chile I recall Microsoft sending a notification to my former worplace because someone used torrent to download a game from inside the company network. That person didn’t notice that all traffic was being routed to company’s VPN hosted in MS Azure.
ISPs don’t give a shit. The goverment has laws against piracy that are never applied (you know: Southamerica, the lawlessness). But gringo companies do care.
My advice is to avoid Google, MS and the big tech to follow your pirates activities. They may suspend services to you, or notifiy some local authority.
Use a different browser or machine for your big tech interactions, and you’ll be fine.
Edit: typos.
I just don’t care about any of that at all. I have around 100TB of seeding accumulated over the years, no VPN, zero security measures, nothing ever happened at all.
Custom DNS and VPN, more secure would be Tor but its not everyday use fast.
Torrenting with TOR is bad mkay https://tor.stackexchange.com/a/68
Be ware of using VPN if you want spanish content and wanna join a private tracker; all spanish private tracker ban the use of VPNs
My advice is to check if your ISP is blocking you from access to the sites you plan to use and pick one that doesn’t. If you plan to use torrent check if your ISP is outside CG-NAT (or let’s you leave it) to enable port forwarding
If your country doesn’t care about piracy do not complicate your life further till they care, just stay up to date. As for measures I always use independantly of context, I just recommend using
- Firefox with uBlock Origin and NoScript
- Bitwarden or other password manager
- A email relay services such as iCloud private relay or Duck email proxy
- Flee of companies that sell your data, such as Google, Meta, Tiktok, etc
What spanish private tracker would you recommend? All i found is dessert…
HD-Olimpo, redbits, xbytes, torrenteros if you want latin content
Mullvad Browser or Tor Browser + VPN, you should be good
Avoid Tor Browser if you can please, it’s slow and the bandwidth might be better needed by people in difficult circumstances.
A good VPN is better for sharing media.If tor is only used by people in difficult circumstances, it is targetable. The bad guys flood the network with compromised nodes, overwhelm clean nodes, and pretty soon, the network is useless for exactly the people who need it.
The way tor works, it is more valuable to those people when it is used primarily by people who don’t need it.
Mind blown by flawless logic
They can track VPNs as Tor traces comparing the incoming and outgoing, making noise helps to make this more difficult for them.
Absolutely no sarcasm intended. I had just never thought of it that way.
Tor browser can be used to access the site itself but don’t use it for torrenting itself.
