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Document in the docs if the tracker itself free software. #38

Closed KOLANICH closed 1 year ago

ieee8023 commented 1 year ago

The tracker code is not open source for security. It is not clear to me where that should be added in the docs.

KOLANICH commented 1 year ago

is not open source for security

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity , I guess, a grave violation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27_principle of designing secure systems.

It is not clear to me where that should be added in the docs.

I guess

From 2dc4bedf0a923a2a799cf1dd9d5bf2204ad4ec3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add the note about proprietarity of the service into the FAQ.

---
 docs/faq.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/faq.md b/docs/faq.md
index e730f52..b0baf59 100644
--- a/docs/faq.md
+++ b/docs/faq.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Frequently Asked Questions

+## Is the service Free/Libre Open Source Software?
+
+No, it is proprietary.
+
 ## Cannot connect to tracker

 If your BitTorrent client cannot connect to the tracker first diagnose why using the follow command:
-- 
2.40.1
ieee8023 commented 1 year ago

Thank you for your feedback.

KOLANICH commented 1 year ago

I still don't see the provided patch applied.