Swarm 1.4 will have Orbot/Tor support for unrooted devices
by Matt
The next version of swarm will support Tor by means of an app available in the Android market called Orbot. Orbot creates a local proxy on your device which tunnels traffic through many nodes (other computers) to make web traffic more private and less traceable. If your device is already rooted, you can route your bittorrent traffic through the Tor network using only Orbot. After the 1.4 release of Swarm, even unrooted users will be able to take advantage of Tor.
I’ll let post more on features of version 1.4 of swarm soon!
Do you plan on adding the ability to limit the maximum number of connected peers? I’m sure it would help in preventing my phone from screeching to a halt where only a forced reboot would fix it.
Any updates on when the new version is expected to be released?
I released Orbot support in 1.3.5 this week instead of 1.4, so it’s available now.