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Creepy Site Claims To Reveal Torrenting Histories (iknowwhatyoudownload.com)
Slashdot reader dryriver writes: The highly invasive and possibly Russian owned and operated website IKnowWhatYouDownload.com immediately shows [a] bittorent download history for your IP address when you land on it. What's more, it also [claims to] show the torrenting history of any specific IP address you enter, and also of IP addresses similar to yours, so you can see what others near you -- perhaps the nice neighbours in the house next door -- have downloaded when they thought nobody was looking...
There is also a nasty little "Track Downloads" feature that lets you send a "trick URL" to somebody else. When they click on the URL -- thinking its something cool on Facebook, Twitter or the general internet -- THEY see what they URL promised, but YOU get sent their entire torrenting history, including anything embarrassing or otherwise compromising content they may have downloaded in private... The website appears to offer an API, customized download reports and more to interested parties in the hopes of generating big cash from making other people's torrenting activities public.
It's not clear whether this site is really revealing the information it claims to -- or whether it can filter out the fake IP addresses provided by many downloaders. But putting that aside, it does raise an important question. Is it technologically possible to build a site that tracks and reveals torrenting histories based on IP addresses?
There is also a nasty little "Track Downloads" feature that lets you send a "trick URL" to somebody else. When they click on the URL -- thinking its something cool on Facebook, Twitter or the general internet -- THEY see what they URL promised, but YOU get sent their entire torrenting history, including anything embarrassing or otherwise compromising content they may have downloaded in private... The website appears to offer an API, customized download reports and more to interested parties in the hopes of generating big cash from making other people's torrenting activities public.
It's not clear whether this site is really revealing the information it claims to -- or whether it can filter out the fake IP addresses provided by many downloaders. But putting that aside, it does raise an important question. Is it technologically possible to build a site that tracks and reveals torrenting histories based on IP addresses?
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There is also a nasty little "Track Downloads" feature that lets you send a "trick URL" to somebody else. When they click on the URL -- thinking its something cool on Facebook, Twitter or the general internet -- THEY see what they URL promised,
And of course, it delivers malware that because you're trusted to the recipient, they'll infect their PC with, thus introducing a new vector in addition to the compromised ad servers and malware delivered via email...
I very much doubt that the reason this site was created was for the reasons laid-out in the article summary.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Just type in your IP address, why not narrow down their target list.
Didn't realize this information was readily available.
Here's "my" list: http://iknowwhatyoudownload.co...
Of course, that IP address is just a shared VPN endpoint used by who knows how many people. And sure enough, if you read the site they admit that they can't separate people on shared IPs, behind NAT, on dynamic IPs... So basically 99% of internet users are indistinguishable from each other on their site.
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Next thing you know large companies will be tracking your browsing history by leaving 1 pixel images scattered around the Web!
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Wow! This is incredible.
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Seems they missed most of them. I imagine it depends on which tracker you use.
This is utter bullshit, I just tried it from my cell phone, and according to the list it gave me I would have used up my plan several times over just in the last week.
I torrent through tor. That is, I torrent shit on a machine that has absolutely no access to any network except through tor. Are other people stupid? Because this exists, I assume, "yes".
Yes, obviously.
Next question?
As a heavy torrenter with 12 currently active torrents and over 100 magnet downloads in the last month (and a few equally active roommates), this site produces no history for my IP. Whatever they're displaying, it's not what they claim it is.
Apparently nobody using this IP address has ever downloaded anything over torrent, or the website is complete BS.
Long time ago he was doing the typical clueless searching google for "free movies" on his Windows machine and it was generally self limiting because the malware he would get would cripple his system. So I told him, "Dude, let me install Ubuntu for you and teach you how to use Transmission." Well, I created a fucking monster. In 3 months time he's already exceeded the capacity of a 4TB drive, and is well on the way towards filling up a second.
I checked the site and it only returns a handful of the torrents which are definitely some of what he downloaded, but showed only a handful of the dozens of torrents he's participated in. Also, all of them appear to be the relatively popular torrents, too. So the database of IP/torrent correlations are for sure not exhaustive.
Most home users have dynamic ip addresses, so it'll just show whatever the person who had your ip address earlier was downloading.
