Re: How much latency do you add to torrents?

Chris <[email protected]> Sun, 8 Dec 2024 09:40:42 -0000 (UTC)

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Oliver <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Dec 2024 21:51:47 +0100, D <[email protected]> wrote 
> 
>>>> Saving magnet links takes me under a second. Too quick to notice.
> 
> That's not what I had meant by latency. 
> Copying & pasting a magnet link takes milliseconds at most.
> Then you wait.
> And you wait.
> And you wait some more.
> 
> That's called "latency".

Nope. That's called a delay. 

> You add random latency to the time BETWEEN when you grabbed the magnet.
> And the time you employed that magnet link inside a bit torrent client.

You do?

> Of course, you change your IP address between those two times also.
> But if there's is a short latency, they can easily figure which was you.

Who are "they"?