Privacy has always been a major concern for BitTorrent users and there are only a few ways to remain anonymous. By using a secure connection, as the new TorrentPrivacy tool offers, you can bypass almost every firewall or traffic shaping application, while making sure that nobody can see what you're downloading.
… it be a virus, trojan horse or worm, adware, badware or scamware, most Internet users are familiar with the notion that some software …
… says the notice. “If you paid for it you have been scammed.” uTorrent is indeed freeware, but over the years untold thousands of … bought freeware, they tend to shout loudly about being scammed. Indeed, in the early days there could have been little doubt that was …
… picked up on our most recent unveiling of yet another scam. Some good quotes from the article titled “Piracy: are we being …
… to the site were redirected to rapid-downloads.com, a scammy pay-to-download service. Aside from the main site, all subdomains, …
… as can be seen from the screenshot below The whole scam was run by an outfit calling themselves the ICCP Foundation and now, … Krebs, we can see what kind of money was involved in this scam. Last year, thousands of documents were leaked from Chronopay, Russia’s …
… to another matching online profile, which could enable scammers to build up a more detailed profile of individuals they wish to target. “A scammer could use this information to build a profile of a person and then …
… sites. As a result, aXXo has grabbed the attention of scammers, the mainstream press and even documentary makers. TorrentFreak …
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Left Quote“The Pirate Bay has been one of the most important movements in Sweden for freedom of speech, working against corruption and censorship.
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