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I'm not too familiar with the inner workings of P2P technologies of torrent and magnets, but is "snooping" possible with magnet downloads ? Like in the case of
by hardik988 14y ago
I'm not too familiar with the inner workings of P2P technologies of torrent and magnets, but is "snooping" possible with magnet downloads ? Like in the case of torrents, MPAA often hops on to a tracker, doesn't send/receive any data, but all it does is log the public IPs of all peers on the tracker. Is this a problem with magnet downloads as well ?
- nddrylliog 14y agoDefinitely. See http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4055215 http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4055215. Magnet links don't protect you, they're just a simple and standard way to refer to a torrent. Thankfully, an IP address can't identify a person: http://torrentfreak.com/ip-address-cant-even-identify-a-state-bittorrent-judge-rules-120515/ http://torrentfreak.com/ip-address-cant-even-identify-a-stat...
- larholm 14y agoMagnet links are just a shortcut for getting the .torrent file, everything else still applies.