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3 =head2 Theory
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5 L<anonymity in general and its place in AnoNet in
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6 particular|http://www.anonet2.org/anonymity>
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12 L<quick introduction to darknets and anonymity in general and AnoNet2
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15 =head2 How to Join
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17 There are many ways to join AnoNet. If you just want to hang out with
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22 =item webchat
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24 L<KwaakNet|http://webchat.kwaaknet.org/?c=AnoNet> (doesn't hide your identity)
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26 =item telnet chat
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32 L<KwaakNet|irc://irc.kwaaknet.org:6667/anonet> (doesn't hide your identity)
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36 If you're feeling adventurous enough to connect, L<UFO has a client
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37 port|http://ix.ucis.nl/clientport.php>.
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39 Once you're online, you can reconnect to IRC from inside AnoNet:
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50 (L<SRN|irc://1.0.27.103:6667/RendezVous>, if you don't have DNS for some
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56 (L<pragmo|irc://1.0.16.111:6667/atomic>, for the same reason as before
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57 and if you want you can use SSL on port 6697) (doesn't automatically
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70 Note that if your only aim in joining AnoNet is to search Google
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71 anonymously, you can save yourself the hassle L<by just heading over to
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72 Scroogle|http://www.scroogle.org/>. If you're looking to browse the rest
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73 of the public Internet anonymously, though, we now have outbound proxies,
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74 which you're more than welcome to use.
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79 join AnoNet|http://www.anonet2.org/links>.)
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81 You'd want to join AnoNet2 for the same reasons as you'd want to join
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82 AnoNet1: to exercise your freedom of speech and action, without having
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83 to worry too much about people who don't like you making too many
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84 connections between your online and offline identities. Unlike AnoNet1,
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85 we're not nazis about our rules, so if you don't feel the need to conceal
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86 your real-life identity, we won't get all mad at you. Just please be
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88 technically), and everybody is happy. (For more discussion on this
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89 topic in particular, you may want to check out L<a separate page
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90 here|http://www.anonet2.org/anonymity>.)
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92 A secondary reason for joining is to gain an opportunity to experiment
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93 with internet technologies without breaking "the real thing." While
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94 that's not the purpose behind AnoNet, it seems to be a common reason
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95 for joining, and as long as you don't break too much with your fun,
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96 you're more than welcome to have your fun here.
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98 You may want to join for the social scene (we even have our own social
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101 looking at an "official" reason for joining, but nobody owns AnoNet, so
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102 "official" is an artificial term 'round here.
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106 "public" Internet is owned and managed by a number of multinational
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107 corporations, it's fairly easy for governments to regulate it. Part of
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108 the main purpose behind AnoNet has always been to get away from those
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109 private control points, in order to create a truly public internet.
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110 In AnoNet1, anybody who can regulate crzydmnd can regulate AnoNet1's
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111 "official" wiki (and by extension, its resource "database"), and
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112 anybody who can regulate Kaos can regulate AnoNet1's "official" client
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115 controlled by UFO and somerandomnick, but we have both technical and
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116 administrative measures in place to ensure that as the network grows,
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117 the two of us will no longer have enough control to destroy the network,
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118 even if our own governments ever decide to try regulating us.
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130 somerandomnick> People are people.
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140 somerandomnick> A person's government should be his own brain. You should never outsource your free choice.
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142 Relay> [anonno @ KN] you know what, you could use this as a marketing tool for anonet ;)
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144 =head2 The AnoNet Advantage
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146 You may be wondering what AnoNet buys you, relative to IcannNet. The answer obviously depends on what you tend to do on IcannNet. Here are some points to note:
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148 =over
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149
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150 =item Read Headlines
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152 If you only read the headlines from your local news (without clicking
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153 through to interesting stories, etc.), your anonymity on AnoNet is
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154 actually significantly _worse_ than on IcannNet, because you're giving
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155 away geolocation information that your IcannNet ISP already knows but
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156 that AnoNet probably doesn't.
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158 =item Read News
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159
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160 Once you start clicking around for "interesting" stories, you're giving away information that your ISP probably wouldn't already know. However, if you read local news it's probably still wise to avoid AnoNet. (You can still use tor directly.)
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161
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162 =item Do Research
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164 AnoNet shines here. Governments can force Google to cough up your search history, but only if Google can figure out which searches you're responsible for. If you use Scroogle (HTTPS) through one of AnoNet's HTTP proxies, the proxy doesn't know what you're looking for, Scroogle has no clue who you are, and by the time the search makes its way to Google, connecting it to you is all but hopeless.
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166 =item Share Files
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168 BitTorrent doesn't hide your IP address, so seeding files for L<TPB|http://www.thepiratebay.org/> is not necessarily safe. BitTorrent on AnoNet doesn't hide your IP address either, but the authorities can't easily connect your AnoNet IP address with your IcannNet IP address (in order to get your ISP to reveal your identity).
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170 =item Speak Out
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172 If you know something that you'd like other people to know, and you fear retribution from those who would prefer for others not to know what you know, traditional IcannNet forums can be forced to turn over your IP address, which can then identify you. On AnoNet, it's comparatively easy to cover your tracks, in such a way that even your own peers would have a hard time figuring out who said whatever it was.
