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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
by marshmellowtest 7y ago
"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.
- viraptor 7y agoIpfs 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/QmYKQvBsbYrRhdaGvQXcEoSam7s5gKVYULfRgNPzN5JM8N/IPFS-via-OnionCat.html https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmYKQvBsbYrRhdaGvQXcEoSam7s5gKVYULfRgNP...)