SecureIX Offers Anonymous BitTorrent Downloads

Written by Smaran on February 04, 2007 

A company called SecureIX is offering a free VPN service which allows you to hide your IP address from peers in a BitTorrent swarm or P2P network. Not only that, the service also encrypts and tunnels your data, making it extremely difficult for your ISP to sniff or shape it.

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SecureIX BetaSecureIX launched last year with almost no hype surrounding it. Even we only came to know of it recently. Why something so seemingly important went unnoticed, is unknown.

What SecureIX offers is a whole package of ’secure services’. An IMAP/POP SSL-enabled e-mail account with PGP encryption and 1 GB storage, Usenet newsgroup access, and an encrypted VPN service. All of this free for personal use.

Instructions to set up VPN access are sent to the e-mail address you get when you sign up with SecureIX. That way, there’s definitely no chance of anyone intercepting e-mails from the site to you.

A passage on the site talks about how SecureIX provides added piracy:

As soon as you connect to our VPN server your computer is assigned a new IP address, an IP address that is owned by us, not your ISP. Unless you are using one of our static IP packages there are no records that link a single user to the IP address. The IP address is shared by many users. Remote servers on the Internet that try to identify you by your IP address will fail.

What I don’t understand is why a company would give away a service like this for free. Although, the site reserves the right to change their policy in the future, their “current plans are to always provide a free service.”

But how safe is this free service? After all, they also offer Business VPN for a price, so it is a commercial service. And even if your ISP doesn’t have your data, it’s almost assured that SecureIX does, as you’re using their servers to tunnel. In this way, they’re taking over from your ISP. Great idea, but who knows if we can trust SecureIX any more than our ISPs?

Where SecureIX could really come in handy is if your ISP is blocking encrypted BitTorrent transfers. In Canada, Rogers is throttling all BitTorrent connections, encrypted or otherwise. BroadbandReports.com writes, “Rogers has updated Cisco traffic-shaping hardware to perform more sophisticated deep packet inspection to again limit BitTorrent bandwidth consumption. Some users are using VPN software SecureIX to get around the new traffic shaping efforts, with mixed results.”

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26 Feb 15, 2007 at 06:03 by Le Bishop

I tried this, but it slowed me down, and wouldn’t let me access some sites. Although it did disguise my ip address very well, I say it’s not worth it. You’re better of getting PeerGuardian.

27 Feb 18, 2007 at 16:05 by Manu

the server is hosted in the US, so there goes your privacy

28 Feb 20, 2007 at 22:46 by phodifoo

the valid point is the following one:
“there are no records that link a single user to the IP address”

aka NO LOG, and this is good

29 Feb 26, 2007 at 12:27 by Ouroborus

[quote comment="52875"]the valid point is the following one:
“there are no records that link a single user to the IP address”

aka NO LOG, and this is good[/quote]
This doesn’t mean “no log”, it instead means that any particular IP can be associated with multiple computers. Similiar to what NAT does for a LAN with multiple computers.

Specifically, it could be that if SecureIX were subpoenaed, SecureIX could say, “Here are all the IPs associated with the IP you’re asking about.” Admittedly, this is likely to make things difficult for lawyers.

30 Feb 28, 2007 at 09:46 by fit

duh… ever since secureix name come out in this article my account is getting problem,not as fast as before..i live in country that shape your torrent to death even with encryption or obscure or whatever is on.Even a new implementation have been used:detect the Tracker, you cannot connect to the torrent Tracker and render it useless.I’m better setup my own vpn server like this..i want to download my linux now..

31 Apr 06, 2007 at 10:31 by ezzy elliott

kerjodando (www.kerjodando.com) offers an anonnymous file sharing service usin Ant torrent technology. See http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8598/New+Guide+for+Anonymous+P2P

32 Apr 07, 2007 at 22:37 by Lucho

Someone has heard of similar free VPN connection around the net? I tried SecureIX and the connection is not so reliable, it hangs every 5 minutes… :-(

33 Apr 07, 2007 at 22:39 by Lucho

[quote comment="46183"]We provide a means to work around ISP traffic shaping. It’s assumed that users will use further encryption (file/pgp/ssl/etc..) on any service that needs extra security. We know that a good supercomputer could crack your traffic, but your average ISP can’t do it in real time, or even at all. Our logging is the bare minimum debugging information so can make sure there are no problems. I understand that you may not “trust” a third party, but we both know you don’t trust your existing ISP at all. We just add a layer of protection for your privacy.[/quote]

Hi, I’ve tried SecureIX service with uTorrent and using Windows Vista VPN connection and it hangs every 5 minutes. Do you have some information on related problems and solutions? Thanks in advance

34 Apr 08, 2007 at 04:37 by villain154

okay i understand i am a noob at this and am subject to being called gay, but i live in michigan and my isp is the one who is pulling the plug on my for even running utorrent. i just want to make sure that i dont have to forward ports or anything on utorrent setup. relakks was kinda vague, and like i said im new. and i dont want to have to pay a $50 startup fee if they catch me again.

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37 Jun 19, 2007 at 21:14 by greenvespa

VPN is nothing new to the corporate world and is starting to find its way to private users. That’s because it is extremely secure. More so than Tor! If you really want to under stand how VPN works take the time and read every section starting from the beginning.
http://www.anonic.org/internet-privacy.html

38 Jun 30, 2007 at 16:52 by whitesinner

thanks a lot this will help me out
keep up the good work..

PS try changing the background of the site because i can’t see the font’s of this background i had to highlight the word to see them..

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