Paul Gil of About.com's Computing and Technology forum has posted a short tutorial on making Bit Torrent downloads more anonymous. He recommends using both Tor and Privoxy programs to scramble your IP address. The two programs together reportedly are about 80 percent effective at masking IP. Gil inclusdes download and installation links for Mac and Windows. The EFF provides a Mac tutorial here.
Tutorial: Anonymizing Bit Torrent Downloads
Reader Comments
(Page 1)3. I tried Tor/Privoxy a few months ago and ended up removing them because it was so slow.
Posted at 4:30AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Dan Bailey
4. Great if you want to download at 2kb/s, often less
Posted at 4:30AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Andrew
1. Sweet...now me and all the other paranoid freaks who download way too much "questionable" material will only need our tinfoil hats...
Posted at 4:30AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Toxic Bomber