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by sylware 14 days ago
It is not, the 'static' part is just some sugar to remove a bit more information from the internet traffic generated by such communication protocol. The software development part is mostly to mitigate what's well know with current planned obsolescence abuse from many software actors (and move some risks from corpos to people).

I2P is obviously much less a fantasy than 'information system security' but is very creative and dependent on the current internet trends: you can encode in clear text in video games chat/socials, have fake streaming services (asymetric), fake video games, etc, etc. I heard 'rumors' a long time ago about about 'special commands' encoded in the silicon of some carrier grade routers, were they true?

I2P is a rabbit hole which can go, REALLY, REALLY DEEP. Basically, if the guys are carefull, the 'services' or experienced hacking team would need to know who to look at.

But here, nope, just something to help 'privacy', but as I said, with some limited impact on mass-monitoring and "John Doh" ("hacker only on Sundays").