Thread: I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent….

Most people know that BitTorrent is far from anonymous, but seeing all your recent downloads listed on a public website is still quite a revelation. This is exactly what Youhavedownloaded.com does. The developers of the site want to make people aware of the public nature of BitTorrent, and are currently working on a more anonymous version of the leading file-sharing technology.

So what have you downloaded lately?
If you’re not using BitTorrent through a proxy or VPN, there’s a good chance that the rest of the world can see without asking.YouHaveDownloaded is a new Russian-based service that claims to track about 20 percent of all public BitTorrent downloads. However, they go a step further than just collecting IP-addresses and file-names by exposing all the harvested information to the public on their website.



People who visit the site immediately see their download history, as far as it’s available in the site’s database. In addition, they can also search for files or IP-addresses to find out who’s downloading what. At the time of writing the database has information on 51,274,000 users who together shared 103,200 torrents.TorrentFreak got in touch with Suren Ter, one of the site’s founders, to find out why they decided to create this spying tool.
“We just want to remind people that the Internet is not a place to expect privacy,” he says. “Nowadays many people use it without understanding what information they leave behind. Also, even those who understand choose to ignore it quite often.”



The Russian developers created the site partly as a wake-up call. Those who don’t want this kind of information to be public should take steps to anonymize their traffic, and do that right. This message is also reflected in the site’s ‘privacy policy‘.“Baby, this is the Internet. There is no such thing as privacy around here. You are sitting in the privacy of your own house, clicking links, reading stuff, watching movies. It may seem like you are pretty much alone, but smart nerds are watching you. They watch your every move. You are not human to them. You are a target — a consumer,” it reads.

Jokes aside, the site does indeed make people aware of the public nature of BitTorrent, something that can’t be stressed enough. Of course not everyone will be happy to see that their information is being exposed, so the developers also offer an option to de-list an IP-address.Apart from exposing download habits the developers are also considering the creation of a more private file-sharing protocol. They already have a theoretical concept based on Bitcoin’s technology, but a workable piece of software is still very far away.
“The general idea is similar to what Bitcoin does. The key is to have an anonymous and reliable identity for each peer, and a Bitcoin-like signature chain algorithm will help,” Suren said.

The developers are currently trying to find out how viable their idea is, and then they’ll decide whether they should continue working on it or not. For now, they’ll keep on tracking dozens of millions of downloaders, for all the world to see.

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First Of All , can you please change the font color on the article ? i had to highlight it to just read it .. secondly this program is flawed .. as long as you are using private trackers they can't track shit , well the torrents they list when i visit the site are no where near to what i have downloaded , lol .. even the seedbox comes clean over there :D

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Pretty arrogant bastards ...

... those three Russian guys, but from a technical standpoint, they have obviously outsmarted even private trackers, see API and database access | You Have Downloaded - We show what you downloaded -- and with the attitude they have, granting access to the records is probably just a question of money. It's about time the administrators, moderators and system operators of both private and public trackers concentrated on ensuring their members' privacy by stuffing those exploits and leaks, instead of all the bullshit about hit & run, ratio and other irrelevant nonsense they usually indulge their god complex in.

I like how they offer the remove me feature, of course you ahve to have a facebook account in order to remove yourself, so basically you are letting them know who you are without any addition work required by them (getting court orders to have your ISP hand over your account info and such).

Well, you are in the clear. But look what others do.

Seems like it doesn't work that well.

Like DX said, it must only be for public trackers.

It did found two files i downloaded months ago. Also I am pretty sure CCleaner or something like that would fix that.

"requests for removal" ... Naa.. They may keep it

Originally Posted by KYLLAH

It did found two files i downloaded months ago. Also I am pretty sure CCleaner or something like that would fix that.

They are probably just scanning the IPs of people downloading from sites like thepiratebay, so CCleaner won't help.

I don't used thepiratebay lol. I had two files show up both of which were downloaded at least a month ago.

Both files came from another public tracker, NyaaTorrents. None of the private tracker stuff showed up of course, had it done so I would have had at least 700+ on the list