The service says it has not logged network usage data its technology makes it "impossible for us to do so," TorGuard says. TorGuard acknowledges that "operating a VPN provider requires a great deal of trust from consumers and for that reason TorGuard’s owner and parent company make no effort to hide behind offshore entities." As such, it must "abide by all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations, and respect the intellectual property rights of others." This commitment to user privacy and service reliability is the reason we have taken measures to block Bittorrent traffic on servers within the United States." UPDATE: In a statement (Opens in a new window) posted on its website, TorGuard says that is has "a responsibility to provide high quality uninterrupted VPN and proxy services to our client base at large while mitigating any related network abuse that should arise. How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill.How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad.How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages.But that probably isn't what you wanted your Bittorrent client to send. Nobody knows where you're sending your IP address from. Tor is doing its job: Tor is _anonymously_ sending your IP address to the tracker or peer. The attack is actually worse than that: apparently in some cases uTorrent, BitSpirit, and libTorrent simply write your IP address directly into the information they send to the tracker and/or to other peers. The result is that the Bittorrent applications made a different security decision than some of their users expected, and now it's biting the users. Choosing to ignore the proxy setting is understandable, since modern tracker designs use the UDP protocol for communication, and socks proxies such as Tor only support the TCP protocol - so the developers of these applications had a choice between "make it work even when the user sets a proxy that can't be used" and "make it mysteriously fail and frustrate the user". The problem is that several popular Bittorrent clients (the authors call out uTorrent in particular, and I think Vuze does it too) just ignore their socks proxy setting in this case. These people are hoping to keep their IP address secret from somebody looking over the list of peers at the tracker. The first attack is on people who configure their Bittorrent application to proxy their tracker traffic through Tor.
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