TIL that the @torproject@mastodon.social is in truth fairly centralized, after learning #Tor was able to drop specific nodes from the network. Even if for benign purposes, this should raise a red flag.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tor-project-removes-relays-because-of-for-profit-risky-activity/
I2P has a mechsnism for banning routers, permanently or temporarily.
It looks it knows what to block from a local blocklist file and from a “blocklist feed”, but I don’t know what’s the latter right now. I hope you can excuse me on that, I’m also quite new on the topic.
Here is the list of the currently available directory servers: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/flag:authority
This article claims that their list is hardcoded, but honestly I’m not sure right now whether it means you can change it.
I2P has a mechsnism for banning routers, permanently or temporarily.
It looks it knows what to block from a local blocklist file and from a “blocklist feed”, but I don’t know what’s the latter right now. I hope you can excuse me on that, I’m also quite new on the topic.
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