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174 =item Blog
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176 If your blog is easy to connect to your offline identity (say, it
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177 has your name and address, and/or dwells primarily on local issues),
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178 then moving it to AnoNet obviously won't gain you much anonymity.
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179 On the other hand, if it's "just another random blog," AnoNet has the
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180 potential to keep it that way. For example, if you like to tell readers
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181 about your experience with various products, you always run the risk of
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182 having to defend yourself against a lawsuit if a corporate lawyer decides
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183 his client would be better served if your critical review went away.
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184 Now, since defending yourself in any court of law is never a trivial
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185 matter (since the judges in nearly all first-world countries assume
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186 that you know all the laws, regulations, relevant case histories,
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187 civil procedures, etc. - you know, the stuff you'd normally spend
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188 years in law school learning how to make sense of), you may decide
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189 that publishing your blog on IcannNet simply isn't worth the risk.
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190 On AnoNet, your blog is pretty well-protected against civil liability
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191 lawsuits, since before a lawyer can sue you, he first has to find you.
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192 (While there are legal mechanisms in place in many countries to allow a
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193 lawsuit to get started even when the defendant is unknown, it should be
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194 pretty obvious that a court will need to find out who you are before it
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195 can meaningfully involve you in a case. If you've done your homework,
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196 the cost of finding you will far outweigh the benefit, especially if the
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197 plaintiff knows he has no real case against you and was simply hoping to
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198 intimidate you.) In addition, the company hosting your IcannNet blog
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199 almost certainly allows itself to delete (any part of) your blog in
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200 its own sole discretion without even notifying you. That potentially
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201 allows a lawyer with an upset client to take a shortcut and bypass you
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202 entirely, simply "asking" your blog hosting provider to remove (that part
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203 of) your blog. To avoid having to activate its own lawyers, your blog
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204 hosting provider may very well decide to pull (that part of) your blog,
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205 especially if you're paying little or nothing to host your blog. In fact,
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206 if your blog is on its own domain, there's yet another canidate for the
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207 weakest link, in that anybody who wants your blog gone can simply appeal
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208 to your domain's registrar. (Recall the WikiLeaks case, for example.)
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209 On AnoNet, you can easily host your own blog, forcing attacks against
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210 your hosting arrangements to go through you (or at least through _all_
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211 of your peers). Your domain is even harder to attack, since wiping your
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212 domain off of a single resdb repository would only prevent one AnoNet
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213 user from seeing it (and a simple git rollback would fix the situation
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214 even for that individual user). Moreover, the deletion would quickly
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215 propagate throughout AnoNet, potentially raising alarms everywhere.
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216 (Even if only a single user notices the attack and re-adds your domain,
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217 his own re-addition will quickly propagate throughout AnoNet, restoring
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218 access to your domain for everybody.)
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220 =item Publish
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222 If you thought publishing blogs was tricky, try publishing a book. ("Alms for Jihad" comes to mind as one obvious example, where the publisher went so far as to delete the book from its own database and buried the copyright.) While physical books may not be so simple to publish on AnoNet (although you can certainly raise awareness of them by speaking out about them on AnoNet), e-books enjoy considerable anti-censorship advantages on AnoNet.
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224 =item Teach
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226 You may want to teach disciplines that can get you into friction with "the authorities" in a tyrannical regime. (Judges in prominent first-world countries have ruled, for example, that knowing your way around a computer is an indication that you may be involved in computer-related crimes.) AnoNet gives you an opportunity to teach without your students being able to point you out to the authorities, even under pain of torture.
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228 =item Report
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230 You may find yourself in the middle of a news story, but other parts of that news story may not appreciate your reports. When you report something to WikiLeaks without going through tor, you're leaving a long trail that may lead to you. With AnoNet, you can hide that trail to a certain extent, if you don't want to use tor. (WikiLeaks over tor will still give you better protection than AnoNet, if you're worried about your government's intelligence agencies getting involved. AnoNet's optimization towards pseudonymity with common IcannNet protocols is the weakness, here. We're working on that, but in the meantime you have L<tor|http://www.torproject.org/>, L<i2p|http://www.i2p2.de/>, L<Freenet|http://freenetproject.org/>, L<GNUnet|http://gnunet.org/>, and others.)
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232 =back
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236 If you're looking for a ready-made community, where you just show up and
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238 The whole concept behind AnoNet is that it's whatever you make it.
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239 That's not to say you'll have to build everything from scratch (and
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240 in fact, it's a bit too late for that, unless you want to I<re>build
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241 stuff that others have already built - and if you can do better than the
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242 original, people will probably switch to your version), but if you want to
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243 be happy here, you're best off bringing your creativity along rather than
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244 leaving it behind when you join. (If you've been around darknets before,
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245 you're probably quite familiar with "design by committee." On AnoNet,
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246 you're more than welcome to invite a committee to discuss anything you
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247 want, but you don't have to. If you already know what you're doing,
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248 just "build it and they will come.")
