I would have given them a hint by changing there repo's name or something, just so that if bittorrent wanted to fill a lawsuit they have no information.Originally Posted by MentaL
I would have given them a hint by changing there repo's name or something, just so that if bittorrent wanted to fill a lawsuit they have no information.
Cheap bastards! But aye, Emily's got the next few months nappies and such sorted
edit: what would I have done in your position? Demanded a phone call, shown them the number of people wanting their source code and tell them to match an offer.
It's an outright spit in the face to you...
I just hope bittorent make post on their site about this and clear Mental name being a hacker -_-
It's their own fault forget to secure their jenkins panel, forgot to set a user/pass to the admin panel @_@
for me : maybe i when i found it i wont do anything coz i dont understand it, maybe i will download couple files that interest me, but i think i leave as it is X_X
I’m still shocked at how much they paid you to be honest. It would have been great business for them to give you something a little more worthwhile but maybe they can’t see that. In the future if anything else like this is discovered in BitTorrent I’m sure that person won’t be kind enough to report it.
Depends on the person, really. Some people would prefer the 500$ from BitTorrent over the 100k they could get if they used the information against BitTorrent.
They've been calling you an hacker on Tweakers.net (largest tech site in the Netherlands), so I'm doing my best to have that changed, we'll see if I succeed. Oh and I told them to change it to RaGEZONE as well. ;)
Anyway nice work, shame they offer you a reward and do it in such a pitiful way, but meh, fuck them. ;)
cheers.
Good on you MentaL, even though BitTorrent Inc acted like arseholes you did the right thing. By the looks of things you got a shit ton of free advertising too
BitTorrent Inc. Escapes Disaster as Source Code and Financials Leak | TorrentFreak
https://ccplz.net/threads/bittorrent...ls-leak.56129/
https://www.facebook.com/limetorrent...51429261561533
BitTorrent Inc. Escapes Disaster as Source Code and Financials Leak | Regator - Curated Blog Search and Discovery
I realise they all link back to torrent reactor but that is just a tiny number of sites talking about it.
It's global, o know.
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Any significant user registration numbers since then?
oh wow
imagine builds with 0 adds going public - they would lose millions in revenue.
What's important is that you are not in jail.
They changed it, they removed the hacker part and changed ragezone to "his own forum"
great thanks.
Why would I be in jail?
What a joke.
Totally should have sold the info to the MPAA. They could have pushed a build that reports file downloads, and all the users info, to them. They would have made millions. Though I'm not sure how useable it would be in court? I suppose it would let them know who is downloading, and they can easily go from there knowing 100% the person has been downloading illegal content.
I'm pretty sure it would be worth more to the MPAA than to random chinese hackers, because it would effectively destroy the torrenting community, I mean would you risk using any torrent client knowing 100% of the utorrent user base got sued for millions?
I kinda think it's grey hat reporting it to the company that is facilitating copyright violations. Giving it to the authorities might have been more white hat if you think about it.
This is the story I'd have been talking about if I was writing news articles. I'd say it makes for a much more complex discussion on the moral implications of "hacking" illegal sites. If it's ok to block (which is effectively the same thing as DDOSing) TPB, then surely it's ok to attack file sharing programs?
RaGEZONE is still misspelled, they did change the hacker part on my request though.
Umm to the deleted comments
1: i'm not blackmailing nobody
2: I'm not deleting the thread
You can't be in a jail for what you have done because you did the right thing and reported the whole security leak to them without touching anything or causing any damage.
My point was that it's good that you've made the right decisions.
I noticed some strange shit happening with bittorent a while ago, the menus of their bittorrent software were abnormally slow, the slowest menus I have probably ever seen in a program, and utorrent's connectivity always managed to fail after a while even if worked properly at first. I even sent them a report telling them about it and about a week later of this report they announced they were discontinuing utorrent or something which I don't know if it was related to these problems or maybe others.
It seemed like nobody cared at that company about any of the programs and I wouldn't be surprised if it was themselves who actually were exploiting their own software to obtain private info to sell it to certain groups and accidentally enabled some faster but unsafe way to update the software because they simply don't care enough about their programs and only care about the $.
Oops, read over the first sentence, at least they changed the hacker part, a lot of news website's still call Mental a hacker >.<
no hacker, just a lucky handsome Welsh stallion.
Have they upped the reward yet?
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