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DogPizz:
Hi, it would be awesome if this site implemented HTTPS, now that we have the government given permission to spy on us, and the thing with ISP's blocking porn in the UK, and even the TOR network being exploited by the FBI.

Even if you are using a seedbox, the part where you browse the site and load the images (from bakashots) is unencrypted, letting your ISP and potential 3rd parties see everything you are browsing.

VPN's are good, but Steam doesn't like it when you use VPN's even if you're not using it to bypass pricing and region restrictions and there may be other programs that don't like it as well. Proxies work but not everyone has access readily to one and it takes a bit of extra work getting the links (especially into a seedbox etc).

Sites like TPB and Imgur have HTTPS, so I think this site would benefit from it, what do you guys think?

megido-rev.M:
I don't think this site based in the US?
Also, wasn't this idea brought up somewhere here?

DogPizz:
I just realized I posted this in the wrong section, was supposed to post to site feedback and suggestions.

Anyway, I did a quick search and this is all I could find: http://forums.bakabt.me/index.php?topic=18725.msg4306416#msg4306416, which was suggested four years ago, and I think it's a different matter as it's something to do with the actual torrent downloads.

Where the site is hosted is fine, but I was referring to the way we traverse the site via HTTP, this traffic has to go through your ISP, and they can see everything you browse such as the pictures hosted on BakaSHOTS and the torrent page unless you use a VPN or Proxy, but as I stated in the first post this is inconvenient and conflicts with some programs such as Steam.

But if HTTPs was implemented it will be like we are talking to the site in a code, and your ISP won't be able to figure out what we were saying  8).

Big Teeth:
When you are paranoid, then better disconnect from the Internet NOW!
BakaBT is just 0.1% of your daily routine (wild guess).
Increasing server overhead a lot to implement https, doesn't help you a lot,
you still need the other 99.9% https-ed (or whatever) too.
Accept the internet as it is (and will become). Or get another hobby.

Freedom Kira:
Yeah, I think if you're paranoid enough to worry about a site like BakaBT, which has never implemented any kind of encryption, when a clean majority of its users are Americans, you probably should stay off the Internet altogether.

Besides, encrypt the site if you want, but you can't easily enforce encryption in torrents, which are far more arrest-worthy than anything anyone could post on the site.

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