…versus the 1-2GB of incoming traffic.
I dont even use a vpn :3
What’s the equivalent of a culture shock in this case? Jurisdiction shock?
I have yet to see anyone busted for torrenting media or programs in my region.
If isp’s spent all that time litigating users, they’d lose customers. Mind you, with the obvious shift to no hardware ownership and mandated software backdoors, maybe it will change.
It’s interesting: pro digital privacy advocates swear up and down that tor should only be used for whistle blowing or activism against authoritarianism, and pro media sharing advocates say that for is the safest way to share.
It seems to me, the more people are torrenting, the more tor traffic, the safer it is for everyone.
Better to torrent using I2P instead of Tor though.
0 peers (maybe 1 if I’m online)
Blame it on the TV spying on you.
They know. Unless you run some advanced stuff they can tell the packages match the frequency of torrenting.
Of course, but for all they know, I’m only torrenting Linux ISOs. Which is obviously the truth.
What does frequency mean in this context?
In any case, they could also run an AI and do pattern recognition to identify exactly what is being transferred. Too bad my VPN doesn’t yet provide DAITA as a separate package that can be installed on a router…
Size and timing of packets. Protocols generally have consistent patterns, so say always 6 packets with the last 3/4ths filled. Then some keepalive at regular intervals (i.e. tracker updates), establising new peer connections, …
Luckily this deep inspection is illegal for isps in the eu.Russia, China, and Iran are using the patterns to effectively block all normal VPN and proxy protocols. There, people need special tools that send fake packets, randomize timing, and split and group packets into different sizes. All of course decreasing speed and increasing latency.
For UDP you’d also usually reencode packets as http3 warp ones so it looks like a video call.
Then the other end needs the same tooling to restore the normal packets.Obfuscating it would be possible if necessary, but it’s better when you aren’t forced to maintain such an obfuscation stack.
Luckily this deep inspection is illegal for isps in the eu.
Luckily one of the most populated police states in Europe didn’t trick idiots into voting to leave the EU or anything…oh wait.
Said state was already a surveilance nightmare (even more so the digital kind) well before that as shown in the Snowden Revelations.
Cries in tea :'(
Obfuscating it would be possible if necessary, but it’s better when you aren’t forced to maintain such an obfuscation stack.
I’d be delighted if my VPN provider provided even an obfuscation layer that I could use on my routers, but alas…
For UDP you’d also usually reencode packets as http3 warp ones so it looks like a video call. Then the other end needs the same tooling to restore the normal packets.
Is this similar to when you mask it as webrtc?
Luckily this deep inspection is illegal for isps in the eu.
As per the GDPR or something else?
There, people need special tools that send fake packets, randomize timing, and split and group packets into different sizes. All of course decreasing speed and increasing latency.
Something other than DAITA?
Nah, they likely see that all over the place with infected devices throughout people’s homes acting as bot farms.
Lol I didn’t even consider that. But you’re right. You mean like less tech savvy people who installed “m4lware remover x3000” and became part of a DDoS attack?
or random apps on their smart TVs and phones
and usually, the way non-tech people solve a problem like this is to just throw money at it … money like in buying a higher tier internet package because their internet was too slow.
There are a lot of crappy routers out there that don’t even give you a way to monitor how much bandwidth each device is using.
Give those residential proxies something to work with!
I wish they knew how that’s EXACTLY the same thing as trying to extinguish a fire with oil 😂 With all due respect, of course 🙏
