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'Silk Road Reloaded' Launches On a Network More Secret Than Tor

Posted by timothy on from the ok-but-is-it-better? dept.

rossgneumann writes A new anonymous online drug market has emerged, but instead of using the now infamous Tor network, it uses the lesser known "I2P" alternative. "Silk Road Reloaded" launched yesterday, and is only accessible by downloading the special I2P software, or by configuring your computer in a certain way to connect to I2P web pages, called 'eepsites', and which end in the suffix .i2p. The I2P project site is informative, as is the Wikipedia entry.

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  1. can sombody say.... by ganjadude · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Honeypot???

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  2. Re:Infamous Tor Network? by jythie · · Score: 3, Interesting

    One of the things that makes pointing this out difficult for some people though is that there are a non-trivial number of people who use it for ideological reasons, so they always have their own small community to point to as examples for legitimate use. But just like the other groups you point out, ideological usage is still not common usage since it provides an inferior network experience for mostly symbolic gains, which the average user has no use for.