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1 =head1 AnoNet, Take 2!
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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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20 =begin xhtml
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23 <tr><th>Protocol</th><th>Service</th><th>Anonymity</th></tr>
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24 <tr><td>HTTPZ<></td><td>L<KwaakNet|http://anonet.serveirc.com/></td><td>????</td></tr>
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25 <tr><td>HTTPZ<></td><td>L<KwaakNet|http://anortr.ucis.nl:8086/?channels=anonet&nick=Anonymous></td><td>a?y?</td></tr>
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26 <tr><td>HTTPZ<></td><td>L<KwaakNet|http://webchat.kwaaknet.org/?c=AnoNet></td><td>n???</td></tr>
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27 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<SRN|irc://anortr.ucis.nl:8804/RendezVous></td><td>aaoa</td></tr>
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29 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<SRN2|irc://anortr.ucis.nl:8806/anonet></td><td>aaoa</td></tr>
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30 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<SRN2 (tor)|irc://w53qxqs27amlrwnm.onion/anonet></td><td>aaoa</td></tr>
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31 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<UFO|irc://anortr.ucis.nl:8805/anonet></td><td>a?oo</td></tr>
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32 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<UFO|irc://irc.kwaaknet.org:6667/anonet></td><td>nooo</td></tr>
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33 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<sevilNatas|irc://irc.sevilnatas.ano:6667/anonet></td><td></td></tr>
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34 <tr><td>telnetZ<></td><td>L<SRN|telnet://anortr.ucis.nl:8803/></td><td>aaya</td></tr>
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35 </table>
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39 If you're feeling adventurous enough to connect at the IP level, L<UFO has a client port|http://ix.ucis.nl/clientport.php>.
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41 Once you're online, you can reconnect to IRC from inside AnoNet:
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45 =item IRC (on the udpmsg3 cloud)
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49 =item webchat
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53 =item webchat
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60 (L<SRN|irc://1.0.27.103:6667/RendezVous>, if you don't have DNS for some
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69 L<pragmo|irc://irc.pragmo.ano:6667/atomic>
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70 (L<pragmo|irc://1.0.16.111:6667/atomic>, for the same reason as before
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71 and if you want you can use SSL on port 6697) (doesn't automatically
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72 hide your identity)
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84 Note that if your only aim in joining AnoNet is to search Google anonymously, you can save yourself the hassle L<by just heading over to Scroogle|http://www.scroogle.org/>. If you're looking to browse the rest of the public Internet anonymously, though, we now have outbound proxies, which you're more than welcome to use. (L<Here's a service that tries to show you what you're likely to be leaking, right now.|http://what-is-my-ip-address.anonymous-proxy-servers.net/>)
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86 =head2 Why to Join
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88 (Note: There's now L<a separate page with links to many more reasons to
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89 join AnoNet|http://www.anonet2.org/links>.)
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91 You'd want to join AnoNet2 for the same reasons as you'd want to join
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92 AnoNet1: to exercise your freedom of speech and action, without having
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93 to worry too much about people who don't like you making too many
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94 connections between your online and offline identities. Unlike AnoNet1,
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95 we're not nazis about our rules, so if you don't feel the need to conceal
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96 your real-life identity, we won't get all mad at you. Just please be
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97 considerate of those who would like to stay anonymous ("pseudonomous,"
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98 technically), and everybody is happy. (For more discussion on this
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99 topic in particular, you may want to check out L<a separate page
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100 here|http://www.anonet2.org/anonymity>.)
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102 A secondary reason for joining is to gain an opportunity to experiment
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103 with internet technologies without breaking "the real thing." While
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104 that's not the purpose behind AnoNet, it seems to be a common reason
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105 for joining, and as long as you don't break too much with your fun,
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106 you're more than welcome to have your fun here.
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108 You may want to join for the social scene (we even have our own social
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109 network, although nobody uses it for what should be obvious reasons),
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110 or you may want to create your own social scene. Again, you're not
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111 looking at an "official" reason for joining, but nobody owns AnoNet, so
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112 "official" is an artificial term 'round here.
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114 You may be looking for help with your Mathematics, Physics or Computer
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115 Science homework. Due to AnoNet's nature, many of the guys who hang
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116 out here have an academic background in one (or more) of the above,
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117 and most are quite happy to help students.
