Site Offers History of Torrent Downloads By IP 340
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Soulskill
from the exposing-the-obvious dept.
from the exposing-the-obvious dept.
tsu doh nimh writes "You may have never heard of youhavedownloaded.com, but if you recently grabbed movies, music or software from online file-trading networks, chances are decent that the site has heard of you. In fact, you may find that the titles you downloaded are now listed and publicly searchable at the site, indexed by your Internet address. So far, youhavedownloaded.com has recorded more than 50 million unique Internet addresses belonging to file-sharing users. The site is searchable by file name and by Internet address. When you visit, it automatically checks and lets you know if your Internet address is in the database."
Re:Geez, we're down to scare tactics now, huh (Score:5, Informative)
Zero results (Score:5, Informative)
I don't do anything out of the ordinary to otherwise secure or anonymize my downloading using either Transmission or Vuze, for what it's worth.
Re:indexed by your Internet address (Score:5, Informative)
Obscure, but I got it. [youtube.com]
Do take it seriously (Score:5, Informative)
From the "Contact Us" page (which, among other things, lists a postal address in an Antarctic research base):
This site is a joke. But its data is not.
Re:Facebook data harvesting tool (Score:4, Informative)
I know this is Slashdot and most people get it, but for those who don't -- this looks like a form of phishing to get your Facebook password. I'm not a security expert but I imagine they are using a man-in-the-middle attack to log your password while you log in.
This is probably exactly what parent intended to imply.
Re:Geez, we're down to scare tactics now, huh (Score:4, Informative)
Actually, they do. Click on Some files others have loaded, click on one of those files - takes you to torrent page.
Or type in name of software, click on link, click on software - takes you to torrent page.
Wow (Score:5, Informative)
1. They visit public tracker websites.
2. They query the tracker for a list of peers given a torrent hash (not difficult)
3. Dump all data into the database that can be searched through their website
That means your data is not on there if you're a torrent user because you're using a tracker they aren't indexing or you have a dynamic ip that they haven't categorized yet. In the same way this is why you can get false positives. All this B.S. about honey pots or fear mongering is dumb considering how straight forward this website is.
They just want your Facebook (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Honeypot? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Honeypot? (Score:5, Informative)
It looks like they scrape popular torrent sites like TPB and then list every address in the swarm. Problem one is that legal torrents are on there too, and problem two is that trackers list fake random IP addresses to make the data unreliable in court.
My home IP address is listed with torrents I never touched, and so is my mobile one. That is despite that fact that Vodafone blocks BitTorrent and I have never used it on my 1GB/month plan.
The whole site is a troll, clearly they either don't understand the data they are collecting or they are deliberately misrepresenting it.