nmxdaven Posted February 10, 2007 Report Share Posted February 10, 2007 I understand that nothing you do on the internet is safe. Everything can be tracked one way or another and everything leaves a trail. But some methods are better than others. My question is to how private my configuration currently is and how well utorrent works with it.I recently signed up with a Pay-for socks5 proxy network, and configured utorrent accordingly. I'm using the proxy to connect to the peers as well. I noticed a huge reduction of blocked attempts on Peer Guardian 2, however, I'm still getting non-port 80 hits from time to time. Why is that? Also, does this method successfully hide your ip from the peers? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted February 10, 2007 Report Share Posted February 10, 2007 There may be some amount of 'leakage' in the µTorrent program itself (and BitTorrent programs in general), which by INTENT hand out your ip address on the torrent you're on.BitTorrent is not made to hide your ip address...instead it gives it out so others can download+upload with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmxdaven Posted February 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 Well that shouldn't be the case if your using the use proxy server for peer to peer connections correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted February 11, 2007 Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 Not neccessarily.The proxy is a route, but the BitTorrent program still may incorrectly give out your local internet ip instead of your proxy's ip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 11, 2007 Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 don't pirate and you'll be safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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