Popcorn Time now has a free, built-in VPN

[TopWargamer]

Source: http://torrentfreak.com/popcorn-time-gives-users-anonymity-with-a-free-built-in-vpn-140607/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29&utm_content=FaceBook

 

One of the Popcorn Time forks has included a free VPN option in its software, allowing users to hide their IP-addresses from the public, This feature is a response to copyright trolls, who regularly send settlement requests to users who pirate movies via BitTorrent.

 

Popcorn Time is doing it right. They're saving users the hassle of getting a VPN to hide their BitTorrent activity within Popcorn Time, which is, quite frankly, a very good idea. Now pirates will be even trickier to track down via IP address. 

[AlwaysFSX]

Yay, I guess? At least it's a good idea they've implemented.

[solosdk]

You never know how safe the free VPN provider is. One will not know if the VPN provider will spill the beans to the authorities.

 

For true anonymity, it's best to use a paid VPN service.

[Misanthrope]

Holy crap that is nice, don't know how to top that unless they include a hardware add on to work as a blowjob dispenser. 

[ForsakenLive]

LOL, That made my day

 

on topic: That is really nice that they include that but the sad thing is popcorn time is not available in Turkey -.-

Use a VPN to download it

[LAwLz]

You never know how safe the free VPN provider is. One will not know if the VPN provider will spill the beans to the authorities.

 

For true anonymity, it's best to use a paid VPN service.

I agree, except the last part. a paid VPN could potentially reduce your anonymity.

 

 

Having a built in free VPN is not really that secure. It might be, and I suspect it is, a honey pot.

[mvitkun]

You never know how safe the free VPN provider is. One will not know if the VPN provider will spill the beans to the authorities.

 

For true anonymity, it's best to use a paid VPN service.

I agree, except the last part. a paid VPN could potentially reduce your anonymity.

 

 

Having a built in free VPN is not really that secure. It might be, and I suspect it is, a honey pot.

Kebrum is a paid service, they're giving that paid service for free via popcorn time. 

 

This revolution does come at a cost for the company, as it has to pick up the bills. However, Kebrum believes that the brand exposure will make up for this investment. The traffic shouldn’t be a problem for the company, as it has plenty of resources available.

review from VPNcreative.http://vpncreative.net/vpn-providers/kebrum/

 

 

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[Snickerzz]

You never know how safe the free VPN provider is. One will not know if the VPN provider will spill the beans to the authorities.

 

For true anonymity, it's best to use a paid VPN service.

paid vpns can spill the beans too... and your not 100% anonymous with a vpn anyways..

[cacra]

paid vpns can spill the beans too... and your not 100% anonymous with a vpn anyways..

You are not 100% anonymous with anything to be fair.

[LAwLz]

You are not 100% anonymous with anything to be fair.

Tor

It wouldn't really work with Popcorn Time though.

[SirNumbers]

What are the chances of me getting into legal trouble using this?

[Snickerzz]

You are not 100% anonymous with anything to be fair.

yea you are, it takes one simple step

[DoubleY]

AFAIK VPN's don't block P2P. 

 

So this is kind of irrelevant. 

[Rekx]

Time4Popcorn.eu i dont really recommend anyone using that service

 

Time4Popcorn is a piece of software that i do not recommend. We have several reasons for that, but on this moment we have created an other topic on my subreddit /r/time4popcorn to outsource the discussion from here to there. On this moment, Time4Popcorn is not dangerous (moment of writing). But that could change of course, we recommend choosing another piece of software. If you want to know more, please click the link below.
Some things to note when you choose to install Time4Popcorn.
- Time4Popcorn has stolen most of its code from our amazing contributors on discuss.get-popcorn.com. (Without giving credits).
- Time4Popcorn has disabled all coding exept for the nodewebkit, they refer to a server to watch movies. This server's code can be taken offline, be made into a honeypot for the feds or to steal your bankaccount. Simply because the code is just like a website. And you install that on your pc. Installing Time4Popcorn could lead to many bad things, because you install only the nodewebkit for streaming and the rest is only shown by using the website: app.time4popcorn.eu

 

 

Link to these threads: 

 

http://www.reddit.com/r/time4popcorn/comments/24a7qd/why_time4popcorn_is_incredibly_dangerous/

http://www.reddit.com/r/PopCornTime/comments/232xmf/a_list_of_popcorn_time_clones_and_android/

 

Also that VPN logs data

[topsu]

Tor

It wouldn't really work with Popcorn Time though.

 

Tor is not 100% anonymous.

[LAwLz]

Tor is not 100% anonymous.

Define "100% anonymous".

