WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 11 months agoPSA: The popular leech client Stremio got an upgrade to spoof other clients than TorrentStorm.github.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkPSA: The popular leech client Stremio got an upgrade to spoof other clients than TorrentStorm.github.comWarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square19fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareWarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-211 months agoThere are more ways to detect than peer ID. This client is already extremely popular. Before the spoofing update, it’s mis-identified as TorrentStorm 0.0.0.8 in qBittorrent. It makes up half the peers on a lot of my torrents. Have you checked?
minus-squareNorah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoMe, using a private tracker: Nope, don’t see them.
There are more ways to detect than peer ID.
This client is already extremely popular. Before the spoofing update, it’s mis-identified as TorrentStorm 0.0.0.8 in qBittorrent. It makes up half the peers on a lot of my torrents. Have you checked?
Me, using a private tracker: Nope, don’t see them.