How can BitTorrent traffic be anonymized with Tor?
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This blog post from a few years ago suggests that using BitTorrent services over Tor is a bad idea for multiple reasons. However, it also suggests some fixes to get over these problems. Is using a
  1. It doesn’t make you anonymous. Torrent protocol wasn’t designed with anonymity in mind and there are a million ways you’re going to leak your actual IP address.
  2. Tor is a TCP only network.
  3. While this doesn’t give you the anonymity you wanted, it will hurt the network for other users.
  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.eeEnglish
    311·
    1 year ago

    Tor was also built by the Navy right? I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t make it easy to get away with breaking the law over that

    • Vub@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      You misunderstand, this is not the issue here. It is just not made for torrents and they hurt/break the network.

      • WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Specifically, it overloads the network. A single VPN server used for torrenting (proton, air, nord, etc) deals more traffic than the whole Tor network.