u/lukmly013 đź’ľ (lemmy.sdf.org)Oct 7, 2025

The internet provider on my dorm specifically allows legal torrents

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/43681242

Show threadMk23simp
The Big Brother energy of that “We Can See You” eye in the middle is pretty high.
Oct 7, 2025 at 9:01pmWeb
Show threadScrubblesOct 7, 2025
Yeah college networks are one of the biggest ones I would not trust unless I had a VPN going. Average computing? Perfectly fine. Naughty things? VPN up
Show threadFunwayguyOct 8, 2025
If you don’t use the VPN for normal things then you leave yourself open to indentification by correlation. It’s the same rule for naive Tor users. The more normal and distributed it appears in traffic, the harder it is to correlate other pieces of data they they already have access to.
Show threadu/lukmly013 đź’ľ (lemmy.sdf.org)Oct 8, 2025

indentification by correlation

Not in my college. They have plenty of IP addresses to not use NAT, i.e. every user gets their public IPv4, and authentication is done with WPA2-Enterprise, i.e. unique login.
Everything is immediately traceable.

Show threadArckaOct 8
You shouldn’t need to pay for a VPN to prevent your ISP from seeing whether your torrent is public-domain or not if you’re using TLS.
Show threadMicrowOct 8
I mean, it’s an open “heads up” so better that than not informing their students at all