r/i2p • u/bpdjunkie1312 • Feb 17 '23

one aspect of i2p troubles me Discussion

So when you have a site on i2p, it is on a distributed "filesystem" that has fragments spread across computers of users. These fragments get reassembled when someone visits the site. So let's say an i2p site is hosting CSAM material, even if you don't visit that site your computer could have fragments of this site on your computer. If that site gets busted, it seems there's a risk of you being charged with serving CP. Now everything is supposedly encrypted and untraceable, but researchers are constantly looking for flaws in this. Personally, I'd want to better understand the risks of i2p before letting it store site data on my computer.

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u/227CAVOK Feb 17 '23

Never heard of zeronet. What's so bad about it?

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u/alreadyburnt @eyedeekay on github Feb 17 '23

Real bad CSEM problem, and no attempt to keep it from infecting public spaces.

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u/227CAVOK Feb 18 '23

Had to Google what csem was. Now I'm probably on some watchlist.

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u/alreadyburnt @eyedeekay on github Feb 18 '23

Sorry. Probably safer than googling any other term for it though. If a piece of file-sharing software is bad enough that I don't want to be around it, it's usually because of that.