On 11/03/2017 08:22 PM, grarpamp wrote:
Someone asked how to access onion sites...
Links to '.onion's are part of the Tor overlay network, therefore you need Tor to reach them. Simplest way is to download and use the 'Tor Browser' from here... https://www.torproject.org/
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I2P is another popular overlay network. It has a torrent network and client built internally into it, so may be a safer alternative to trying to use Tor for torrenting. I2P can be slow and use a ton of RAM / CPU.
https://geti2p.net/en/docs/applications/supported#file-sharing http://127.0.0.1:7657/i2psnark/
Torrent distribution on the "fire and forget" plan is the principal application for i2p, although it also has some forums, an in-network e-mail equivalent, and the router package comes with a ready to run web server. To date I have found i2p "slow" compared to running around the world naked all the time, but more than adequate for its intended purposes. In re RAM and CPU load, I usually run i2p on old, salvaged machines and rarely notice any performance hit when running other applications on them. On "good" machines I see no performance hits at all. Another thing I notice about i2p is that very few actual idiots are on that network: Eternal September has not come to i2p and probably won't for a long time. Back when I was playing with Freenet a few years ago, it really needed a machine of its own to run on: No amount of tuning it, or tweaking the Java engine made much difference in its absurd resource-hog ways. The publicly accessible fora and etc. in Freenet space seemed to be jam packed with the kind of guise who used to wear trench coats to grimy little movie houses in the middle of summer. I think of Freenet as something that might find practical use as a distributed file dump and etc. by groups who configure it to talk /only/ to other members of their team. None of the above has a large enough user base to present an adequate "anonymity set" (a.k.a. crowd to hide in) if one has any concerns about attention from the NSA and its partners and/or rivals.