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Legal consequences of using I2P? (feddit.org)
submitted 4 months ago by sp3ctre@feddit.org to c/i2p@lemmy.world
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Hey guys,

I am running an I2Pd-Node on my raspberry pi somewhere in Germany and I am loving it so far.

About the ethical implications I am at peace with me, because I know, that it's not possible to allow good things without allowing the bad things too.

Sometimes I am a little bit concerned about, what a paranoid government could do. Technically - I don't know what I am forwarding. And since we're not talking about providing an exit-node (to clear-net) like we usually do with Tor, the risk should be greatly reduced as well.

As far as I know, theoretically this scenario could be possible: A large marketplace for illegal stuff appears within the I2P-Network. Law enforcement connects to it and tries to identify the "hops" between them and the marketplace (one by one) and my node is one of it. I know how crazy this sounds. Not very likely, but not impossible as well.

How do you think about this? Are there any recommended precautions you could take to prove you're not the criminal, if LE surprisingly knocks at your door?

~sp3ctre

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[-] waldfee@feddit.org 2 points 4 months ago

From https://www.anwalt.org/tor-browser/

German law gives the citizen a certain amount of room for manoeuvre in safeguarding his own rights on the Internet. Encryption, proxy connections and other measures that also use the darknet and Tor browser are legal. Encryption of data and connections is even described in the laws on data protection as a necessary protective measure.

The setting up and operation of a highly encrypted network is not prohibited. This is exactly what the Onion network represents: A parallel network to the well-known Internet, which redirects the otherwise direct requests and thus obscures the sender. In addition to the redirection, relatively secure encryption methods are added, so that none of the transmitters ever have the plain text in front of them.

I2p, unlike Tor, has the advantages that it is less known and the nodes are not in a public list; as an i2p node operator, you would have enough time to react if the darknets were to be taken against.

this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2026
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