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119 If you're interested in starting your own darknet, you can get plenty of
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120 advice here. In addition, the AnoNet2 infrastructure is easy to reuse
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121 for any other darknet, by design. (Technical ease of forking is a core
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122 goal of AnoNet2. We avoid forks only by being good enough so nobody
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127 "public" Internet is owned and managed by a number of multinational
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129 the main purpose behind AnoNet has always been to get away from those
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130 private control points, in order to create a truly public internet.
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131 In AnoNet1, anybody who can regulate crzydmnd can regulate AnoNet1's
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132 "official" wiki (and by extension, its resource "database"), and
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133 anybody who can regulate Kaos can regulate AnoNet1's "official" client
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134 port (and by extension, all new AnoNet1 users), so the private control
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135 point problem hasn't quite been solved there. AnoNet2 is still largely
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136 controlled by UFO and somerandomnick, but we have both technical and
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137 administrative measures in place to ensure that as the network grows,
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138 the two of us will no longer have enough control to destroy the network,
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139 even if our own governments ever decide to try regulating us.
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145 =item Relay> [Ivo @ KN] governments do not intend to harm everybody
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147 =item Relay> [Ivo @ KN] some criminals just intend harm everybody
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149 =item somerandomnick> and some governments do, too
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151 =item Relay> [Ivo @ KN] they usually at least pretend to be good for some people
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153 =item somerandomnick> People are people.
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155 =item Relay> [anonno @ KN] right now they can eavesdrop on telephones, and they like it... if we all move to encrypted voip, they're in trouble
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157 =item somerandomnick> It doesn't really matter that much what hat a guy is wearing.
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159 =item somerandomnick> A government is just a pretty face for a person to hide behind.
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161 =item somerandomnick> It doesn't actually mean anything beyond "I'm stronger than you, so I make decisions for you."
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163 =item somerandomnick> A person's government should be his own brain. You should never outsource your free choice.
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165 =item Relay> [anonno @ KN] you know what, you could use this as a marketing tool for anonet ;)
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167 =back
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169 =head2 The AnoNet Advantage
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170
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171 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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173 =over
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175 =item Read Headlines
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177 If you only read the headlines from your local news (without clicking
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178 through to interesting stories, etc.), your anonymity on AnoNet is
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179 actually significantly _worse_ than on IcannNet, because you're giving
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180 away geolocation information that your IcannNet ISP already knows but
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181 that AnoNet probably doesn't.
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183 =item Read News
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186 giving away information that your ISP probably wouldn't already know.
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187 However, if you read local news it's probably still wise to avoid AnoNet.
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188 (You can still use tor directly.)
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190 =item Do Research
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192 AnoNet shines here. Governments can force Google to cough up your
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193 search history, but only if Google can figure out which searches you're
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194 responsible for. If you use Scroogle (HTTPS) through one of AnoNet's
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195 HTTP proxies, the proxy doesn't know what you're looking for, Scroogle
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196 has no clue who you are, and by the time the search makes its way to
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197 Google, connecting it to you is all but hopeless.
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199 =item Share Files
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201 BitTorrent doesn't hide your IP address, so seeding files for
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202 L<TPB|http://www.thepiratebay.org/> is not necessarily safe. BitTorrent
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203 on AnoNet doesn't hide your IP address either, but the authorities can't
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204 easily connect your AnoNet IP address with your IcannNet IP address
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205 (in order to get your ISP to reveal your identity).
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207 =item Speak Out
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209 If you know something that you'd like other people to know, and you fear
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210 retribution from those who would prefer for others not to know what
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211 you know, traditional IcannNet forums can be forced to turn over your
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212 IP address, which can then identify you. On AnoNet, it's comparatively
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213 easy to cover your tracks, in such a way that even your own peers would
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214 have a hard time figuring out who said whatever it was.
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216 =item Blog
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218 If your blog is easy to connect to your offline identity (say, it
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219 has your name and address, and/or dwells primarily on local issues),
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220 then moving it to AnoNet obviously won't gain you much anonymity.
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221 On the other hand, if it's "just another random blog," AnoNet has the
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222 potential to keep it that way. For example, if you like to tell readers
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223 about your experience with various products, you always run the risk of
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224 having to defend yourself against a lawsuit if a corporate lawyer decides
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225 his client would be better served if your critical review went away.
