Cops in India are now tracking torrent downloads to catch pirates

and how can a VPN be compromised? used a service hosted in sweden where data privacy laws are very strong. i use ipredator. they do not keep user logs. complete privacy. i was earlier using hidemyass but they have to keep logs as they are based in usa. stopped using them.
 
So to answer the question: Can a Virtual Private Network be penetrated? Just like any security implementation, the answer is yes. Just like a bank with a sophisticated security system can be robbed, so can a secure Virtual Private Network. If a group of hackers is bent on penetrating your system, they are likely to be successful if they spend enough time and resources on it. But then, why would a group of very skilled hackers be so bent on hacking into your connection?

seriously? you expect our government to 'hack' VPN client servers and install a monitoring agent there? what i am saying is that our ISP cannot monitor our activities in a vpn session. our government cannot monitor it as well. it is an encrypted channel which is completely private.

the vpn service i use is from the people running the pirate bay. i can safely say that they take user privacy seriously than most other companies.

if you want complete privacy on the internet, the only safe way is to disconnect your computer from the internet and shut it down. that is probably the only way government cannot compromise your online activities. (of course, they can invent it for you in case they really want to get you)
 
well it is also possible for government to come to your house with a search warrant and take away your computers in the name of national security. i guess it is time to encrypt your local hard drives as well. but yeah, what is the point... even that can be broken using supercomputers running for months and years if not days.
 
I am interested in knowing how exactly did they obtain the ip addresses?

In July this year, the anti-piracy cell arrested Abhilash from Thrissur while he was illegally uploading the film Snehaveedu on the Net
How the frick did they manage that? Arrest him while he was uploading? Reminds me of this:
The IT Crowd - Piracy warning - YouTube
 
Well it is pretty darn easy. ain't it? You get the torrent. you run it on your machine. you get access to tons of IPs connected to the same torrent. you just need to locate the users connected to that ip. If someone is seeding a newly released movie. it should be easy to get his IP from the seeding list and find him through his ISP.someone on twitter said we should turn on encryption. encryption does not hide your ip from other peers. bittorrent is very leaky when it comes to ip addresses of the users.
 
well it is also possible for government to come to your house with a search warrant and take away your computers in the name of national security. i guess it is time to encrypt your local hard drives as well. but yeah, what is the point... even that can be broken using supercomputers running for months and years if not days.


well i am not a vip in cyberspace, so i am safe i guess:laugh:
 
try downloading a recently released south indian movie on your computer and you become an instant terrorist in the eyes of cops being paid by the movie financiers.
 
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