zinbiel Posted August 12, 2007 Report Share Posted August 12, 2007 I'd like this question answered by someone official.What kind of information is sent without being seen?Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted August 12, 2007 Report Share Posted August 12, 2007 packetsniff using wiresharkYou'll see that it does a version check, and that's it.Put the tinfoil hat away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slipstream Posted August 12, 2007 Report Share Posted August 12, 2007 zinbiel,By default you cannot see all the information (i.e. traffic) sent by µTorrent. [the Tinfoil Hats Giveaway somewhere around?] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honeyfrog Posted August 13, 2007 Report Share Posted August 13, 2007 uTorrent hires millions of monkeys which sit in front of millions of monitors pouring over the millions of datapackets sent by millions of peers.Its master the MPAA was mightly pleased with all of this........Then they ran out of bananas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zinbiel Posted August 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2007 I know it doesn't make sense.Also why would there be a checkbox to allow extra anonymous data sent along with the version check provided that ut is already sending stuff as trackers are claiming.Anyhow in my opinion the best way to resolve this is to make the whole version checking optional if that's what it's all about. Utorrent is the best client i've used so far and it's a real shame trackers ban the latest versions. It would take 5 mins to write the code for it, everyone would be happy and it would stop these rumours. So why haven't the developers/manager (dunno how you guys work) decided that already? :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honeyfrog Posted August 13, 2007 Report Share Posted August 13, 2007 IMO (and I stipulate that my opinion may be 100% worthless to everyone other than me), satisfying the requirements of "ultra-private" passkey sites are an exercise in chasing moving-goalposts for a minute percentage of the user-base. OTOH, all users would benefit from better leech-thwarting measures, ISP-throttling evasion and dictatorship ban circumvention (the latter two are essentially similar). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stone Posted August 13, 2007 Report Share Posted August 13, 2007 I believe version check IS optional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zinbiel Posted August 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2007 Yes it is indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnurlos Posted August 13, 2007 Report Share Posted August 13, 2007 btw, version check was first used in utorrent-1.4.2-beta-build-435.exe (march 2006) ... long long before Bittorrent Inc. bought utorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nos_slived Posted August 13, 2007 Report Share Posted August 13, 2007 GET /checkupdate.php?v=48565634&qv=48565634&lv=329501_0_&i=2&l=en&c=CA&w=A280105&h=U5WjPRSyU4DjPqh1&k= HTTP/1.1Host: update.utorrent.comUser-Agent: uTorrent/1720------------------------------------Variable | Purpose------------------ v | Version information qv | Version information lv | Version information i | Unknown l | Language c | Country w | Unknown h | Unknown k | UnknownThe parameters v, qv, and lv hold version information. Obviously l and c are for locale information. I'm not sure about i, w, h, and k, but none of them hold enough information to give any information about what you're downloading, or what you have on your computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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