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How Much Can the Resurrected Pirate Bay be Trusted?

posted by janrinok on Thursday February 12 2015, @02:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the how-much-can-you-trust-anyone-online? dept.

sigma writes:

Several people have been warning users to avoid The Pirate Bay, due to CloudFlare integration and potential FBI IP bugs. There are even suggestions that the FBI has been involved in the site's somewhat mysterious rebirth.

Nobody knows who really runs The Pirate Bay, but the old moderation team were all removed as part of the relaunch. The Pirate Bay now allows people to 'report' malicious torrents instead of having a moderation team.

Some claim the FBI re-launched The Pirate Bay or had connections to the owners, implanting IP bugs on all torrent’s uploaded for investigation. The Pirate Bay has denied these accusations, claiming CloudFlare is only a temporary measure to help with the influx of traffic on the torrenting site.

CloudFlare is a cloud server provider, but is based in the US. Many privacy advocates claim CloudFlare is not a safe tool, due to the potential warrant-less searches from the FBI and other US agencies. On the topic of working with the FBI, The Pirate Bay has not responded, but TorrentFreak claims the accusations are "complete nonsense" but said that "general security concerns of using a US-based service are legitimate".

What does SoylentNews think? Is it wise to stay away?

 
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  • (Score: 2, Disagree) by CirclesInSand on Thursday February 12 2015, @03:45PM

    by CirclesInSand (2899) on Thursday February 12 2015, @03:45PM (#144174)

    Why would you feel the need to trust SoylentNews? Are you doing something illegal that you expect them to keep secret? Oh. Right. You can't tell me, can you?

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 12 2015, @03:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 12 2015, @03:59PM (#144183)

    Why would you feel the need to trust SoylentNews?

    Because I let it send me data to be processed on my computer by my browser. And the data could in principle contain any exploit that I'm not aware of.

    Note that you don't have to do anything illegal to become a target. For example, I'd not be surprised if every single nuclear physicist in the world were on the watchlist of the NSA, for the sole reason of being a nuclear physicist.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 12 2015, @05:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 12 2015, @05:28PM (#144232)

    Are you doing something illegal that you expect them to keep secret?

    You speak as if one has to do something wrong for their actions to about them to be used against them.