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BitBlinder: free, anonymous torrenting may be a reality
by Jay Hathaway Jun 13th 2009 at 11:00AM
BitBlinder is sort of like a private tracker for your anonymous data. A private tracker requires you to upload a certain percentage of data compared to what you download, in order to keep using it. BitBlinder works the same way, requiring each person on the network to anonymize a certain amount of data for others in order to have their own data anonymized for free. To keep your IP address safe, it's passed through several peers before it reaches your target website, but each computer only receives the address of the next peer in the chain, not the address the request is coming from. That way, you don't know who anyone else is, and nobody else knows who you are, which makes it difficult for anyone to track what each person on the network is doing.
BitBlinder isn't just good for torrents, though. It can also be used to hide your browsing activity and get around blocked sites at work or school. BitBlinder comes with an anonymous browser, built on Firefox. It's worth noting that BitBlinder will be a bit slower than browsing without anonymity, but still faster than TOR. It's planned as a cross-platform project, but the Mac version isn't ready quite yet. Registration is required, and there are currently a limited number of slots available.
[via TorrentFreak]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
wrs589 said 11:14AM on 6-13-2009
So all you have to do to avoid being caught downloading torrents is let others download torrents as you instead?
I see a flaw here...
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der_tuxman said 12:04PM on 6-13-2009
Another useless proxy software... additionally, I'm with wrs589.eMule with IPFilter is all I need. No servers, only KAD. Global search function. And a much higher file diversity than Torrent has.jm2c
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Wewtaco said 1:25PM on 6-13-2009
what stops the last person from being caught?
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Ethan said 2:28PM on 6-13-2009
I thought we had encrypted bittorrent anyway. Does that not do what I think it does?
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wrs589 said 5:48PM on 6-13-2009
Nope. It doesn't. All it does is (attempt to) stop your ISP from throttling your bittorrent traffic.
Alex said 11:32AM on 6-14-2009
Problem is if the last guy in the line is downloading something illegal, it looks like the feds will think that it's the first guy in line doing it. I'm pretty sure the "I'm just holding it for a friend" defense won't hold up in court.
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turu said 5:40PM on 6-14-2009
reminded me another anonymous torrent project called "oneswarm".
http://oneswarm.cs.washington.edu/
why do I know this ? cuz it appeared on my peer list w full ip address while I was using utorrent. you never know how you looks like to the others, you know...
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Undrhil said 9:12AM on 6-15-2009
"Registration is required." I see a flaw when a piece of software to be used as an anonymizer requires registration.
A better plan would be to make a piece of software the changes the TCP/IP headers to show *a different IP address* down the line, so that even if someone did try to trace it back, it won't go where they think it goes.
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