Editing BitComet (section)

=== DHT exploit ===
During version 0.60, BitComet received bad publicity because its implementation of the [[Distributed hash table|DHT]] feature, which was new at the time, could be exploited to ignore the private flag of a tracker. This allowed users to avoid download and upload ratio restrictions, which are common on private trackers. Some private trackers responded to this by [[blacklist]]ing version 0.60.<ref name="slyck BitComet Banned">{{Cite web
| url=http://www.slyck.com/story1021.html
| title=BitComet Banned
| access-date=2007-01-15
| year=2005
| author=Thomas Mennecke
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070124131627/http://www.slyck.com/story1021.html
| archive-date=2007-01-24
| url-status=dead
}}</ref> BitComet developer RnySmile reverted the client back to version 0.59 in response to the blacklisting.<ref name="slyck BitComet Reverts to Version .59">{{Cite web
| url=http://www.slyck.com/story1030.html
| title=BitComet Reverts to Version .59
| access-date=2007-01-15
| year=2005
| author=Thomas Mennecke
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070124132253/http://www.slyck.com/story1030.html
| archive-date=2007-01-24
| url-status=dead
}}</ref>

The [[Distributed hash table|DHT]] exploit was fixed in version 0.61.<ref name="slyck BitComet 0.62 and You">{{Cite web
| url=http://www.slyck.com/story1094.html
| title=BitComet .62 and You
| access-date=2006-12-03
| year=2006
| author=Thomas Mennecke
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070518105128/http://www.slyck.com/story1094.html
| archive-date=2007-05-18
| url-status=dead
}}</ref><ref name="slyck BitComet 0.64 Released">{{Cite web
| url=http://www.slyck.com/story1152.html
| title=BitComet .64 Released
| access-date=2006-01-15
| year=2006
| author=Thomas Mennecke
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008092503/http://www.slyck.com/story1152.html
| archive-date=2007-10-08
| url-status=dead
}}</ref>