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Comment by jesprenj

Implementing sample_infohashes opens your torrent client to abuse. UDP responses are much larger than queries and this protocol (BEP51) allows attackers that can spoof source IP addresses to use a large number of clients as mules for amplified distributed denial of service attacks.
parent jesprenj 2 years ago

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