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by wdaniels
Sat Nov 07, 2009 4:14 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: LibTorrent Peer ID?
Replies: 21
Views: 21013

Re: LibTorrent Peer ID?

I think all this talk of freedom and FUD is a long way off the mark. I found the place to spoof this stuff (top of core.py) in about 5 minutes when I went looking for the peer ID that Deluge uses and when I pointed the tracker admin to that file, s/he didn't start spouting warnings about spoofing th...
by wdaniels
Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:57 am
Forum: Development
Topic: LibTorrent Peer ID?
Replies: 21
Views: 21013

Re: LibTorrent Peer ID?

Hi andar, I'm tempted to agree that these whitelists are a bad idea, but I'm quite new to all these things so I don't fully understand why they are "stupid" exactly. The matter came up when the admins of a private tracker I use implemented a client whitelist the other day (which did not in...
by wdaniels
Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:25 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: LibTorrent Peer ID?
Replies: 21
Views: 21013

LibTorrent Peer ID?

Hi, I was just reading the RC3 release notes and saw that the libtorrent source is no longer to be distributed with Deluge. It occurred to me that this does make the idea of using the peer ID or user agent strings with "whitelists" and "blacklists" on trackers somewhat redundant ...