From his telegram
I will be releasing a torrent file that should be spread to as many people as possible. Please only use torrent if you absolutely know what you are doing. It is possible to dox yourself with torrents if you don’t correctly setup your security.
edit: Don’t stay up late waiting for this torrent, it is still being prepared and needs hours to complete.
If one person holds an important file, that person is an easy target. If a million people hold an important file, the file becomes an impenetrable shield for all.
Download the torrent and immediately remove torrent and kill the torrent client when you're not using it.
sitting around seeding shit is how u get caught
You can seed if you are VPN'd, public Wifi etc. Bear in mind that without some seeds it will be hard to continue spreading the file.
don't use torrents without a vpn
Use vpn, seed 20 min,
Connect to diff vpn, seedy
Connect to diff vpn seedy
Rotate IPs
Basic OPSEC
Pass off to hand up to UseNet
Just a reminder, many VPNs offer Internet Kill Switch capability. If the VPN connection is broken, it halts all traffic from your computer until reconnected again. Probably a good idea for those new to VPNs. You don't want to lose your VPN connection and remain connected to the Internet, especially if you are seeding or uploading.
This. ExpressVPN does this. It isn’t a free VPN, but sometimes what you pay is what you get. It’s $50 every 6 months. I’ve been using it for over 5 years now on multiple internet providers, and never been ratted out. Although, use any VPN at your own risk, because at this point I don’t trust any tech company to be owned by non-deepstaters.
Another thing... Someone else posted to have a separate machine for torrent use.
I think one of the best reasons for this is that many of us tend to have apps, browsers, and email clients set up on our daily machines, and many of these can track you too. As an example, Chrome browser, owned by Google, tracks everything you do online, even in incognito mode. Same with most browsers and apps that are logged in. Google has already admitted that they will go through your Google Drive folder and delete information they deem to be against their policies, i.e. exactly what we are talking about.
If you download anything, save it to an external drive or SD card and remove from your device.
If your machine is connected to all these apps and browsers, and you're connected to your VPN, and these apps and browsers still work, then they are using the exact same IP connection points your machine is. I don't think you are hidden very well if that is the case.
So use a lean machine and don't log into anything on the device.
I use Dissenter Browser, which is based on Chromium (not Chrome), and I've been very happy with it. In addition to a privacy browser, it also offers a Tor privacy browser as well.
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Excellent advice, especially for torrenting!!!
Some torrenting software also link to your network device. If the network device stops being the gateway to the internet, it kills the torrent access to the internet.
This can be considered a second failsafe.
Thanks GreatFunana. In addition to using Tor, one can use a network router that has VPN built in. They can then also use a software VPN on their machine as well. Each connected to different VPN locations. Both with Internet Kill Switch enabled. Add in a relatively secure browser like Dissenter (with ad blocking and Tor) and that should be a fairly secure setup, in addition to my comment below about not being signed into apps or software that tracks your activity.
With my VPN I can choose the country to appear to be from. I have bypassed MSM by using VPN.
Lol, thats the most basic thing to do in a VPN. It's like bragging you know how to make a car "move forwards using the gas pedal!" ;)
Be nice :)
lmao
Connecting through multiple and switching is better than connecting through one and changing location.
Get IP rotation going as well.
I’m glad. Grow your vpn resources.
Here is a free vpn.
https://vanwa.tech/free-openvpn-service
It’s simple. Install OpenVPN and load up the config - you can even vpn within a vpn and tunnel
Thanks for the link, do you know if it works on linux and if not do you know any free VPN for linux ?
Thanks for the share!
With my pencil I can write letters. Duh.
I've been using the same VPN server for about 4 years, seeding games, movies, etc. and never had an issue.
Your ISP can't see the traffic, and a good VPN keeps no logs, so if you and 100 other people are connected to that same server 24/7, there's no way of proving who is doing what.
Whereas, they do generally log who is connected and when, and shitty VPNs also save how much data is transmitted.
So if they really wanted to track you, and they subpoena your VPN host, they can see you connected to X, Y, Z during these times and transmitted this much data. That's a lot worse that being connected to X for weeks/months at time transmitting massive amounts that can't be traced to individual locations.
The key term was “Good VPN”.
NordVPN is a good vpn to many and they were knocked over, kept logs they said they didn’t, and those were exposed to a non-disclosed state actor - all while Nord kept their mouths shut and refused to disclose for months as they didn’t know how long they had been knocked over & that reality broke their entire business model.
If you want to explore there are quite a few free VPNs. VanwaTech that acts as the CDN for 8Kun provides a free VPN.
Edit: also do not use any VPNs in Europe. GDPR requires them to log
NordVPN had a single server that was compromised due to the people running the farm leaving on a remote access system that Nord wasn't even aware of, let alone was responsible for. Read more here.
They have an intact warrant canary: https://nordvpn.com/security-efforts/
They also have passed multiple third-parties' no-log audits to confirm that they don't keep any logs.
So unless you have some evidence of this state actor getting logs (that aren't kept?), I'll have to disregard your post.
As with anything "free," if you aren't paying for it, you are the product.
Sage advice. I would generally avoid USA-based ones as well, especially in this current political climate.
I am a novice at this, what VPN is recommended. I believe I have Norton’s, any suggestions. Thank you.
I got NordVPN's 3-year plan when it was on sale at one point for like $100. Been torrenting happily with no issues on it!
Ultimately, you want to find a VPN that doesn't keep logs, and has servers outside of countries that are a part of 14-eyes (countries that spy on each other's citizens to get around laws preventing doing so, like America).
Those are: US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, France, Holland, Norway, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Spain
Don't use VPN servers in those countries.
If you have protonmail, their vpn is good. It gets top ratings for both security and privacy.
If I am not mistaken Symantec's VPN blocks torrenting. Am I correct?
What does this accomplish in this case? (Curious.) All the IPs will likely be tracked on the torrent anyway... Couldn't this be counterproductive?
Good question.
Many network mechanisms track connection times.
Most ISPs will traffic shape and do more to long running file transfers and they tend to also audit - specifically what ports traffic is being sent over.
BitTorrent isn’t new - most of them have ways of tracking / throttling and know VPNs are involved.
Every time you connect to a swarm from a new IP these reactions in the ISP side reset.
They really don’t play whack-a-mole well so it’s nothing but benefits for you.
Years back I was in a swarm where the contents was from a hack on the Rockefeller private data collection.
Insane shit. Manuals for deep underground military bases snd more.
Lots of folks on VPNs were contacted.
But muh no logs........ ;)
Opsec ? You mean cybersec ...right .. opsec is when you don't tell the enemy your plan. Or leave crumbs around for them to find you plan... Like posting your plan on a forum..
CYBERSEC is a fag term for the self important.
Any aspect of any endeavor involved OPSEC and situational awareness.
From CYBERSEC referencing shills to not doxing via linguistics anywhere on the net.
Thinking there is a physical person doing an audit on you is more light-sided naive thinking - machine learning has been bagging and tagging everything that could be fed into it for years now.
Why Ron would suggest Torrents comes off as a good bit desperate to me.
Anyone thinking about this need to understand you won’t see the contents of the swarm until you see the contents of the swarm - that payload could be anything.
Reminder Israel runs Telegram and could any time fake an account message just as any Social can.
Check my account I'm not a shill. I was a military crypto linguist. Just a stickler for words the comment was meant to be in gest.
Say you're from the media if you get caught
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRBppdC1h_Y
That clip never gets old
It's only illegal if you get caught
Use a seedbox.