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Originally Posted by avantman42
I didn't phrase myself very well. I believe he tethered his Kindle, I'm very sceptical about his claim to have used it as his main internet connection and downloaded 46GB over it. I'd have expected Amazon to limit connections to ports 80 & 443 for a start, which would prevent bittorrent (which he claims to have used). He may be telling the truth, but I'm sceptical of such claims from some anonymous source on the internet.
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There are a number of HTTP proxy solutions that hide any kind of traffic inside innocent-looking HTTP web traffic. The technical issues are relatively easy, but it is the MORAL issues that are hard (especially for people who choose to be dishonest).
One of these methods is to use Tor (The Onion Router). Although discouraged by Tor users because it wastes Tor bandwidth, bittorrent traffic can be proxied through Tor, so it uses port 80 and looks like normal web browser traffic. And why would somebody who steals 3G bandwidth care about how badly he is abusing Tor with his torrent traffic?
Script kiddies are often very dedicated and resourceful in their efforts to steal what they want.