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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) by bradley13 on Thursday February 12 2015, @05:49PM

    by bradley13 (3053) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 12 2015, @05:49PM (#144238) Homepage Journal

    Er...well, yes, but I don't need to trust SoylentNews. I store no sensitive data here. I post more-or-less under my real name, on this public forum, so there's really no trust required.

    FWIW: I expect that the people are entirely trustworthy, but - as you make clear in a backwards sort of way - the fact that they are located in the US means that anyone would be foolish to store sensitive data here, or to attempt any sort of real anonymity. If the US government wants their data and their records, then it gets them, unless they are willing to risk jail for a principle (and probably even then).

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  • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday February 13 2015, @02:36AM

    by Reziac (2489) on Friday February 13 2015, @02:36AM (#144468) Homepage

    At least in the U.S., we *know* they're collecting our data.

    In other countries, you might not know it's happening.

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