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Is it possible to stay anonymous when joining a private tracker community? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was just reading through the interview process for RED, and they specifically forbid the use of VPN during the interview. I don't understand this requirement, and it seems like it would just leak your IP address to the IRC host, which could potentially be used against you in a honeypot scenario. Once they have your IP, they could link that with the credentials used with the tracker while you are torrenting, regardless of if you used VPN while torrenting.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If that lemmy user was found out to have invited someone they didn't know, from a random website like lemme, then they would be banned and everyone they've ever invited would as well.

Other than being invited by someone who is already on the site and you know personally the standard way is to do the interview process. The interview is mostly questions about music quality and music files and serve to make sure that you can read and apply that knowledge so that they don't have to moderate as much if you try to upload shitty rips of music on the site.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Sounds reasonable