Originally Posted by
JohnWick
Good, Is it not good if ratio cheat creation tools and tricks should be public?
There are valid reasons for cheat client authors not to publish source code or documentation in public, because...
...ideally, knowledge of how a system works alone should not be enough to subvert or vulnerate it, but that does not truly apply here because...
...making a 100% perfect cheat client is not possible, and detecting 100% of cheating is not possible, as there are too many idiosyncrasies and fringe cases to consider because...
...ultimately, BitTorrent was not designed for private sharing or centralized tracking of ratios, and while protocol extensions do exist, they cannot implement such a thing in a way that is both secure and backwards compatible.
I am not saying RM or MR source should be public, but there should be tips to create simple cheat tools.
JOAL and ratio-spoof are open source, as are other lesser-known programs. Back in the day, the RatioBlaster and TorrentProxy sources were the go-to reference for aspiring programmers. There is a subforum here dedicated exclusively to documenting how each client handles key aspects of its tracker reporting. Everyone who has asked for help on this regard has received it. Fun fact: I answered every question Owyn had about uTorrent modding when he hadn't yet made mention of doing any, and was one of the betatesters for the first Serenity mods (in plural, the settings manager didn't exist yet).
At the end of the day, though... programming is hard, and BitTorrent and HTTP are complex protocols. I'm not saying no one should try - otherwise we wouldn't have all the programs we have here - but here's a suggestion. Write a small cheating program that only starts a torrent, reports a custom amount of upload, then stops it. You will quickly learn how "simple" this really is.
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