Comments on: Cheating and exploiting BitTorrent

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 21 May 2006 07:39:41 +0000

Cheating in bittorrent only works where the tracker is collecting information outside of the protocol spec’s (like recieving information from peers on how much they’ve uploaded and downloaded).

Bram Cohen (the creater of Bittorrent) specifically wrote the protocol assuming that every peer is out for it’s best interest and will lie, cheat and steal.

My client tracks how much your client has uploaded to me, and if you don’t give to me, I don’t give to you. It’s that simple.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 19 May 2006 02:35:43 +0000

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 18 May 2006 23:29:34 +0000

Yeah use that “bug” and get banned from the site within a day
The admins of these sites aren’t stupid and they the bugs that are out there and how to spot/prevent them…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:38:02 +0000

There is one exploit that works well on sites that require a high ratio. I have tried this my self and I got max download speeds every time.
http://xyflar.blogspot.com/

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 17 May 2006 20:40:59 +0000

Similar research was done before.

Of course bitttorrent can be cheated by a particular client, but the honor system has worked ok so far.