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On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:59:52 +0800, Ceowulf <noneed@toknow.askifyoudo> wrote:

>Hey guys, I just wanted to pose this to you all as I know a lot of you 
>are far more knowledgeable about this sort of stuff than I (as I decided 
>about 6 years ago to give up the tech/programmer "ghost" :p)
>
>Is forcing your P2P program to encrypt its data sessions actually 
>worthwhile? For instance in UTorrent I have encryption set to forced, 
>but it seems to me that in todays day and age this would mean very little.
>
>I've got nothing to hide other than a few downloaded episodes, but I've 
>always been a security nut about information and data so it's something 
>I've been wondering about.
>
>On a slightly different but related note, and the reason I decided to 
>post this, has anyone here watched the series Reaper? Sounds like a lot 
>of fun and I'm looking for something to watch after my Chuck marathon 
>(great series :D).

There are several programs out there with extensive block lists to stop
various agencies from connecting to your computer running the P2P software. I
haven't used one of them for ages though since I bought a Cisco PIX as that
contains my block lists as firewall rules. Take a look at PeerGuardian 2.

http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/