nsane.forums Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 So what have you downloaded lately?If you’re not using BitTorrent through a proxy or VPN, there’s a good chance that the rest of the world can see without asking.YouHaveDownloaded is a new Russian-based service that claims to track about 20 percent of all public BitTorrent downloads. However, they go a step further than just collecting IP-addresses and file-names by exposing all the harvested information to the public on their website.People who visit the site immediately see their download history, as far as it’s available in the site’s database. In addition, they can also search for files or IP-addresses to find out who’s downloading what. At the time of writing the database has information on 51,274,000 users who together shared 103,200 torrents.TorrentFreak got in touch with Suren Ter, one of the site’s founders, to find out why they decided to create this spying tool.“We just want to remind people that the Internet is not a place to expect privacy,” he says. “Nowadays many people use it without understanding what information they leave behind. Also, even those who understand choose to ignore it quite often.”The Russian developers created the site partly as a wake-up call. Those who don’t want this kind of information to be public should take steps to anonymize their traffic, and do that right. This message is also reflected in the site’s ‘privacy policy‘.“Baby, this is the Internet. There is no such thing as privacy around here. You are sitting in the privacy of your own house, clicking links, reading stuff, watching movies. It may seem like you are pretty much alone, but smart nerds are watching you. They watch your every move. You are not human to them. "You are a target a consumer" it readsJokes aside, the site does indeed make people aware of the public nature of BitTorrent, something that can’t be stressed enough. Of course not everyone will be happy to see that their information is being exposed, so the developers also offer an option to de-list an IP-address. Apart from exposing download habits the developers are also considering the creation of a more private file-sharing protocol. They already have a theoretical concept based on Bitcoin’s technology, but a workable piece of software is still very far away.“The general idea is similar to what Bitcoin does. The key is to have an anonymous and reliable identity for each peer, and a Bitcoin-like signature chain algorithm will help,” Suren said.The developers are currently trying to find out how viable their idea is, and then they’ll decide whether they should continue working on it or not. For now, they’ll keep on tracking dozens of millions of downloaders, for all the world to see. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaindc Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Hi. We have no records on you.This means you are using a private torrent tracker or, of course, you may not be a torrent user at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtmulc Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Hi. We have no records on you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcani Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 that's it?my record have only one in it?!the anime Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere ep.5I expect lots of entries there since I use tor. everyday (ranging from animes to H-anime/manga)must be the trackers XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 No entries for me either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apcmiller Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Free and clear....just proves you need to be at least semi-careful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nima Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Clear here, ;)Nice site, thank you. ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonar Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 They dont see me :DI'm not behind a proxy or vpn. Just "ut" IP Filter.Ive downloaded well over 5000* films within the 15 years of using torrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mara- Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 I don't know how they expect that this will be accurate. My ISP changes my IP address every 24 hour, and it will never show records for me or it will show somebody else. Anyway, I only use private trackers.Cheers ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweety.Abd Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 It shows wrong records for me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaimor Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Ive downloaded well over 5000* films within the 15 years of using torrent.Hmm, how is that even possible?"Programmer Bram Cohen designed the protocol in April 2001 and released a first implementation on July 2, 2001."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29You may have used it for 10 years... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambrocious Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 They don't have anything on me either...luckily. Just use PeerBlock for "SOME" protection against this sort of thing. Or use Usenet services. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonar Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Ive downloaded well over 5000* films within the 15 years of using torrent.Hmm, how is that even possible?"Programmer Bram Cohen designed the protocol in April 2001 and released a first implementation on July 2, 2001."http://en.wikipedia...._%28protocol%29You may have used it for 10 years...always one trying to be a smart cookie ;z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
implague Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 unfortunately they got me :rant: but they are showng only two files downloaded yesterday and the funny thing is i didnt downloaded those files :nono: :fist: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captcha Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 unfortunately they got me :rant: but they are showng only two files downloaded yesterday and the funny thing is i didnt downloaded those files :nono: :fist:agree on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kojootti Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 They don't have anything on me either...luckily. Just use PeerBlock for "SOME" protection against this sort of thing. Or use Usenet services.Pssst... Peerblock won't help you a bit if they're able to SNIFF the traffic on a public tracker(s),that doesn't work on a private tracker unless theyhave an account on the site.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KotaXor Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 The list is all wrong, files which I did not download.Come to think of it...dynamic IP address which changes often.So it could not be me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avitar Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 <a href="http://www.youhavedownloaded.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.youhavedownloaded.com/scareme-728x90.gif" width="728" height="90" /></a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jalaffa Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I can see what my fellow users on my shared seedbox have been downloading from public trackers (pretty boring stuff :D ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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