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If you want to use bittorrent, seed!\n \n The sole purpose of this application is demonstrate that security by obscurity is not a good solution.\n\n# This doesn't work\n\n Well this is a proof-of-concept. It's incomplete as it is not supposed to be a cheating tool, I don't like cheaters, no one likes cheaters.\n \n It should ring a bell though.\n\n# Motivation behind this application\n\n  I used a portuguese bittorrent comunity that used a lazy closed source bittorrent application with no version for linux.\n  \n  I offered to port the thing. 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