Friendly reminder that the panopticon we live under today was considered horrifying a hundred years ago
It’s still horrifying today. We’re just powerless to stop it.
…which is why today’s sponsor is NordVPN!
(don’t actually use NV there are much better options, this was for comedic effect)
What’s wrong with Nord?
Overall the marketing is dishonest/over promises and there’s some previous lack of transparency with data breaches along with being closed source. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NordVPN#Criticism
There’s just better options: https://thatoneprivacysite.xyz/
*Builds privacy site*
*Embeds Google sheet*
That sheet seems to hold Nord in pretty good regard,
I used to use Nord. Happier with Mullvad, way less faff
The Big Brother energy of that “We Can See You” eye in the middle is pretty high.
Yeah college networks are one of the biggest ones I would not trust unless I had a VPN going. Average computing? Perfectly fine. Naughty things? VPN up
More reason to use a VPN.
They’re not trying to actually stop you; they’re trying to keep the lawyers at bay.
If you get the torrent from a site using HTTPS and get the data only from encrypted peers is it even possible to tell what people are downloading?
If it was me, I’d snoop the DNS requests and/or SNI headers. Flag on torrent index sites and trackers known to be used for pirate stuff. They don’t need to know exactly which paw patrol movie you’re downloading, just that you are getting something from thepiratebay.
For anything public, it’s anything varying from trivial to hard/annoying depending on your client settings, but never quite impossible. Even in the best-case scenario where you have DHT turned off and all the trackers in the torrent are using HTTPS, man-in-the-middle attacks are fairly doable for anything popular.
Not from monitoring on the network
But if one of those peers is a snitch then you have a potential issue
