How can users maintain anonymity while serving files on an ipfs node? If you are publishing a file, then it is associated with your unique IP address. You could establish a Virtual Private Network first, but is there much else that could help?

IPFS leaks a fair amount of information: Your peer ID is persistent, by default. IPFS discovers and advertise your addresses. You’d want to run your IPFS node inside a container (or, even better, a VM) that only knows about the VPN interface. The content stored by a node can be used to fingerprint…

You can use the Addresses.Announce feature to only show the addresses you want known (you don’t have to use a container or VM to achieve that). I actually use that feature for a different reason (the auto-discovery doesn’t work in my setup, probably a bug there when things are complicated, like doub…

@stebalien ?! :heart_eyes: https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=EqWRaAF6_WY I am awed to find you in this thread! Thank you for all your work. I wonder whether it might be possible for IPFS to offer some sort of anonymity or deniability by the use of something like neighbourhoods, formed by nodes, and a …

You were very far sighted, working on FreeNet way back then. Thank you for helping get the project going. Since we are on the topic of anonymity (which is important for Free Expression, so that people can avoid persecution), and to jog your memory to look in from time-to-time, here are a few more w…

[image] yeehi: I wonder whether it might be possible for IPFS to offer some sort of anonymity or deniability by the use of something like neighbourhoods, formed by nodes, and a sort of double-bind, like is used in clinical trials. Well, you’d probably want to just use IPFS as a distribution n…

There is a discussion here about creating ipfs-desktop containers: [image] IPFS Containers on Cloudron Coding Cloudron For security and greater anonymity, ipfs-desktop is best run in a container, for example a Virtual Machine. Though ipfs-desktop is very easy to deplo…

You could form a “neighborhood” by forming a private swarm. I have wondered if you can setup a private swarm that has read access to the public IPFS network. I have an intuition that you can do that because I believe that’s similar to what IPFS Cluster does. You’d just need to setup the public side …

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There is a discussion here about creating ipfs-desktop containers:

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