Design and administration of a website

In addition to the posts relating to running a webserver from your broadband Internet connection these are my posts related to website administration in general:

• Analyzing  web server logs
• CMS - Content Management Systems (Software)
• The Legal implications for your ISP - w.r.t. running a webserver on your broadband connection.
• The personal information held by ZoneEdit - a DNS service
• The selection of a DNS service
• Remote administration of a webserver using VNC

How do I stop my ISP seeing my torrents

•  All pages relating to torrenting and downloading from file-sharing sites - P2P
• How you ISP can tell what you are downloading
• AP2P Organizations
• BTGuard TorrentPrivacy Review
• Does Blocking Peers help?
• Choosing a VPN service

 
Your ISP will know that you are torrenting irrespective of what steps you take to mask your activity.They may not know what you are downloading but the sustained download has a distinct signature.

Even if you use a VPN service that uses encryption (tunneling) the signature of your activity will be such that your ISP will know what you are doing. The encryption will only prevent them knowing WHAT you are downloading.

It is not the ISP who detects or cares what you are downloading,  it is the copyright holders that detect you when your IP address appears as part of a P2P seed-pool. The copyright holder then contacts your ISP as they have logged the fact that you are providing parts of their media. Your ISP may or may not have provided the APO with your IP address, this depends on the ISP.

In my case the copyright infringement letters are forwarded to me by my ISP who hopes that I will abide by their End User Agreements, which say that you are not allowed to download copyright material through your Internet connection.

Services such as BTGuard are likely to be blocked by large ISPs such as Rogers Cable and Bell Sympatico.

BTGuard and TorrentPrivacy now blocked

It looks like word has finally got out to the major ISPs that they should block these two services.

As they are the two most popular methods to download from P2P networks and avoid detection by copyright holders it makes sense that they would be candidates to be filtered out by the ISP firewalls.

As there are many VPN services that may or may not allow torrenting using their services, it does mean that they would be a far bigger target for the ISPs to block.

• The in-depth analysis of BTGuard and other techniques to avoid detection whilst downloading.
• BTGuard Vs. TorrentPrivacy  

My pages on Torrenting and P2P:

•  All posts on this blog relating to Torrenting
• Anti-P2P Organizations
• The "Six Strikes" proposal

The TAC Shop

Maybe it is because that I am a bit of a pacifist, any enterprise that presents itself in this way should be target for criticism.

It could be a North American, good old boy, NRA (or the Canadian equivalent) thing, I am NOT A CANADIAN or North American by culture, but this is just not right (IMO).

OneWorldOffice - Private Militia stuff

The term "Red Neck" comes to mind.

Terry Bradshaw, TBU Security Solutions Inc.  at the same address in Kelowna, BC

and, is there a connection between Terry Bradshaw and Wayne McAlpine?

TheTacShop was run from the same address as Zemana - not that there is any conclusion to be drawn here apart from there as a connection as they both seem to have been represented by OneWorldoffice.

AV Paranoia and FUD

• All pages relating to Anti-Virus software on The Technology Muse 
• A comparative study of A-V software

I am pretty much of the opinion that a lot of what the vendors of A-V and other computer security solutions tell you is in a large part FUD.

In a technological world the issue of security is one that there is a lot of spin! Due to the lack of understanding of what is actually going on - the paranoia of the masses runs rampant.

It would seem that a lot of folks are afraid to cross the street, let alone use their computers to actually  do anything useful. Still, it all makes work for the vendors of operating systems, software and schemes to keep us all safe!

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Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson

Now this, in 2012, could be seen as a "blast from the past", but these two were masters at FUD