What worries me most about the NSA fibre issue...

Re:What worries me most about the NSA fibre issue... by jiggy2011 on Monday June 17, 2013 @10:51AM (#5893492)

Just an FYI, encrypting your uTorrent downloads won't stop you getting busted if you are down/uploading copyrighted material.

Regards MiTM attacks, yes they could but then again they always could. It wouldn't be 100% undetectable though since they would have to change the key/cert for sites they wanted to MiTM. Certificate pinning may address this issue in future.

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Re:What worries me most about the NSA fibre issue... by 1337biz on Monday June 17, 2013 @11:41AM (#5893796)

Just wondering: Does MiTM work the same way for VPNs as it does for "regular" connections? Like if I am in country X and connecting to a VPN in country Z, does that impact the MiTM possibilities?

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Re:What worries me most about the NSA fibre issue... by jiggy2011 on Monday June 17, 2013 @11:56AM (#5893897)

Depends if you are using the CA system or preshared keys to verify the VPN.

OTOH PPTP has it's own set of security problems.

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Re:What worries me most about the NSA fibre issue... by josscrowcroft on Monday June 17, 2013 @11:18AM (#5893655)

> encrypting your uTorrent downloads won't stop you getting busted if you are down/uploading copyrighted material.

Could you elaborate? Assume you mean using a VPN service while downloading.

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Re:What worries me most about the NSA fibre issue... by eminon on Monday June 17, 2013 @11:36AM (#5893763)

From what OP said, I understood he meant turning on encryption in the bittorrent client, not using a VPN.

Turning on encryption is a way to work around bandwidth throttling and deep packet inspection, not a method to protect your identity or activity.

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Re:What worries me most about the NSA fibre issue... by thesmileyone on Monday June 17, 2013 @07:04PM (#5896549)

Yeah, just the "Forced Encryption". First layer, just to stop my ISP flagging me straight away.

I don't use a VPN, I probably should use a Seedbox or something, not in my name and paid for in cash, but I don't do it often enough to be bothered...yet.

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Re:What worries me most about the NSA fibre issue... by atto on Monday June 17, 2013 @11:21AM (#5893672)

He most likely meant encrypted data transfer, which it built into many torrent clients.

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Re:What worries me most about the NSA fibre issue... by jiggy2011 on Monday June 17, 2013 @11:57AM (#5893899)

I meant just encrypting transfer of torrent data.

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