Comment on What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened?

• Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  it is a US military program, so yes, they run nodes as honeypots.

  this is way to valuable to be used against pirates though.

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  • SarahFromOz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yep. They wouldn’t want to show their hand too much.

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  • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The good thing is that it’s in the US military’s interest to actually keep it private and secure though.

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• iocase@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah you’re right and the only secure method I know of is Tor hidden services which never exit the network itself. Both you and the server will never know where the other is. It’s kind of like an anonymous dead drop in a park between a spy and their handler.

  I2p is another good system to use for torrenting as well it’s just slow as balls (might be better now?) but you don’t need a VPN for that either since it uses garlic routing inspired by Tor’s onion routing.

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