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		russellsprouts on Aug 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership You could definitely use BitTorrent sync securely for personal use, like DropBox. The issues with illegal downloading are totally separate. If you are downloading a public torrent, you join a swarm and upload pieces of it to others, where they can see your IP address. If you are just syncing your files with it, no one else joins the swarm.

_b8r0 on Aug 5, 2013 | [–]

But the source and destination IP addresses of each system in the swarm are leaked in the IP headers. How does the protocol avoid leaks?

dragontamer on Aug 5, 2013 | [–]

I fail to see how this is any better than just using scp or rsync.

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