It doesn't show any of the few torrents I downloaded from home. It doesn't show any of the *many* torrents I downloaded from the dedicated server I rent to do that. Thanks for letting me feel safe :D
downloaded from the most evil torrent sites in the world and that russian website showed that i downloaded nothing
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I just tried this site, and it did in fact know of one download that I did like a month ago. But I have downloaded several more files since then, and it knew nothing of those.
Also, the other day I came across a similar site which appeared to have even more information about my downloads. But I did not think to bookmark it.
From a technical point of view, it is rather easy: you just set up a fake torrent peer which connects to various trackers and obtains peer lists, without actually receiving anything from them or sending anything to them. All it needs to do is record the IPs of the peers.
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It has where I downloaded raspian for a rasp pi, and an Android rom for my phone. I don't think anyone who knows anything about how torrents work would be too surprised to know anyone else downloading it can see all the peers. Might be an eye-opener for people who don't.
It didn't get a single torrent correct even with about 3,000 being seeded from a test IP.
The more time goes buy, the wiser it is to try to use a VPN for as much traffic as one can. For example, ipredator.se is one good place, swissvpn.net is another. As an even better precaution, run your torrents in a VM, and roll back the VM to a known good snapshot after you copy the files off. This way, an attacker not just has to figure out the link from the source IP range to the real place, but then there is the target box which will have no residual information.
I struggle to find new and interesting things on the internet, but not any more!
The first of my "neighbors" IP addresses led me to Milftoon.com (NSFW, and not linked) which is totally what you think it is.
Knowing everyone else's download history will make it easy to discover new and interesting things to see.
Thanks, iknowwhatyouupload.com! You've saved me so much time.
Good luck with a VPN.
There was a site like this up several years ago called youhavedownloaded.com. There was a big to-do when people started plugging in IPs allocated to record labels and movie studios, and found that those people were pirating tons of shit.
Thanks to the War on Drugs, it's easier to buy meth than it is to buy cold medicine!
So, I'd guess they've penetrated a tracker or two. When you enter an IP, it will list everyone in the same x.x.x.255 subnet who they have data on. It seems to average about two IPs with data per subnet near me. I went through about 50 of them and found exactly one downloading anything other than run-of-the-mill TV or movies. Our country is a LOT more boring than the media would make it out to be.
it's not working, i download TB of torents a month, it shows nothing
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For if you want to read a real report on this site. They actually do real journalism by contacting the company who made the site and actually communicating with them!
https://torrentfreak.com/i-know-what-you-downloaded-on-bittorrent-161223/
I use Russian trackers all the time, but this site didn't get a single download right. Looks like they simply fake the list shown.
...and then linking straight to it anyway, for the sake of a bit of filler? Leading the readers to what is probably a malware-infested site at BEST for a bit of filler?
Fuck Slashdot.
I doubt it...
It literally didn't show anything for me and I'm pretty sure I've downloaded a few things.
I guess they got blocked by my IP filter... or they just don't monitor the things that I actually download.
They didn't list any of the ascii "art" I downloaded in high school.
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Put in the IP address of the **AA, some D.C. ones, and those Prendalaw attorneys (trolls), and see what comes up.
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I know, I've been there, and I have been to me!
There is not much to see there. It didn't list any downloads for me even though I use public torrent trackers continuously (for legitimate purposes). I live in a large city and the most some of my 'neighbors' had was a music video and some asian tv show, I'm pretty sure there is a LOT of things this thing is missing.
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I have torrented a metric buttloadover the years . and it shows that I dont have anything.
so either the bogeyman of "your ip address is giving you away" is bogus as it disappears rapidly after you stop seeding, or I am a frigging expert at hiding without doing anything at all.
I'm betting that IP addresses disappear rapidly and unless you were torrenting in the past 60 seconds you wont show up.
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I've got several dozen torrents running, it's aware of 2
Just tried it on Wal-Mart's Wi-Fi. They were closed on the 25th and I mean nobody in the store closed. Says people downloaded stuff then. Lol. Used my brand new phone that has never had and torrent stuff on it lol.
1. Put up site claiming to have knowledge of 'illegal' activity by IP
2. Attract those with something to be concerned about who visit to confirm or refute their fears
2a. Bingo, a self-triaged list of targets pops out ready for further investigation.
