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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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