@sadiemascis
Policy, digital privacy, encryption, secure technologies. Invisible Internet Project (#I2P) since 2015. Communication, strategy, infrastructure, community builder. Grant writer, researcher. Protocol explainer.
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Raw ASN-level data from I2P Metrics shows this collapse clearly — even the largest providers like AS197207 and AS58224 went dark.
Note: I2P Metrics hides or put together ASNs with <20 I2P routers to preserve privacy.
📊 Table from router snapshots below ⬇️
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This wasn’t a gradual decline. Iran’s I2P router count fell off a cliff:
🗓️ June 13: 1,496 routers
🗓️ June 18: 209 routers
🗓️ June 19–20: 0 routers
This aligns with a coordinated disruption across multiple Iranian networks. Prior to these days, 🇮🇷 ranked 2nd (only after🇺🇸)
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We observed a sharp drop in I2P router presence in Iran beginning June 13, 2025.
On that day, there were 1,496 active routers.
By June 18, this fell to just 209.
And by June 19–20, there were no routers visible from Iran.
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Interesting observations about @geti2p.bsky.social access disruptions in Iran — I’d like to add to this based on measurements from i2p-metrics.np-tokumei.net, a system I built several years ago to collect I2P Metrics, supported by @opentechfund.bsky.social
Here’s what the 🇮🇷 Iran data shows:
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Love seeing the global scope and growth of the I2P network!
I2P 2.9.0 Release notes:
- Improvements to the performance of i2ptunnel
- NTCP2 has been improved to resist probing attacks.
- Work continues on implementing bandwidth management for tunnels, the Datagram2 protocol, and Post-Quantum cryptography.
geti2p.net/en/blog/post...
Thanks to our awesome network operators! #I2P social.diva.exchange/@social/1144...
Amazing:
github.com/altonen/emis...
emissary is an #I2P router written in Rust.
If you are Rust dev, please support this project.
2.8.2 fixes a bug causing SHA256 failures that was introduced in the 2.8.1 release. The bug primarily affects high-bandwidth routers.
The best way to maintain security and help the network is to run the latest release. geti2p.net/en/blog/post...
I2P 2.8.1 fixes access to local sites that were broken in 2.8.0.
We fixed a tunnel test bug that may have been affecting tunnel reliability. The addressbook now has a new "latest" tab that displays the newest hostnames added from your subscriptions. geti2p.net/en/blog/post...
Fascists play lip service to freedom of speech, but fascists only support freedom for those who agree with them and support them. JD Vance is fine with this prosecution.
If you ❤️ #I2P I will be at #Rightscon next week to talk about all things transports, networks, building digital resistance & encryption! Also, how internet fragmentation is a much broader & nuanced topic than how it is being presented.
I will have stickers & be happy to have all the convos and tea!
no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
Just a reminder that Musk couldn’t get a top level security clearance. And he was under investigation for violating the terms of the clearance he did have. Now he has your Social Security number, your tax returns, and is unilaterally deciding who the government does and does not pay.
I truly hope that Ontario will hold firm with cancelling Starlink contracts and will invest in its own solutions to improve connectivity to people living in the northern parts of the province.
If you are an application developer, help create familiar feeling things like blogging platforms to help people share ideas and connect.
Help projects like I2P become more accessible to more people.
Please make resources available on encrypted / traffic anonymizing networks. If you can, help people make those resources available and help new people get used to accessing them.
Looking at I2P metrics and its great to see that the router distribution in Russia and Iran remains stable.
Notes from #CIGF : all I see are infrastructure / silo problems.
It is impossible for me to understand how the funding and investment strategy against the splinternet is nothing more than creating single points of failure, or just org ego fluffing.
#I2P network participants - what tools do you use with I2P in your daily workflow? We are working on co-guides and I would ❤️ your feedback.
