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05-06-05, 11:45 PM | #1 |
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Anonyminity
hey im kind of new to p2p and i was wondering if anyone knew
the anonyminity rating of some of the more popular p2p programs thanx in advance |
06-06-05, 02:51 AM | #2 |
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not an easy question , but i will try
ants,mute,waste
these ones have encryption waste is more for small groups of people that know each other (max:50) the others, i am not too sure about..pretty much the same i think but let you have larger groups but are only ever as secure as the group involved maybe missing one or 2 here freenet isnt a p2p app..but you can run one from inside freenet theres stuff like DC(direct connect) and IRC that can be quite secure but dont really use encryption any of the public networks like fastrack,gnutella1&2, edonkey..etc are well....public your IP is avaiable to whoever is on there using peer guardian or protowall with the public networks will only filter out known malicious IP's..but i thinks its not a bad idea to use either of these great programs and the latest blocklist that being said..the internet wasnt really designed for anonyminity for a transfer of data to work it has to find the IP of the machine to send it to.. proxy servers are one way people mask their ip but you can pay for that with connection speed unless you pay out some money for a good one even then your anonyminity is in the hands of that server operator there are bound to be more and more public network scams that claim to give you anonyminity or that you will be safe(r) somehow if you pay them some fee for it but these are just free programs and flog by scammers...be wary keeping your computer free of trojans,adware,spyware and other virii..helps keep you off the radar..imo |
06-06-05, 11:07 AM | #3 |
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As Multi mentioned, ANts and MUTE are open networks designed to provide IP number anonymity with a smart, organically inspired routing method. Also Filetopia is worth mentioning here. Their approach is more straightforward, based on anonymizing middleman (proxy) nodes that they call 'bouncers'.
It's hard to rate the anonymity quality of these programs as their stealth capabilities depend on factors like the number of people in the network, the size of files being shared and of course the type of attacks (see for e.g. this article). MUTE and ANts are probably your best choices anyway today if you want to remain anonymous while filesharing - the downside is that these networks don't have yet much content nor are they fast. - tg |
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