Peertube: Concern about "About" page telling people to use Tor.
The "About" page contains this blurb:
If you want to keep your public IP address private, please use a VPN or Tor.
However, Tor project explicitly tells people to not use BitTorrent over it:
File sharing (peer-to-peer/P2P) is widely unwanted in the Tor network, and exit nodes are configured to block file sharing traffic by default. Tor is not really designed for it, and file sharing through Tor slows down everyone's browsing. Also, Bittorrent over Tor is not anonymous!
Should the "or Tor" part be removed?
milleniumbug
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Also, Bittorrent over Tor is not anonymous!
I don't think the vulnerability concern as depicted in the 2010 paper is valid anymore, as it was mainly an implementation problem, on a whole different protocol stack (UDP). Please correct me if I'm wrong.
But as for the concern of slowing down the Tor network, it can be said of any connection meant to share voluminous data like videos.
rigelk
on 20 Jun 2018
In fact Tor browser disables WebRTC so you don't use P2P with it, just WebSeed.
Chocobozzz
on 20 Jun 2018
@Chocobozzz then we should be more specific and say "Tor Browser" instead of just Tor
rigelk
on 20 Jun 2018
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I don't think the vulnerability concern as depicted in the 2010 paper is valid anymore, as it was mainly an implementation problem, on a whole different protocol stack (UDP). Please correct me if I'm wrong.
But as for the concern of slowing down the Tor network, it can be said of any connection meant to share voluminous data like videos.