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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?
(Score: 2) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Thursday February 12 2015, @04:41PM
I've always been wary of Cloudflare. It's a pervasive service that gets between you and the web sites you want to visit and can aggregate profiles of where you've been. Sounds scary. It's like the opposite of the Internet, a central proxy service that tracks network traffic. What are they doing with all their network traffic data? Does anyone know?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 12 2015, @05:59PM
> Does anyone know?
Anyone who knows for sure if CloudFlare is doing something nefarious definitely isn't going to disclose it because they've got millions of dollars in stock options riding on not disclosing it.