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So there is a way to figure out who is downloading what on IPFS? (At least assuming that you have assets comparable to national governments.)

• wybiral 9y ago
  Yeah, the nodes connect via IP addresses. You could proxy it through Tor or something though.
  • icebraining 9y ago
    As far as I understand it, proxying it is dangerous because IPFS will announce all your IPs so that the shortest routes can be established. You probably need to run it in a VM/container that only has access to Tor and no other network adapter.
    • wybiral 9y ago
      Ah, good to know. I love the idea behind IPFS but it just doesn't feel mature enough yet. The documentation, examples, consistent APIs, etc, don't seem very solidified.
      • diggan 9y ago
        Thanks! We're hard at work making everything better, especially the documentation and examples bit, but lots of work on the APIs as well. If you have anything concrete to suggest or help out with, please open up a issue in the relevant repository, this would be the entrypoint to find your way around in our Github organization: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs Disclaimer: I work for Protocol Labs on IPFS
        • snow_mac 9y ago
          I want to contribute, experienced senior web dev. Where do I get started?
          • diggan 9y ago
            Jump into #ipfs on freenode (IRC) and tell us what area you want to contribute to and someone can point you in the right direction. Otherwise, assuming you know JavaScript, https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Adifficulty%3Aeasy https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissu... is a great place to start. If you have some Golang experience, https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Adifficulty%3Aeasy https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissu... should work to find you some beginner issues.
    • diggan 9y ago
      > announce all your IPs That's configurable. Check the format for the config here: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/master/docs/config.md#addresses https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/master/docs/config.md#a... Keyword being `Announce` and `NoAnnounce`
    • creatonez 9y ago
      It's pretty easy to configure ipfs to not advertise internal IP addresses. Though it really should be the default behavior.