Re:New improvements to IPFS Bitswap for faster container ima...
by marshmellowtest on Thursday February 27, 2020 @09:45AM
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"resistance against addressed censorship" does not work at all when all your traffic is made public.
People can be prosecuted or otherwise harassed for sharing contents on a P2P system.
> It never looked like an anonymizing tool to me; did anybody advertise it as such?
You are confusing "anonymizing" with "leaking a lot of information to the whole world".
They constantly "forget" to tell people about the huge security impact.
Re:New improvements to IPFS Bitswap for faster container ima...
by viraptor on Thursday February 27, 2020 @06:12PM
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Ipfs helps you distribute content which may get taken down. It does not help you evade local police.
For the second scenario, you want another layer which maintains secrecy. (Like the tor transport https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmYKQvBsbYrRhdaGvQXcEoSam7s5gKVYULfRgNP...)
Re:New improvements to IPFS Bitswap for faster container ima...
by contravariant on Thursday February 27, 2020 @09:46AM
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Well to be fair it would be quite imprudent to have a file system where everyone can see what everyone is doing.
In particular it's pointless to be able to circumvent censorship if you can't do so anonymously.
Re:New improvements to IPFS Bitswap for faster container ima...
by nine_k on Thursday February 27, 2020 @08:45PM
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Circumventing censorship without strong anonymity is not necessarily pointless: you can publish something sensitive from a place where you'd not be prosecuted (e.g. from abroad). The point is to bring the message to those who are denied information.
It never looked like an anonymizing tool to me; did anybody advertise it as such?