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if you torrent off of public wifi, in theory, would you not be caught? (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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if I went to a library or something, and torrent a file, nobody would be able to tell who it was as its a public place and the library couldn't be held accountable. thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They could also see your MAC address and lookup which vendor that MAC address matches to.

They could then use the cameras there to see who has a laptop that matches and possibly identify you that way.

I’d say if you are going to do it use a vpn no matter what.

They may still lock you out or block torrent traffic, or possibly block your vpn from working. So make sure the vpn kill switch is on in case it suddenly stops working.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

I doubt very much anyone would go to all that trouble to catch someone illegally downloading movies. Technically possible though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

damn. could you use a mac address spoofer?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

In this day and age everyone should be using a MAC address spoofer, especially on Public Wifi, many of them track mac addresses and impose limits based on time and data usage.

If you've ever been using public Wifi and noticed it got slow or stops working after a time, that's why. Some will even be up-front about it by asking you to pay for it after a time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

on windows, use tmac
on linux, there's one called macchanger...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah, depends on what os you are on tho

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don’t have experience with them, so I’m not too sure how they work or how reliably they work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Mainly I just use the one built-in to settings of Gnome, I never torrented on public wifi (most public wifi I've used is too slow to download without chewing up all the bandwith) but the MAC address randomizer seems to work very well, even with the ones that use timed paywalls (where they let you use it for a time then lock your MAC address out and ask you to pay).