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A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P

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Re: A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P

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Post by walletdrainer »

flipped wrote: post #68
pests wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is so odd. I tried to verify your claim and I give up. It might be but I really hate how information is becoming like this. There is other reporting out there on "Starkiller" (the phishing kit in kerbs most recent post) and I can find other articles on it, but sources seem to be circular. The source mentions Jinkusu forums, which do seem to be real, but any links I find aren't loading for me and still no conclus…

Krebs lack any sort of real credibility. He's pushing out slop with a govern-mentalist propaganda. Tech journalists are the worst form to gather any actual information.

Krebs has some credibility in this space because he used to post well-informed takes on these topics, not stuff like this.

His record has never been flawless, but the guy actually put in the work to learn Russian to be able to read these forums. He just doesn’t anymore.

Re: A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P

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Post by kkfx »

_yclj wrote: post #76
kkfx wrote: post #75

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It doesn't work for I2P due to its design, but for things like Nostr, it works well. Essentially, the goal is to build up a list of "known" reliable relays over time, while simultaneously blacklisting anyone who joins and proves to be unreliable relying on the statistic that collaborative individuals outnumber hostile ones in any sufficiently large cohort. Of course, it's far from being 100% effective, but it mitigat…

Hostile entities generally have a lot of money they can use to perform a Sybil attack.

Sure, but can't break the trusted part of the network who can remain operational in that case, even if not really anonymous anymore.

Re: A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P

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Post by flipped »

_yclj wrote: post #77
flipped wrote: post #62

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It's 10, not 9. And there are severe problems with having a total of 10 DA be the essential source of truth for whole network. It would be trivial to DDoS the DAs and bring down the Tor network or at the very least, disrupt it: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10755 . It's the only complaint I have of the current state of Tor. Anyone should be able to run directory authority, regardless if you trust the operator or not (sa…

Anyone can. The DA code is open source and is used whenever you run a testnet. You can also run a DA on the mainnet - how do you think the 10 primary DAs exist? They're not 10 computers owned by a single organization - they're 10 mutually trusting individuals. However, most of the network won't trust you.

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Re: A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P

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Post by torben-friis »

flipped wrote: post #67
torben-friis wrote: post #7

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Oh ffs. Whenever I think my opinion on the state of the world can’t get any lower, things somehow manage to get dumber.

State sponsored cyber attacks are news to you? It's been a thing since more than 2 decades now.

Not the attacks themselves, I would expect that kind or sabotage that actively provokes negative outcomes in people’s lives to have a more respectful/competent reasoning behind than “meh there’s a few leftovers and we had to do something”

Re: A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P

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Post by flipped »

walletdrainer wrote: post #81
flipped wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Krebs lack any sort of real credibility. He's pushing out slop with a govern-mentalist propaganda. Tech journalists are the worst form to gather any actual information.

Krebs has some credibility in this space because he used to post well-informed takes on these topics, not stuff like this. His record has never been flawless, but the guy actually put in the work to learn Russian to be able to read these forums. He just doesn’t anymore.

All of his dox articles are based on sloppy practices from threat actors.

Re: A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P

#86

Post by walletdrainer »

flipped wrote: post #85
walletdrainer wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Krebs has some credibility in this space because he used to post well-informed takes on these topics, not stuff like this. His record has never been flawless, but the guy actually put in the work to learn Russian to be able to read these forums. He just doesn’t anymore.

All of his dox articles are based on sloppy practices from threat actors.

So? At least the reporting used to be mostly accurate and trustworthy.

Here we can see that Krebs is now willing to publish stories he hasn’t even attempted to verify

Re: A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P

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Post by flipped »

walletdrainer wrote: post #86
flipped wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All of his dox articles are based on sloppy practices from threat actors.

So? At least the reporting used to be mostly accurate and trustworthy. Here we can see that Krebs is now willing to publish stories he hasn’t even attempted to verify

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Re: A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P

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Post by fuzzfactor »

monero-xmr wrote: post #27
hoppp wrote: post #21

Isn't I2P java? The botnet uses java? I thought python or C is preferred for that kinda stuff

Computers are so fast it doesn’t matter

Not my downvote, but which computers would that be?

More people than just myself might want one.

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