2b. Sell to MAFIAA
3. Profit!!!
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I did a "neutral" search - (Russia and IP addresses). The only thing I got was an offer to mask your IP address. Nothing negative. So.. Words are what you use when you want to start a fight with someone. Wars start that way too. Miscommunication, antagonizing, and vilifying are all the first step to start a war. Remember the "Axis of Evil" said by a famous person. Well.. Stuff like that does not make you new friends - it generates hate. This world is like a powder keg right now, and any type of bad words to other countries does not help!
It thinks I'm in Canada. (I'm not in Canada.)
Did not bother to click it; the summary and the many comments saying "it doesn't work" make it sound like the site itself is click bait.
The big Hollywood movies are on them, usually. Just open Chrome's network traffic and look for the largest file ending in MP4, then download using curl.
On top of that, youtube-dl works with some websites like ok.ru and some Chinese social media sites.
Good thing Cox keeps changing my bloody IP address every few days.
Is it possible to block tracking using PeerGuardian?
They want people interested in the website to get people to go to it and in turn infect as many computers and phones as possible because curiosity killed the cat and that poor, older, trusting guy that thinks FB is "neat."
IP addresses are not people. Further hundreds of millions of home computers and equipment are vulnerable if not already compromised at any particular moment. Your history of web sites or torrents can be 99.999% true which will make the foolish and senators fearful. But computers can and do function as relays. So they and others can make it seem like you have a fetish for grandma bondage porn.
And this means Russians can be hacked too. Their statement:
AN IP IS NOT PROOF. YOU CAN'T PROVE ANYTHING.
I can only hope that something happens online where someone famous is publicly framed only to be cleared so this point is shoved home in the minds of the lay public.
When did the MPAA move their honeypot to Russia? Did I miss something?
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Reports I've downloaded Game of Thrones in the last 24 hours, never downloaded it, never seen it, don't use torrents and I've had the same static IP for many years. Seems a little broken to me.
I have downloaded several linux ISO's in the last few days just to see where things are at with several distros (I don't read reviews until I've actually tried the new versions).
I saw not one link. And I have had a torrent of one kind or another downloading or seeding at least once a week.
HAHAHAHA!!! DOesn't work! I've torrented before... But now I do a lot of dark web sites and news group searching... Still, should shown at least a dozen distros and other files I've torrented in the last year
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I don't think it can tell if you actually downloaded content, I think it can only tell if you've downloaded a .torrent file. So far as I know (or are concerned) a .torrent file by itself isn't any sort of copyright violation.
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I have a bittorrent server for legal Linux and BSD ISOs. It's never been used for anything else. It's had that static IP for 5 years. It reports 10 of my 30 legal ISOs. It also claims I downloaded some porn video and something called "ST_170_TOOL_SO_XML_1.0.0.4.cab".
My guess is the false positives are a scare tactic to get people to buy VPN services. But it's seeded with enough real data to look slightly legitimate.
It shows recognizable activity of two out of five days in the last week. So I know it is not up to date, and shows 10 out of maybe a hundred torrents. (But it does mark my IP address as 'Likes p_rn', so in that respect it is spot on.)
> But putting that aside, it does raise an important question. Is it technologically possible to build a site that tracks and reveals torrenting histories based on IP addresses?
of fucking course they can "build a site that tracks and reveals torrenting histories" it's the internet, everyone knows what you're up to. Especially peer to peer activity where you are literally blasting out your IP to anyone interested. Now, it would take an impressive infrastructure to track and record a significant amount of data (i suspect their data set has few false positives but is very limited) but we will see how long their site lasts. For me, they only show a fraction of my torrent activity (with no VPN or proxy blocking my activity).
This is the glimpse to the intelligence operations, basically a tiny tiny fraction of what NSAj, and many other agencies, do. Basic data trawling operations.
Yes, only selected torrent sited were melt into the honeypot, which means if you shared torrents of boxing matches of the racing hamsters, from specialized websites, your torrent is not included.
If somebody is using VPN, yes, IP will be shared by many users, however there are additional fingerprints left by facebook/cookies/instagram/email and you have a unique fingerprint.
Now those Russians. They are trawling all the data, and keep all the data, so that when they have target an intelligence object they would have some compromising data to be used. Ten years ago Russians filmed you in your hotel room with the prostitute and kept the footage for their private collection. Just in case.
