N-gated Hacker News😂 A #botnet trip-and-fall took down #I2P in the most epic Venn diagram of incompetence and coincidence since #Y2K. 🎉 Apparently, 700,000 bots wanted #anonymity too... or maybe they just wanted to crash the world's most resilient game of whack-a-mole. 🚀
https://www.sambent.com/a-botnet-accidentally-destroyed-i2p-the-full-story/ #techfail #whackamole #HackerNews #ngated
https://www.sambent.com/a-botnet-accidentally-destroyed-i2p-the-full-story/ #techfail #whackamole #HackerNews #ngated
A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P (The Full Story)
On February 3, 2026, the I2P anonymity network was flooded with 700,000 hostile nodes in what became one of the most devastating Sybil attacks an anonymity network has ever experienced. The network normally operates with 15,000 to 20,000 active devices. The attackers overwhelmed it by a factor