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I was thinking about the ethics of downloading the other day. Had some interesting thoughts....

Def NOT gonna try this out. Bruce Fee is prolly right.

shlammed

a little paranoid are we?

shlammed

what are you afraid of?

they're some company working for the RCMP and FBI?

That out of thousands of users they're going to focus on what you use their service for and rat you out to the powwwlice?

gimme a break

anyways, if anyone is having connection issues with speed or disconnects, check out the forums

there are tips on how to fix it

imported_viper_2_4

Well because his issue was an ethical one, I don't imagine that his big concern is with the police.

I wouldn't do something like this for security reasons...

imported_Bruce Fee

I don't give a **** about the FBI or RCMP.

I do my banking online. I purchase online.

You're essentially tunnelling through them to get to where you want.

This isn't new technology. We did this at my last work 4 years ago to see if it would get us through the company firewall. We set the server up at my friend's house to tunnel through.

It's essentially the same thing as XBOX connect.

You are going through someone and you are letting them know exactly what you are doing.

Xscorpio

imported_gatherer

I completely agree

imported_Bruce Fee

that's because you're not stupid.

shlammed

sorry

did you not understand my previous post that said "you don't have to do any of that stuff while connected"

as in

only use the VPN tunnel when you need to download something from a bit torrent?

noones telling you to stay connected 24/7

shlammed

shlammed

and who the hell said it was new technology

imported_Moe_Mentum

Exactly.. I don't see the problem with this. I would only use it for downloads off of news servers or Torrents. If your worried about a company knowing exactly what your doing on the net then you should be concerned that your ISP already knows exactly what sites your visiting (Or atleast they can check)

imported_Bruce Fee

all you're doing is adding another point of faulty security to your connection.

Unless the install for this is open source, how do you know what is actually being installed on your PC?

shlammed

Are you implying that they may have some sort of backdoor in the program or something?

Because you do realize that you aren't installing ANYTHING on your PC to begin with, right?

All you're doing is creating a VPN connection to vpn.secureix.com by going to control panel > network connections > make new connection.

There is no software involved.

If Rogers already knows that I use Bit torrents what do I care if these SecureIX people do too.

imported_Moe_Mentum

Is there an actual install? From what I've read its simple adding a VPN connection to your computer through windows and connecting to that VPN... No software involved.


I see your point though Bruce. There is really no reason to trust this company. Even though it prevents your ISP from seeing what your doing, then they obviously can. I wouldn't be so foolish as to think I could download as much pirated software as I wanted just because I am using this VPN. Nothing is stopping them from passing on this information to authorities.

shlammed

it's only required for bit torrents because of throttled bandwidth

you dont need to use it for any regular downloading

I personally don't use Bit Torrents much either way but if I did theres no way I'd sit there and let it run at 5k/sec.

Xscorpio

newsgroups FTW!!!

imported_Moe_Mentum

^^ Yeah definetly going to try it with newgroups since my ISP no longer offers it. Curious to see how well the retention is on their newgroup server

Xscorpio

well the one i am with i pay for it, and trust me it is so worth the 15 bucks US, one account and 3 of us share it ever 4 months next guy pays it, and it gives us 10 connections with unlimited data transfer.

it uploads as fast as you can download, so when i am in school i get 9-10 MBps.....will post SS soon.

Xscorpio