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You might be confusing IPFS with something else, like Freenet. As far as I know, there's no such statistical anonymity in it.
by dale_glass 4y ago
You might be confusing IPFS with something else, like Freenet.
As far as I know, there's no such statistical anonymity in it.
- csande17 4y agoYes, it's fairly easy for attackers to discover the IP address of the people currently hosting a particular piece of content on IPFS: https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/privacy-and-encryption/#what-s-public-on-ipfs https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/privacy-and-encryption/#what... I think the parent comment is asserting that even if you run IPFS over Tor or something, or even if they try and make IPFS more anonymous in the future, it will always still be vulnerable to the "cut off your Internet and see which node in the network goes down" attack.