Quote from: DroidR17A on October 13, 2017, 09:11:41 PM

Did you see the last post/response? Seems like a legit answer:

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jgarzik replied 9 days ago edited
This is a privacy feature. See discussion at PR #109 for more.

This feature defaults to advertise (privacy=off).

Users may optionally disable advertising (privacy=on).

There is historical precedent with Internet browsers: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7975996/why-does-internet-explorer-9-report-mozilla-in-useragent

Users also rightly requested privacy features like this due to past attacks:

I wonder why Jeff Garzik would tell such a transparent lie. It only seems like a legit answer if you don't know how things work. Although he has locked the discussion there so no one else can point this out, nothing stops us from discussing it over here.

All his nodes continue to send subver: "Satoshi:1.15.0" to everything that connects to them, trivially identifying them. A a result his change has no privacy gain what-so-ever and serves exclusively to undermine the anti-partitioning logic in the Bitcoin node software; leaving users open to unwanted connections that reduce their safety and reliability. This fact couldn't have been missed, especially since the explicitly cited "Bitcoin Classic" identified itself exclusively via subver.

[FWIW, because I'm calling Jeff out on a serious breach of ethics here I think it's important that he have an opportunity to respond, so I am also emailing him a link to this discussion. Edit: Done]