They still film you in your hotel room. In addition to that they also keep your download history and they can customize for you next time for your taste (they will know that you like tall, brown eyed, blondes, for example).
My seedbox gives empty list, maybe it just doesn't work for users with higher than 1TB/day traffic.
Didn't know I downloaded so much midget tranny mermaid porn.
I'm on a static IP and I torrent a lot of current season anime, and the list was EMPTY. I guess I'm just not one of the cool kids.
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It correctly identified both Linux distros I seeded in the last year.
It showed nothing for my IP and yet I regularly torrent various Linux distros. And a few other things.
I could have sworn it was Trolltrace.com
Uses browser cookies or something.
I put in a static IP of amassive private tracker and it found nothing.
As it happens I have a database that contains the IP addresses of many of my friends since they hit and authenticate with a server of mine. One of these folks is an older teen and has shared their account with their father who I know is not exactly someone I think much of.
Now, most of my friends are either very tech savvy or not tech savvy at all but this guy is just the sort I can see using Torrent software via word of mouth to download who knows what. I caught him cheating on his wife based on computer forensics I did for her and some network traffic tapped on their network at her behest. This guy is no super genius with computers for sure. Sure enough, the IPs of my friends all come up clean with this Russian service except this one guy. I laughed at some of the crap he's apparently been torrenting! You can certainly get a feel for someone's p0rn tastes based upon what they download!
I may have to warn him, gently, but in the meantime I'm laughing my ass off! :-) I can only imagine what would show up if someone input the exit point of a TOR node or of a VPN service!
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So when I first went to the website it did show anything. But I tried the similar IPs and found one with files I had downloaded. What's really weird is that there is another download that I didn't do nor do I think anyone else in my family did. It occurred three hours before my download. I'll check their computers for BitTorrent and the file later.
by clicking on them. :-( They need to add that functionality so you can download interesting stuff that turns up in the list!
It is forbidden by Russian law to collect, and especially sell, users' private information without consent. So, if it is real, they are breaking the law and penalty is one user complaint away.
The tracker data is public, anyone can request what peers there is, you even see how much they have completed of it, how much upload and download etc.
More than 3/4 of the stuff listed for my IP are things that I've downloaded.
Also I'm certain there was a similar site to this that launched a couple years back, I remember the results from that one were hilariously inaccurate though.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
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I decided not to use vpn so that "they" can have my torrent history.
I'm sure that they will like what they see.
While downloading, I've always pondered in my deep thoughts...
How much are tax payers paying the division of FBi/Home Land Security to watch people downloading and downloading from torrents.
** Before the DMCA laws of MPAA/RIAA, I've never downloaded. I used to always buy my CDs and DVDs.
** I don't really use the content that has been downloaded and downloaded from torrents.
** They have tried numberious times to try to see what content i was watching, reading, viewing after downloaded BUT, found nothing.
** The sake of downloading, not to play with them, BUT, just trying to think and watch.
** Maybe I will put my own products online for people to download and track their torrents.
*** If i put my products online for people to download, I think the lawyers would ask. Why did U put it on the torrent for them to download in the First Place. Thank U.
*** FYI Torrent/Torrrenting is not a Blog. It's not a news site. Its not a chat room, It's not an IRC site.
** If u put food on a platter in public, people will eat it. If you put your products for torrenting, people will download from it.
*** FYI Torrent/Torrrenting is not a Blog. It's not a news site. Its not a chat room, It's not an IRC site.
*** If i put my products online for people to download, I think the lawyers would ask. Why did U put it on the torrent for them to download in the First Place.
Didn't download much during December - consequently only shows a single torrent.
Because my employer is also my ISP and we don't give a shit about American lawyers, these tickets that urge the ISP to warn or punish the user (or forward his details) just get deleted ;-)
Nobody has every presented a court-order.
You get these mails usually only when you download complete seasons of "hot" TV series - or a very new cinema-blockbuster.
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I looked at the site. It showed I downloaded two movies since the middle of December. I only downloaded one of the movies listed, but in the same time frame have down loaded, probably, 20 movies from the same IP. The listing also showed my IP as originating in Michigan and belonging to Ford Mo. Co. I am not in Michigan and I have a Google fiber IP.
That would be more likely to end in a virus than barebacking Paris Hilton.
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