https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46976825

This, predictably, broke I2P.

Why does i2p (per the article) expect state sponsored attacks every February? Where are those forming from, what does the regularity achieve?

How come the operators of giant (I’m assuming illegal) botnets are available to voice their train of thought in discord?

Not wanting to be overly critical, but any net-infrastructure project kind of has to keep bot-attacks in mind and other attack vectors, in the initial design stage already. Any state-actor (and other actors, though I would assume it is often a state financing the bot network behind-the-scene) can become potentially hostile.

>they accidentally disrupted I2P while attempting to use the network as backup command-and-control infrastructure

So were they hostile or were they using it normally?

Honestly, did the bot implementation have bugs or was it a proper implementation that crashed the network due to sheer numbers?

Also, how does changing the encryption standard affect anything if the bots tried to integrate correctly with the network?

Is the problem "fixed" or is it not? Elsewhere I found large number if botnet devs got pissed off with this botnet operator and 600k nodes went offline. Might this have much more to do with the situation getting better than simply changing encryption?

Also, was there any suggestion a quantum breaking attack was attempted? No. So why put the emphasis on "post quantum" in this article?

Bad. Very bad.

Thus, something like this in Go should be the norm. The GC it's ideal for this, it comes with batteries charged for networking and it can be for sure be made compatible with stuff like NNCP like nothing.

It wouldn't run many times slower than i2pd in C++, it should be perfectly bearable.

This is crazy to me. Discord is letting literal criminals use it's corporate services in full view to commit crimes?