[mythtvnz] EPG a possible alternative

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 16:07:44 +1300, you wrote:

>On 23 October 2014 at 3:56:00 pm, Stephen Worthington (stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz) wrote:
>
>>Bittorrent protocol is *not* anonymous. The IP addresses of anyone 
>>connected via Bittorrent are easy to see in your Bittorrent software, 
>>unless you also use an anonymising service such as a torrent proxy or 
>>an anonymising VPN connection. However, Bittorrent Sync encrypts the 
>>data, so only people with the encryption key can see what data is 
>>being shared. I believe it would be possible for anyone to join a 
>>torrent and get a copy of the data being shared, but that copy would 
>>be useless without the key and they would not know what data they had. 
>>But all it would take would be for one person to give away the key, 
>>and then any copies of the data would be able to be decrypted. 
>>Somehow, I do not think the key would remain secret forever. 
>
>>There are Private Trackers for doing such things as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_tracker#Private_trackers

Yes, but that still does not hide your IP address.  All it takes is
someone on the torrent using torrent software that shares the torrent
some other way (eg via DHT) and it will then be public.  To be safe
when torrenting, you must use an anonymising VPN or anonymising proxy.
That is the only way to hide your IP address.