How does a private tracker ensure that it hasn’t been compromised though? From my understanding they largely disallow the use of VPNs, although perhaps that isn’t true of all private trackers. Still, this user for example could be a bad actor and he was just given an invite code without any sort of check being done.
How does a private tracker ensure that it hasn’t been compromised though? From my understanding they largely disallow the use of VPNs, although perhaps that isn’t true of all private trackers. Still, this user for example could be a bad actor and he was just given an invite code without any sort of check being done.
It doesn’t. But some private trackers will hold you accountable for people you invite and request invites are given to friends/family only.
Most allow a VPN, AFAIK. Torrents are tracked via your secret key, not your IP address.