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Torrenting exposes your public IP. In a country where government doesn't care, does that pose a risk? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by TheHooligan95@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I honestly don't believe I will have any legal trouble because I don't do anything like cp or worse, I just pirate media I like, not even porn. But across users of communities, or on public trackers, is IP exposure something to be concerned about?

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[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 6 months ago

A proxy operates on the application level; a VPN on the OS level. Both the VPN and the proxy are susceptible to OS-level threats. The proxy is also susceptible to application-level threats that the VPN is not. A misconfigured or exploited torrent client, for example, could ignore the proxy and expose your public IP. With a properly functioning VPN, that faulty application can only expose the public-facing end of the VPN tunnel.

[-] dan@upvote.au 1 points 6 months ago

A VPN can also have a faulty config. Everything depends on correct configs :)

[-] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The proxy is also susceptible to application-level threats that the VPN is not.

You sure about that? I mean, to use a VPN your need some kind of application that could potentially be vulnerable or have some zero day exploits.

In contrary, a proxy is as simple as to forward your traffic to another computer through a SSH tunnel which doesn't specially need some kind of application but only relies on lower level package.

Maybe I misunderstood your comment but If I'm wrong I'm agear to learn something new.