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How so?
Because it is just a library for rust programs. Not even close to reimplementation of Tor for general use. edit: yea, downvoters, show your own inability to process truth. I love this grown up behavior here on HN.
I2P should be preferred. IP2D it's a nice daemon.
For anyone wondering what we're talking about:
https://geti2p.net (Official Java implementation)
https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd (C++ implementation)
The unfortunate thing is that, as far as I'm aware, I2P doesn't have a "Tor Browser" of sorts, and most people would want to use I2P as a clearnet proxy; the audience for I2P may always be significantly less than that of Tor even if it was revealed that Tor was totally flawed.
I think that I2P could benefit from selling itself less as a means of anonymity and more as decentralized, censorship-resistant web hosting. The clearnet should then have inproxies to expose I2P sites rather than the other way around, as is the typical use case for Tor. That way you can spin up an I2P instance anywhere, instantly have a web server on a unique address, and have it be available on any number of clearnet inproxy nodes as well as to anyone connected directly to the network.
Having played a lot with I2P recently, I find it more "fun" than using Tor. It lacks in content, but its focus on hidden services (eepsites) and the relatively small number of users is reminiscent of he web back when I first started using it in the 90s. I like that it has a sort of DNS system that is only as centralized as you want it, and that it has a built in way of assigning your own domain aliases. Even if you (the reader) aren't interested in anonymous decentralized networking for any practical reason, I'd say it's worth testing out I2P just to get a kick out of how novel it is.
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Do you ask that in the comments of every project on the off chance?
This question is relevant when 1: one of the most important (perceived) adversarial is the NSA; 2: as of 2012, 80% of The Tor Project's $2 million annual budget came from the United States government; 3: the Underhanded C Contest exists and we can assume that however secure Rust is, writing underhanded Rust code is possible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tor_Project#Funding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underhand…
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Do those same people also use SELinux?
Of course not. SELinux is functionally unusable due to it's historical ties. Which is a real shame, because the network limiting (used to be, it's been a while since I looked) is very easy to use and quite good.
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How so?
Because it is just a library for rust programs. Not even close to reimplementation of Tor for general use. edit: yea, downvoters, show your own inability to process truth. I love this grown up behavior here on HN.
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Given it was developed by NSA, completely relevant.
But Tor wasn’t, so it’s a derail to begin with
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I don't think you can generally expect all processes to transparently use a SOCKS proxy? You might be able to finagle a custom vpn around it, I suppose. But AFAIK SOCKS isn't 100% transparent at the IP layer allowing all protocols to transparently layer on top? I guess SOCKS5 handles tcp and udp - so you might get away with redsocks (which explicitly recommends against using with TOR): https://github.com/darkk/redsoc…
Tor itself does not support UDP, even if SOCKS might
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How so?
Because it is just a library for rust programs. Not even close to reimplementation of Tor for general use. edit: yea, downvoters, show your own inability to process truth. I love this grown up behavior here on HN.
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Taking a donor's money is at most an implicit endorsement. If an active serial killer gave me a million dollars to make the world a better place, it would be wrong for me to refuse to move money from a bad actor to those in need.
Great strawman but I still disagree and it is not what is happening here, it is still an endorsement of crypto scams, and in the case for crypto, this only amplifies the adoption of ransomware, scams and sure bad actors because of the donation. It just makes it all worse.