Reading https://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/04/08/very-precarious-narrative.html explains vulnerabilities to VPNs. I was aware of several of them, but some I wasn’t.
Are VPNs still useful for torrenting?
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You lost me in that middle part. Are there any further resources I can read to understand this better?
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Oh I see!
- Without port forwarding, you are a passive node that can only interact with active nodes but not other passive nodes.
- With port forwarding, you are an active node that can interact with everyone (active + passive).
- Passive nodes can upload/download but from fewer peers (only active nodes)
- Active nodes can upload/download but from everyone
