I’ve heard passing mention of people switching to i2p because they feel the design choices of the Tor project are questionable - suggesting compromise. But these were vague assertions, is there more reading or ability to substantiate this?
I2P has been designed with "hidden services" in mind. AlphaBay, which until a few months ago was the most modern and progressive dark web market had fully moved to I2P. Stating that they saw no future in Tor, as the Tor Project refused to address major design issues even though they have heaps of money.
So far using i2p has been very nice to use and the tools are well developed. I run a node myself. The way i2p works is very interesting. Some services like Dread which provide i2p access have only been accessible via i2p in recent times due to the load on tor.
We'll have to see how i2p holds up when it inevitably takes over Tor and becomes a target of ddos itself.
Yeah I think I saw AlphaBay’s complaint and was hoping there was an elaboration
Like is it like that Swiss encryption company that kept bricking the encryption for the CIA and employees kept noticing intentional encryption flaws and being told to work on something else?
I feel like “written in a memory-safe language” is a fair selling point, especially when we are talking about a tool designed to accept completely untrusted data from the network and keep you safe from attackers with significant resources.
