Look folks find yourselves someone who uses a product such as OpenVPN. Using a service like this or another that harnesses a ‘closed’ 128 bit encryption is like free diving in the ocean while coating yourself in fish blood. Yes there is a chance you won’t be ‘exposed’ but you are broadcasting what you are doing. Combined with the inherent DNS leak and keys to the ‘backdoor’ provided to The Powers that Be, you may get your 3 minutes of fame on your way to court.

You get what you pay for with security!

Is anyone else having this problem?

yea i saw that text file on a few shares so i just deleted them lol

But you should be able to open a connection with other people though, so it only really slows down the ramp up time.

Basically install a firewall, disable sharing and require a login.

I poked around a couple of computers and it seems some good samaritan is passing out the word with text files so Ill leave it at that.

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Connecting my MAC Leopard was a piece of cake using their Howto guide which has now been withdrawn. Ubuntu 9.04 connects ok but I can’t get Firefox to use the connection. In Leopard there is a box to tick which tells it to route all connections through the VPN. I will try the Ubuntu Howto’s referenced above to see if they help.

The difference is that with this service you are “tunneling” your network connection through their server, such that it will appear to other BitTorrent users as if you are coming from a different IP address, whereas with your approach you are directly connecting with your computer but denying access to people on the PeerGuardian list.

The risk with using a service like this is twofold. First, all your BitTorrent connections through the service are visible to the people running the service (much as all your communications through your ISP are visible to your ISP), so you have to trust them not to track your activities. Second, all your OTHER connections through the service are visible to the people running the service, so if you’re configured to route all your Internet traffic through there (such as happens by default with some VPN implementations) they could watch your other Internet usage, such as what websites you visit and possibly your e-mail in transit.

This doesn’t mean that they WILL watch what you do by any means, but you should be aware that the possibility exists any time you use a VPN you don’t control. Really, this just seems to swap one uneasy uncertainty (are people on your torrent monitoring you?) for another (is the service you’re using to hide monitoring you?)

“MAC Support is not available at the moment due to authentication issues.”

Every user, can see your PC if you are not using a firewall. They can also see your Sharing folders.

See pictures here:
http://www.gbetsis.com/posts/security-hole-in-itshidden-com.html

What are the chances of them choosing “Port 80 Limited” as their name when there is another notable “Port 80 Limited”?

They are doing it to confuse those who quickly read or are unaware of whats going on.

As someone said, they could easily be selling our IPs to the RIAA or other anti piracy groups.

I guess most of you guys missed the terms of service:

“In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to our website, for whatever purpose.

You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to us the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or us or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

We reserve the right to edit or remove any material submitted to our website, or stored on our servers, or hosted or published upon our website.

[Notwithstanding our rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, we do not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, our website.]“

There really is only one real use for a service like this. I give it a few weeks before it gets sued by the RIAA… or taken over by a major Government…

RT
http://www.anon-web-tools.tk

**NOTE: We are a Limited company Registered in the Seychelles and are in no way connected with Port80.com or the UK company Port 80 Limited.

“Hi Mike

No – this has nothing to do with us at all, and they are most certainly

*not* Port 80 Limited as they claim to be.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention

David Scholefield”

it stinks of competition