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250 =head2 What You Can Do
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252 Since AnoNet uses the same protocols as the public Internet, anything
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253 that's possible on the public Internet is theoretically possible on
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254 AnoNet. In practice, we don't have anything that nobody bothered to
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255 provide on AnoNet.
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257 Here's a list of things you can currently do on AnoNet2 (i.e., without
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258 having to set anything up yourself):
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284 PSYC (psyced: IRC, Jabber, social networking, "twittering," newsgroups, etc.) (irc.somerandomnick.ano)
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288 git (including a decentralized "wiki" replacement) (L<SRN|git://git1.somerandomnick.ano/>, L<UFO|http://anogit.ucis.ano/.git/>, L<cronix|git://1.22.48.100/>, L<pragmo|git://pragmo.ano/>, L<quintum|git://1.0.18.1/>, L<wakawaka|git://1.0.111.1/>, and possibly other repos)
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292 outbound HTTP proxies to the public Internet (L<http://a.privoxy.somerandomnick.ano:8118/> and L<http://b.privoxy.somerandomnick.ano:8118/>)
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296 Web-based resource database viewer: L<http://ix.ucis.ano/anonet/>
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300 Decentralized Web mirroring service (at least L<http://a.mirror.somerandomnick.ano>) (technical difficulties)
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304 BitTorrent Tracker/Indexer (three separate ones, each with some cool
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305 features of its own - ask for details on IRC) (no need to worry about
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306 "Three Strikes" ISP policies)
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320 news (NNTP) (guy appears to have died)
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324 If you want something that's not on either list, you'll either have to
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325 set it up yourself, or con somebody else into setting it up himself. (If
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326 it's something that others are likely to find useful and/or interesting,
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327 you'll probably have an easy time recruiting guys to help you out.)
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329 =head2 What You Can Contribute
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331 Well, each of us has his own wishlist, but most of us are working on
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332 moving stuff from our TODO lists to our DONE lists, so you're looking
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333 at a bit of a moving target. You're more than welcome to contribute
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334 anthing you want, and if it's interesting and/or useful, it'll probably
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335 attract a following. That said, here are a number of things that would
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336 benefit the AnoNet as a whole:
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338 =over
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339
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340 =item Client Ports
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342 When a new user wants to connect, he'll normally come in through a
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343 client port. The more client ports are available, the harder it is for
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344 any individual client port to abuse its position (for example, if the
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345 local government decides to try regulating it).
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347 =item Public Email Services
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349 Currently, every AnoNet user who wants an email address on AnoNet has
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350 to set up his own mailserver. AnoNet1 used to have a public email
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351 service so people could get email addresses without running their own
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352 mail servers, but it hasn't been online in nearly a year (although the
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353 AnoNet1 Web continues to advertise it). SRN is working on setting up
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354 such an animal on AnoNet2, but competition here is a good thing.
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356 =item IRC Servers
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358 IRC on AnoNet2 isn't one big network under centralized control.
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359 Rather, anybody who wants runs his own IRC (or other chat) server,
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360 and links whatever channels he wants to channels on other servers,
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361 using a collection of relay bots. (Right now, UFO and pragmo field
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362 relays, and the scalability problems are becoming visible. How relay
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363 bots may want to deal with this is still a topic for open discussion.
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364 Feel free to join in the discussion, or just do your own thing and let
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365 everyone else be damned.)
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367 =item Outbound HTTP Proxies
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369 SRN runs two right now and ryuk runs one, but that means between the two
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370 of them they can snoop on all HTTP traffic from AnoNet2 to IcannNet.
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371 Having more proxies gives you an alternative to blindly trusting SRN
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372 and ryuk not to sell your click-through data to Google, invert the order
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373 of search results to your queries, and inject malicious JavaScript into
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374 your Hotmail homepage.
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376 =back
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378 =head2 See Also
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380 If AnoNet sounds good but not perfect, don't despair: there are a number
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381 of other projects that may interest you either instead of - or possibly
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382 in addition to - AnoNet.
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386 =item L<dn42|http://www.dn42.net/>
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388 dn42 is another highly decentralized darknet, and it's also quite
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389 friendly. The main differences are that it doesn't claim anonymity as
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390 a goal, and that it's significantly larger than AnoNet. A number of
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391 AnoNet members are also active in dn42.
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393 =item L<VAnet|http://www.vanet.org/>
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395 VAnet is a strange animal. It's a highly I<centralized> darknet, making
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396 the curious claim that centralization actually aids in privacy protection.
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397 It's still quite small, but it should scale extremely well from a
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398 technical perspective, due to its centralization. VAnet's official IRC
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399 is part of the AnoNet IRC monster for now, so the easiest way to find out
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400 more about VAnet is actually just to join AnoNet IRC and ask about VAnet.
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402 =item L<UCIS IX|http://ix.ucis.nl/>
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404 The UCIS Internet eXchange is an attempt to link a bunch of darknets
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405 together. If you connect using UFO's CP, you're already on the UCIS IX.
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407 =back