Comment by dijit
3 days ago
Not necessarily, Yggdrasil flies under the radar because it's inherently hard to block.
Tor even more so, the power of Tor is that the more people use it: the stronger it becomes to centralised adversaries.
The main issue with Tor is the performance of it though.
I thought that the main issue with tor was that so many of the exit nodes are actually the FBI.
You don't ever have to leave the Tor network.
I host IRC on a hidden service, and even Facebook (lol) offers a hidden service endpoint.
All that is needed is for a critical mass of people and a decent index: and we successfully have reinvented "the wired" from Serial Experiments: Lain
The truth is the internet was never designed or intended to host private information. It was created for scientists by scientists to share research papers. Capitalists perverted it.