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> They wouldn't know what was IPFS and what was regular encrypted TCP The extreme conclusion of state-sponsored censorship is not a black list or DPI. It is a
by wanderingbort 9y ago
> They wouldn't know what was IPFS and what was regular encrypted TCP
The extreme conclusion of state-sponsored censorship is not a black list or DPI. It is a white list. It is easy to restrict traffic to a small set of addresses that are rigorously monitored for any ability to proxy non-conforming traffic. Everything else would get dropped on the floor.
IPFS and the like sit too high in the OSI layers to combat state sponsored censorship in the long-run.
It makes me wonder what the target market is. If this ever got big, it would just trigger the next step in the arms race it is incapable of sustaining
- hedora 9y agoI’d think it would support grafting in chunks of the merkle dag via usb drives, etc. Otherwise, I don’t understand the claims about disconnected operation and breaking the dependency on the internet backbone.