Can someone get my real IP if I am torrenting with a VPN? Is there any risk?
No. Nothing is completely anonymous. And yes, there is risk. It’s likely significantly much smaller than you imagine, but it’s there.
VPNs do not provide foolproof anonymity, it’s all about who and what you are trying to protect yourself against. A VPN will not provide anonymity against well resourced adversaries, but against less motivated/funded adversaries they may be enough.
https://www.dnsleaktest.com/ and https://ipleak.net/ . Here’s a great link for Linux open source torrents, save you the time googling them all.,
A VPN can hide your IP, but it’s not 100% foolproof. If the VPN drops, or if it’s not set up right, your real IP can leak. Make sure to use a good VPN with a kill switch and double check for any leaks.
Well there’s ways they can find you even with a No Log VPN.
Avoid using sites from Microsoft or Google and Facebook and any site you basically have to log into using your current VPN address when downloading a Torrent.Tjese sites can link your VPN and timestamp to you.
You need a VPN that doesn’t have source IPs logging to their dynamic IPs (DHCP). Visit r/VPNTorrents
ISP They may not saw the content or context of what you’re doing or downloading but they could saw abnormal bandwidth usage. And they may know it was torrents traffic by its pattern.
Tor (onion or orbot) is hardest to track because it connect mutiple server and random to new one, but it was very slow
Yes,if not have set network interface in client can be problem,qbittorrent fix that problem
There’s hardly any risk. Just don’t download any of the big no no’s like child porn and US government secrets. Other than that, no company is gonna pursue charges or compensation for any copyright infringement unless you’re distributing the content.
If you’re so broke you can’t afford to buy the music or videos, then there’s little chance anyone is gonna be interested in suing you.
NOTE: I do not condone any illegal behavior.
People are still downloading torrents?
If someone was interested enough: They have the IP of a specific VPN node that downloaded a torrent. They can search for all ISP IP addresses that accessed that same VPN as a client.
That will narrow it down quite a bit. Other methods could narrow it down even further.
Really depends on the relationship between the US and the country where your VPN service is hosted. If it’s in China and Russia you’re probably safe. If it’s hosted in California, then it comes down to how much you trust your VPN provider to not hand that info over to the feds.
Here’s what the feds see without VPN assuming g they’re monitoring torrent sites →
- torrentfile A from IP address A (Lincoln, NE) - you
- torrentfile A from IP address B (SLC, UT) - user B
- torrentfile A from IP address C (NYC, NY) - user C
- torrentfile B from IP address A (Lincoln, NE) - you
- torrentfile B from IP address B (SLC, UT) - user B
- torrentfile B from IP address C (NYC, NY) - user C
- torrentfile C from IP address A (Lincoln, NE) - you
- torrentfile C from IP address B (SLC, UT) - user B
- torrentfile C from IP address C (NYC, NY) - user C
Likelihood of getting busted is how much you’ve downloaded and legality of the content. A judge with a warrant could get the ISP to tell them who exactly owns the IP address.
Now when users are using VPN:
- torrentfile A from IP address A (China) - VPN proxy
- torrentfile A from IP address A (China) - VPN proxy
- torrentfile A from IP address A (China) - VPN proxy
- torrentfile B from IP address A (China) - VPN proxy
- torrentfile B from IP address A (China) - VPN proxy
- torrentfile B from IP address A (China) - VPN proxy
- torrentfile C from IP address A (China) - VPN proxy
- torrentfile C from IP address A (China) - VPN proxy
- torrentfile C from IP address A (China) - VPN proxy
No Chinese company is going to hand data over to a judge in the states. But there’s always a digital trail, the question comes down to who you’re willing to trust knowing what you are up to.
obviously, feds can subpoena a vpn company to begin tracking you.
I see this exact post every single day:joy:
The risk is the VPN provider getting raided by the feds pretty much…
But more likely the VPN provider itself is shady. I mean I hate Comcast but at least I know what they will do with my data, VPN providers aren’t regulated and can literally do anything they want!
And what would be enough for everything? How can I be completely anonymous?
How do you check for leaks?
Most VPN are not based in the US or in countries that are not friendly with the USA regarding Internet privacy.