It is anonymous in the sense that the packets you send are very very difficult to trace back to you (assuming you also block JS/other security holes like Flash and don't reveal yourself by posting with your real name and such).

[martinrox1568]

Define "100% anonymous".

It is anonymous in the sense that the packets you send are very very difficult to trace back to you (assuming you also block JS/other security holes like Flash and don't reveal yourself by posting with your real name and such).

While difficult, tor isn't impossible to trace, just time consuming

[LAwLz]

While difficult, tor isn't impossible to trace, just time consuming

No, not time consuming, pretty much impossible in some situations.

Someone has to own all relays in the chain for it to work, and you can pick which relay to connect to. Just pick them from different countries and it will be impossible to track (unless they break the encryption for all the relays).

 

I wrote about how it works in this post. It should give a clear understanding of why it is so secure and private.

Of course it is in theory possible to track it in certain situations (or by brute force) but it is also in theory impossible to track if used correctly (other than brute forcing layer after layer of encryption).

[martinrox1568]

No, not time consuming, pretty much impossible in some situations.

Someone has to own all relays in the chain for it to work, and you can pick which relay to connect to. Just pick them from different countries and it will be impossible to track (unless they break the encryption for all the relays).

 

I wrote about how it works in this post. It should give a clear understanding of why it is so secure and private.

Of course it is in theory possible to track it in certain situations (or by brute force) but it is also in theory impossible to track if used correctly (other than brute forcing layer after layer of encryption).

I'm well aware of how it works.I meant time consuming as in finding each relay. And time consuming isn't the best of words I could have said. brute force is a better word. And, even though connections are encrypted once you're in the onion network, it's possible for snoopers to see where traffic enters and exits the network, and from there, it's possible to connect the dots and identify the user and the user's destination. 

[LAwLz]

I'm well aware of how it works.I meant time consuming as in finding each relay. And time consuming isn't the best of words I could have said. brute force is a better word. And, even though connections are encrypted once you're in the onion network, it's possible for snoopers to see where traffic enters and exits the network, and from there, it's possible to connect the dots and identify the user and the user's destination. 

I am not sure where you got that quote from, but while it is true, it isn't just that simple. Yes, it is possible to *maybe* figure out who is sending what if you own both the guard relay and the exit relay, but that's why it connects to multiple guard relays, and why it is recommended that you pick relays that are in different countries.

 

That's why the police had to rely on things like the founder of that drug site posting with his personal email to catch him, instead of just tracing him through Tor.

The risk of being tracer through Tor is extremely small. Of course it's not impossible, but it is so small it is basically impossible in practice. Again, that's why the police have to rely on things like security holes in Firefox/JS, or people revealing personal information.

[martinrox1568]

I am not sure where you got that quote from, but while it is true, it isn't just that simple. Yes, it is possible to *maybe* figure out who is sending what if you own both the guard relay and the exit relay, but that's why it connects to multiple guard relays, and why it is recommended that you pick relays that are in different countries.

 

That's why the police had to rely on things like the founder of that drug site posting with his personal email to catch him, instead of just tracing him through Tor.

The risk of being tracer through Tor is extremely small. Of course it's not impossible, but it is so small it is basically impossible in practice. Again, that's why the police have to rely on things like security holes in Firefox/JS, or people revealing personal information.

I'm just saying, eventually this will be cracked. Either a virus will be implanted in a relay, and allowing it to transmit to others, or some other form 

[LAwLz]

I'm just saying, eventually this will be cracked. Either a virus will be implanted in a relay, and allowing it to transmit to others, or some other form 

A virus in a relay would not work for the same reason as one malicious relay can't do anything. Because nobody except your own computer knows the full circuit

RSA, which is used for establishing the short session keys will be cracked (hell we can already brute force the weaker implementations of it) but there are so many layers it will still take quite a long time to break through them all (and it is continuously being upgraded).

 

The theory behind Tor itself is bullet proof. It will never be cracked. User errors, exploits in the browser or if you connect to only malicious relays are the 3 cases where Tor won't protect you. None of them is the fault of Tor itself.

 

Anyway enough about Tor. The thread is about VPNs and I wouldn't be surprised if the built in one is a honey pot. If what someone said earlier in the thread about them admitting to logging users then it's not even a well disguised honey pot.

[dinaafifi]

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[GzeroD]

Holy Necro man this thread is over a year old and nearly a year dead.

[GzeroD]

lol what good VPN does if NSA can just acces it.

I would think the NSA is not responcible for reporting if you are watching game of thrones.

Also I don't think they have stolen many CC numbers over public WiFi.