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smallerize on Jan 14, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Obama calls for municipal broadband

If you use a tracker, anyone on that tracker can get your IP address. Not to mention querying the DHT and busting everyone with a matching hash. I once downloaded a file with all the encryption buttons checked (Deluge interface) and some enforcement agency still sent a warning notice to my ISP with my IP address.

bduerst on Jan 14, 2015 [–]

Couldn't that be because they seeded the file to directly?

smallerize on Jan 15, 2015 | [–]

I hadn't thought of that. I'd forgotten to install the "Blocklist" plugin for Deluge and configure a list.

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