security problem

[merlin05]

I need to contact one of the coding team with a serious passkey issue, can anyone point me to the right person?

Cheers..

[kewldude607]

Get on IRC and then you want to talk with ludde. Or Firon or someone might know. Anyone listed as an Op.

p2p-irc.net #utorrent

[merlin05]

ok I posted the problem in IRC and they said to post it in here, so here it is.

One of the staff on our site received a pm from a member after a disgruntled user who received a warning. made a few pm's to other members

Ok first thing to do is find a tracker you want to rape the shit out off...******** My New Target due to there actions to myself.

1. Download a torrent file and start it off in UTorrent.

2. Once the torrent has started and has a good collection of peers recorded Right click on the torrent in the top window

3. Once this open the selection window select Properties and delete the passkey or anything from the announce URL ie. (http://*********.com/announce.php?passkey here change to http://*********/announce.php?)

4.This wil then cause Utorrent to show an error in the general Tab window but the download will carry on.

No tracker will be able to pick this up as it's just as if you crashed out or stopped it part way.

It's just the same as happens when a tracker goes down Peers are able to carrie on while they have a peer table in ther own system.Just new peers not able to be added as tracker not there / connected to tell it they are even there to connect to.

No software needed other then your normal download software and no other math needed or hacking to do this.

Go on have a go 100% on **, *** and ***** Not tested any others yet...

[Firon]

Why don't you try searching? It's been posted before, and you can do it with just about any client. You don't even need to remove the tracker URL if you have a firewall or peerguardian, just block the tracker URL. This is one of the many flaws with private trackers.