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I2P Anonymous Network

by whereistimbo on 11/3/24, 11:29 AM with 46 comments

• by sunshine-o on 11/4/24, 3:55 PM

  While I really like the concept, I2P is one of those P2P network strongly associated with the darkest corner of the Internet in my mind and something I would rather stay away from (because I would rather not get arrested randomly because I have used it).

  Now I was just going through the I2P Wikipedia page and I couldn't find anything about that. Are my fears irrational?

• by oigursh on 11/4/24, 1:44 PM

  I believe there's a simple boot flag for tails OS that let's you use this instead of Tor.

• by 2-3-7-43-1807 on 11/12/24, 12:40 PM

  how does this work? is it like a p2p tor where every participant is also an entry/relay/exit node?

• by fsflover on 11/4/24, 1:03 PM

  The completely anonymous, built-in torrents in I2P are hugely undervalued. I expected that every big torrent tracker would set up a mirror in I2P in order to allow their users to stay anonymous. I don't understand why they don't do it.