Anything related to the internet comes with cybersecurity risks. Torrenting is one of those online activities with an even higher risk profile, so anyone who does it must protect themselves adequately to balance the risks and rewards. Protection can be anything as simple as using a reputable torrent client to a more complex combination of VPNs and antivirus to ensure anonymity and cover potential security weak points.
Torrenting isn’t a new internet term or phenomenon. It was invented a mere 22 years after the dial-up internet was born because a college student got bored of the long wait time for downloading files from a different computer.
Although torrenting was created with the best intentions, it isn’t flawless. For one, when on a torrent network, your IP address is available to everyone else on the same network. This is a recipe for disaster as far as the .
