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Hey there,

I'm pretty new to the usenet/sabnzbd scene and I'm glad that I "discovered" it. Living in a country where my government doesn't like what I could be doing with sabnzbd and search warrants have been issued on the sole factor of the data volume transferred I'm kinda spooked and I want to have Maximum Privacy.

That said, I'm already using SSL, sabnzbd and my downloads stored on a truecrypt partition and a new separated e-mail adress for my usenet account. I'm wondering what else I could do and how it could be done:

- Having no Logs of what I have downloaded?
- Having no .RAR/.001 of what I have downloaded?
- Having no .NZB of what I have downloaded?
- Fetching .NZB of sites without getting logged?

I've heard about the possibility of "stunnel", but all the articles I found said it was an alternative if my provider did not offer SSL, which it does. I'm not using a VPN right now because of the costs (and lower speed?) that come with it. Additionally my provider only offers payment via credit card or paypal, which is not anonymously at all. :/

If these questions have been answered before: I could not find them, nor could I find a topic dedicated to the issue of privacy. Please go easy on me :-)
On a side note: I love how SABnzbd works. :-)

Greetings
smoo

First, if you need to be so paranoid, consider not doing these things.
stunnel is only needed as a replacement for secure Usenet traffic.
SABnzbd already supports secure Usenet traffic, so stunnel is not needed.
Why bother about logs and NZBs when the actual downloaded material is on your system?
You have it fully encrypted, so why bother about those files?
Further:
no logs : set logging level to errors/warnings
no rar: Use +Delete for post-processing
no nzb: don't set an nzb backup folder

Your government is probably already logging all your website visits anyway.