(Mar 07, 2018, 20:26 pm)ill88eagle Wrote: There are lots of safety measures you can take if you are paranoid. A few have been mentioned here (TOR / VPN). In case you are really really paranoid, switch to linux. Beef up your firefox with noscript, adblocker, some cookie destroyer, and that plugin that sends random search queries to all engines every five minutes, and more bloat.
The real truth is that copyright trolls target torrent swarms. Not the sites. Torrent swarm are extremely vulnerable, and it was proven years ago by a couple of russian programmers creating a site where theyd show you what you'd been downloading over the last few days. Only way to escape that is a VPN or a seedbox.
Musnt forget LSOs and Ghostery (or Umatrix/Ublock origin).
Browser security is of course important, especially as more and more sites are using apparently more outrageous and unnecessarily scripting tricks that can be used also as malware practices.
I nearly always use a VPN, and frequently TorBrowser as well ( I dont use TOR for downloads, it was not desgined for it).
Indeed, the DMCA targets swarms, as technically according to at least WTO rules they need to prove that the files were actually shared by downloaders. And the current protocol is to simply have users pinkslapped by ISPs.
But within the Empire, there is more prattling about clamping down on 'intellectual property' which can only mean more draconian measures, which would appear to mean going after using lists of those with the technical knowledge to avoid the edicts of the korporatocracy. No 'proof' of anything is required with this regime. Only reason for suspicion, and you are guilty until proven innocent.
Many of the hacker/'pirate' sites are actively giving users (especially the less experienced newer users) the sage advice about the need for VPNs and/or TOR. Of course I can be cynical and say the only reason they are doing this is for revenue from VPN sites. I would like to believe otherwise.
My simple suggestion here is to bring out for discussion the possible need to do likewise for email anonymizers. To keep as much anonymity as possible between users and sites as possible. The *need* for this will of course depend on the site. Here, such 'need' would be low. On the main TPB site my guess it will be high, especially for those sharing via torrent politically sensitive materials.
(Mar 07, 2018, 20:26 pm)Sid Wrote: No umbrage, simply an apparent misunderstanding.
I thought you were saying that we should allow anonymous and temporary email services to be used for registration on TPB. We do, actually, except where they are excessively abused. And we won't be changing that policy.
If you are merely saying that other options exist, that's perfectly true. We won't be implementing them but they certainly do exist.
Indeed.
My main machine went down after a power spike (i was bertween changing batteries on the UPS) and I went to create new accounts here and at TPB using temp email accounts. (I had forgotten the old logins).
Here was no problem.
But at TPB it kept refusing to accept the registration, due to the email server.
But I eventually used another address from the same temp service, and all went fine.
I can well understand the potential for abuse here. One has but to look at UseNet where the game of whackamole has taken on a new meaning. A question arises, but best asked in another thread...