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Reminder: seeders, please seed on I2P (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 month ago by Findmysec@infosec.pub to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Regular users in Sweden are in danger because a corporation needs to fill their pockets. Studios are suing your ISPs to get to you.

Use I2P. It will hide your IP address (among the many things it can do), afford you more privacy and allow you to torrent freely, even without a VPN/seedbox. The catch? You'll have to add the I2P trackers to your torrent.

I believe I2P is the way forward for piracy and I look forward to it getting bigger than it already is.

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[-] Abnorc@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

I admit that I’m skeptical since everyone is a node. It probably is fine, but I don’t know the risks that I take by volunteering as a node. I thought that VPNs can be fine as long as they don’t store logs, but I could be mistaken.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 18 points 1 month ago

as a node

you are unable to see the contents of traffic you route thanks to layered encryption
you wont be routing traffic to the internet (unless you specifically set it up), but only to other I2P routers

[-] Findmysec@infosec.pub 8 points 1 month ago

VPNs usually do store your IP when you connect to them, even if they delete it later (it is technically impossible to not know the IP address of whoever is connecting to the VPN). And the likes of Mullvad and IVPN do not allow port-forwarding.

I will repeat what I said to the other commenter: please read the documentation. Being a router doesn't mean that traffic and its contents can be linked to your identity. Data is broken down into chunks and encrypted along with metadata being scrambled. Unless there's a zero day I'm unaware of, you are perfectly safe.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Being a node isn't an issue. The traffic is encrypted, the destinations are unknown to the nodes themselves, and the traffic does not leave the overlay network (I2P). In TOR, you also have something similar, but the traffic can exit the overlay network but to do so, your node must be an exit node. I2P nodes are internal by default and it's not that easy to make it an exit node.

You are very safe being a node in I2P.

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