Comment on Ask HN: I've Built a DHT Torrent Sniffer and Search Engine. Should I Release?parentComments−r3trohack3r3yIt already exists. BTDigg: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTDiggAnd sibling comments show there is a community of folks doing this.People also do it to Tor’s DHT too for discovering hidden services: https://donncha.is/2013/05/trawling-tor-hidden-services/You can’t really stop open source tech like this from existing by choosing to not open source your implementation. You just end up staying out of the conversation yourself. The community will still build it if there is a desire for it.
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It already exists. BTDigg: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTDigg
And sibling comments show there is a community of folks doing this.
People also do it to Tor’s DHT too for discovering hidden services: https://donncha.is/2013/05/trawling-tor-hidden-services/
You can’t really stop open source tech like this from existing by choosing to not open source your implementation. You just end up staying out of the conversation yourself. The community will still build it if there is a desire for it.