With the recent take down of 400 darknet TOR sites by the US authorities. I would have to say that TOR is compromised and we need a new encrypted protocol. I don't feel TOR is safe anymore. Perhaps it was never safe.
Agreed. Not knocking Tor, and nothing will ever be a "magic bullet", but I have always been rather...creeped out by that project's close ties to the US defense/intelligence apparatus.
PLUS i2p has the added benefit of being AMAZINGLY similar to the internet in the nineties...there's just this air of freedom. People in the media refer to anything perceived to be "lawless" as "the wild, wild west" and insist that things ought not be this way. Pish-posh! Wild-wild-westidity (that's right!) is what made the internet so appealing, so revolutionary. So ...electrifying and alluring. Anything was possible, anyone was reachable, and if you couldn't find an answer to something you could find at least one other soul out there who had the same question as you.
The net used to be so lively and nutty. Anyone else notice all the dilution and billboardery of late? Mmhm.
THERE'S LESS PLASTIC IN TEH DARK!!!
For more about snake oil and magic bullets, consult the cantankerous couple behind https://cryptome.org.
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PLUR