https://consensus-health.torproject.org/
Looks like the Tor consensus is broken at this moment. Unclear why. It'll take awhile for the network to fail. But if it stays broken it eventually will as the consensus becomes invalid.
Reminder: Tor is centralized. Knocking out a half dozen directory authorities is enough to shut it down.
@pete I2P might gain popularity from this, like mastodon did with the Twitter censorship events... I’m not even sure I2P is still being developed actually, I looked at it a while back. I remember it seemed to have a more distributed architecture than Tor.
@kexkey ...which is kinda scary: what stops MITM attacks? Tor isn't great against that. But at least humans run it, and node operators are a good mix of anonymous and not.
@kexkey sorry, specifically, sybil attacks.
@pete @kexkey we need to bridge meat space and cyber space with distributed trust networks somehow.
Like if we had communities that could determine who was a trusted actor couldn't each community maintain consensus for that community, then those communities form branches to each other based on a different trust model?
That way if one community goes down you can likely still have connections to route around it through trusted parties?
@untappedgrowth @kexkey well, now you're getting into very tricky UI/UX problems. :)
@untappedgrowth @kexkey Implementing tribes well is a very tricky UI/UX problem!
@pete @untappedgrowth @kexkey We have federations, right? Just use that?
@bryancyan @untappedgrowth @kexkey But notice how most federations are a fairly simple trusted admin + mods model? If that's enough, fine. But it's not exactly what the Web of Trust was supposed to be.
