How about Gemini? https://geminiprotocol.net/
Gemini is a group of technologies similar to the ones that lie behind your familiar web browser. Using Gemini, you can explore an online collection of written documents which can link to other written documents. The main difference is that Gemini approaches this task with a strong philosophy of “keep it simple” and “less is enough”. This allows Gemini to simply sidestep, rather than try and probably fail to solve, many of the problems plaguing the modern web, which just seem to get worse and worse no matter how many browser add-ons or well meaning regulations get thrown at them.
How it applies to geolocation and server hosting in light of the OSA I really have no clue. But it’s an interesting underground hacker/tinker type alternative.
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
i2p
icegladiator@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago
That moment when you decide to use i2p because its more sustainable for every user to be a node just for your server’s location to get leaked in a vulnerability. This is why most deep web migration to i2p ended
Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Have any links or extra info on that?
icegladiator@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago
i2p before 2.3.0 (Java) allows de-anonymizing the public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of i2p hidden services (aka eepsites) via a correlation attack across the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses that occurs when a tunneled, replayed message has a behavior discrepancy (it may be dropped, or may result in a Wrong Destination response). nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-36325
xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 weeks ago
I don’t really have a link, but you might be able to find something talking about game server protocols. Outside of LAN, usually you’re either connecting to a central server, or a peer relay. With a relay server it’s just a proxy between you and the other players to hide your IP from others.
There’s plenty of cases in games that didn’t do this where malicious actors could find the IPs of the people they’re playing with and DDoS them to give themselves an advantage. Knowing someone’s IP will also probably tell you extra info about them like what city they’re in, and open them up for further hacking.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I must have missed that. When did that happen? I used i2p a long time ago and it seemed very promising. I imagine it has got better since.