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UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] cannon_annon88@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This is really interesting, but I guess I don't fully understand it. Does this replace your ISP (like Comcast for example), or am I just reconfiguring my browser to access these sites and not send my traffic through the regular Internet?

[–] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 3 points 3 days ago

Nah, you run it over your existing ISP connection but set up an "i2p router" on a PC / laptop / server to connect to others on the i2p network.

Here's a vid on some discussion about what it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v217o18oVc0&t=89

Have fun!

[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don't really understand it either. Sounds like a series of tubes.

What AI had to say about it:

Yes, I2P (Invisible Internet Project) does require an internet service provider (ISP) for its functionality. While I2P is a decentralized network, it relies on your existing internet connection to function. You still need an ISP to connect to the internet and access I2P's network.

edit: going deeper, you have peers, and those peers are used to route and re-route your traffic. To basically scramble it. Its a more sophisticated and decentralized way of encrypting traffic. There are reseed nodes which are not decentralized that function to create initial connections and find peers. Once these peers are found though, you are on a completely decentralized darknet, so in theory your traffic is way more scrambled and way harder to trace.

If you just want to get on the regular internet though (clearnet), its possible, but it seems this is not really the way to go as it isn't as secure and it is slow. Tor would be a better option..

Fundamentally it seems a lot like torrenting except much more secure. Your ip address is hidden, instead people see your cryptographic identifier. Your traffic is encrypted multiple times. A more simple comparison to torrenting; instead of peer to peer, it is peer to a long chain of peers, in which no peer can link the start chain to the end chain.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

It's kinda like Tor, but different, more secure from what I understand. You also can't access normal internet sites while properly connected to i2p