IMPORTANT UPDATE: Torrent Privacy software has some serious issues that will expose your details (not hide you). Until these are fixed DO NOT USE Torrent Privacy.
For those of us amongst us who like to download files online utlising the amazing technology that is torrents, there is always a bit of an underlying concern about just what might happen to you if you accidentally download the wrong file and some nasty chap gets a hold of you.
That’s where the most excellent folks at Torrent Privacy can help. They provide a subscription service that allows you to securely channel all of your torrent data to their servers and then in to the big cloud. This obfuscates your computer, and affords you a large level of protection.
On another note, if your ISP is (either by admission or your suspician) filtering your torrent traffic and potentially slowing you down, then this traffic will appear as completely legitimate SSH traffic. Something that an ISP would be very foolish to mess with. As an aside – if you want to test to see if your ISP is blocking / slowing your Peer-to-Peer traffic – then have a look at this amazing test tool.
The only current draw back with Torrent Privacy is that they currently only provide a windows ready application. They have other platforms on the way, but as yet their is no release date.
One thing to keep in mind is that ultimately if “big brother” (what ever form it takes) really, really wants to know who you are – they can probably work it out. But the level of protection that Torrent Privacy affords should suffice for most users just wanting to download items for personal use.
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