October 17, 2009 by sharky
Checkmytorrentip.com
New CheckmytorrentIP.com allows users to test their VPN or proxy to monitor if it’s successfully masking your home IP address in a torrent. The service is actually a torrent tracker that generates a unique .torrent file (with a secure passkey) for you to load into your home PC BitTorrent client to check & monitor which IP address is shown in the torrent - and thus every other torrent running in it.
If you’re using a VPN or proxy there are many ways your personal IP address can still be exposed. Monitoring your own torrent IP address will help you close holes in your security practices in order to better safe guard your privacy.
While anyone can easily test out their own VPN or proxy themselves (using an IP-revealing service such as WhatsMyIP), Check My Torrent IP offers long-term tracking of your IP. As long as you keep the torrent running in the BT client, back on the webservice they’ll report any changes in IP address that may have occurred (such as a dropped VPN/proxy connection or other anomalies). Detailed info is available on the site.
We also highly recommend you take a look at their FAQ - it provides a wealth of information on how to conceal your IP address properly, and how to secure your VPN or proxy connection.
SerialNumber.in
SerialNumber.in is a brand-new website for finding serial numbers for software, appz, games and the like. There’s already more than 1 million serials indexed, complete with a feedback/rating system for each. Popular searches are shown on the main page, but their coolest feature includes autofill functionality in the search strings, in order to hone in on specific searches before they’re even conducted.
Why SerialNumber.in is a winner:
- • Fast searching. Autofill performs as it should to provide accurate query results, although more generic (basic) searching works well, too!
- • No annoying ads. The site is clean, with no adverts and no unnecessary click-ins to receive serial numbers.
- • No Captcha. That’s right - just search and get your serial results, without having to jump through captcha crap.
- • Add your own. Visitors are able to add their own serials to the database for programs that aren’t listed.
FilePasswords.com
FilePasswords.com is a new database that provides a free feature to search for passwords in files that are downloaded from popular file-hosters. For example; you’ve stumbled across a file hosted on RapidShare, but after downloading it you’ve found the archive (ZIP/RAR) is password-protected. That’s where FilePasswords can come in handy - simply search for the file name (or even an exact URL) and perhaps FPS can come back with the required unlocking password.
Better still, FilePasswords also provides valid download links for a search query and the associated password for it - making it a decent search utility as well. The site works by indexing various DDL forums that tend to add their own special password to the DL links (lame tactic, we know - but one that won’t go away anytime soon).
From what we’ve seen in our search results, only RapidShare links are supported (so far). And you’ll have to go through captcha (at least once) to get to the password required to unlock the download. TIP: The password tends to be the name of the DDL forum from which the originating release was posted, so this provides the source of the files. Regardless you’ll probably still require the password anyways, which brings us full circle to why FilePasswords was created.
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