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The internet provider on my dorm explicitly allows legal torrents (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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[–] 66 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah college networks are one of the biggest ones I would not trust unless I had a VPN going. Average computing? Perfectly fine. Naughty things? VPN up

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you don't use the VPN for normal things then you leave yourself open to indentification by correlation. It's the same rule for naive Tor users. The more normal and distributed it appears in traffic, the harder it is to correlate other pieces of data they they already have access to.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago

    indentification by correlation

    Not in my college. They have plenty of IP addresses to not use NAT, i.e. every user gets their public IPv4, and authentication is done with WPA2-Enterprise, i.e. unique login.
    Everything is immediately traceable.

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