SSL Encryption Coming To The Pirate Bay

An anonymous reader writes "The Pirate Bay, in response to Sweden's new wiretapping law, will start offering SSL encryption to its user base this week. Although copyright issues really have little to do with national security, The Pirate Bay knows its population is uneasy with the recent legal change. The encryption will mostly benefit Swedish users living under the current law. Since The Pirate Bay and its servers are not hosted in Sweden, the additional security offered to outside users could be comparatively minimal."

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[WhatAmIDoingHere]

You're only download the actual .torrent file through the encrypted connection. All the downloading done with your client will go through your normal (unencrypted) connection. Unless you sign up for TPB's paid encrypted connection service.

A LIE!

[vivin]

The Cake is a LIE!