The BitTorrent based news network is media distribution of the future

TL;DR : A newly launched news network is basing its entire existance on using BitTorrent as its infrastructure and primary live distribution channel. Will the subconscious result be more important then the…

The Trouble with CloudFlare

Wednesday, CloudFlare blogged that 94% of the requests it sees from Tor are “malicious.” We find that unlikely, and we’ve asked CloudFlare to provide justification to back up this claim. We suspect this figure is based on a flawed methodology by which CloudFlare labels all…

Using Info_Hash OR Torrent Hash to download torrents

There are many ways of downloading torrents and this is one of them.

info_hash is the 20 byte sha1 hash of the encoded form of the info value from the meta info file. Note that this is a substring of the meta info…

Why use VPN for Torrents?

Well guys, most of you know about a Virtual Private Network (VPN), and how it works. And all of us know about torrent and how to download it from a torrent client. But today, I am going to post a new question to you.

The Question

Encrypted public contact discovery

One of the main challenges of building people-friendly federated messaging is contact discovery. In early years of Internet people manually build there contact lists and it was fun: asking friends, sharing contacts and starting messaging somewhere. In 2015+ there are…