Re:u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania
by bawolff on Friday January 29, 2021 @09:41PM
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The wording can be a little confusing, because i believe in tor when people talk about censorship resistance they mean censorship of the whole network - e.g. blocking all the entry nodes, trying to find bridges and blocking them, which is a different type of censorship. I imagine freenet is just as vulnerable to that, and i would imagine that is an easier thing for powerful entities to do than to push GB of data into the tor network for an extended period of time to hopefully knock out a single hidden service.
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Re:u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania
by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 on Friday January 29, 2021 @11:55PM
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Freenet in fact is less vulnerable to that because they aim to prevent that specific attack you described with the following feature:
It offers a "darknet" mode where you manually add peers by exchanging cryptographic keys with them.
The connections to those peers are fully encrypted then and thus very difficult to block because you can't detect Freenet with merely packet inspection anymore.
Besides, the ability to censor individual Tor sites is *bad enough* already IMHO.