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226 Now, since defending yourself in any court of law is never a trivial
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227 matter (since the judges in nearly all first-world countries assume
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228 that you know all the laws, regulations, relevant case histories,
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229 civil procedures, etc. - you know, the stuff you'd normally spend
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230 years in law school learning how to make sense of), you may decide
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231 that publishing your blog on IcannNet simply isn't worth the risk.
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232 On AnoNet, your blog is pretty well-protected against civil liability
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233 lawsuits, since before a lawyer can sue you, he first has to find you.
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234 (While there are legal mechanisms in place in many countries to allow a
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235 lawsuit to get started even when the defendant is unknown, it should be
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236 pretty obvious that a court will need to find out who you are before it
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237 can meaningfully involve you in a case. If you've done your homework,
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238 the cost of finding you will far outweigh the benefit, especially if the
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239 plaintiff knows he has no real case against you and was simply hoping to
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240 intimidate you.) In addition, the company hosting your IcannNet blog
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241 almost certainly allows itself to delete (any part of) your blog in
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242 its own sole discretion without even notifying you. That potentially
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243 allows a lawyer with an upset client to take a shortcut and bypass you
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244 entirely, simply "asking" your blog hosting provider to remove (that part
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245 of) your blog. To avoid having to activate its own lawyers, your blog
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246 hosting provider may very well decide to pull (that part of) your blog,
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247 especially if you're paying little or nothing to host your blog. In fact,
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248 if your blog is on its own domain, there's yet another canidate for the
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249 weakest link, in that anybody who wants your blog gone can simply appeal
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250 to your domain's registrar. (Recall the WikiLeaks case, for example.)
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251 On AnoNet, you can easily host your own blog, forcing attacks against
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252 your hosting arrangements to go through you (or at least through _all_
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253 of your peers). Your domain is even harder to attack, since wiping your
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254 domain off of a single resdb repository would only prevent one AnoNet
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255 user from seeing it (and a simple git rollback would fix the situation
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256 even for that individual user). Moreover, the deletion would quickly
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257 propagate throughout AnoNet, potentially raising alarms everywhere.
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258 (Even if only a single user notices the attack and re-adds your domain,
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259 his own re-addition will quickly propagate throughout AnoNet, restoring
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260 access to your domain for everybody.)
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262 =item Publish
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265 ("Alms for Jihad" comes to mind as one obvious example, where the
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267 buried the copyright.) While physical books may not be so simple to
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268 publish on AnoNet (although you can certainly raise awareness of them
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269 by speaking out about them on AnoNet), e-books enjoy considerable
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270 anti-censorship advantages on AnoNet.
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272 =item Teach
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274 You may want to teach disciplines that can get you into friction with "the
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275 authorities" in a tyrannical regime. (Judges in prominent first-world
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276 countries have ruled, for example, that knowing your way around a computer
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277 is an indication that you may be involved in computer-related crimes.)
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278 AnoNet gives you an opportunity to teach without your students being
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279 able to point you out to the authorities, even under pain of torture.
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281 =item Report
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283 You may find yourself in the middle of a news story, but other parts
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284 of that news story may not appreciate your reports. When you report
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285 something to WikiLeaks without going through tor, you're leaving a long
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286 trail that may lead to you. With AnoNet, you can hide that trail to
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287 a certain extent, if you don't want to use tor directly. (WikiLeaks
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288 over tor will still give you better protection than AnoNet, if you're
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289 worried about your government's intelligence agencies getting involved.
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290 AnoNet's optimization towards pseudonymity with common IcannNet protocols
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291 is the weakness, here. We're working on that, but in the meantime you
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292 have L<tor|http://www.torproject.org/>, L<i2p|http://www.i2p2.de/>,
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293 L<Freenet|http://freenetproject.org/>, L<GNUnet|http://gnunet.org/>,
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294 and others.)
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296 =back
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298 =head2 Why Not to Join
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300 If you're looking for a ready-made community, where you just show up and
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301 "browse," AnoNet (either 1 or 2) is probably not quite what you're after.
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302 The whole concept behind AnoNet is that it's whatever you make it.
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303 Of course, that's not to say you'll have to build everything from
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304 scratch, but if you want to be happy here, you're best off bringing
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305 your creativity along rather than leaving it behind when you join.
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306 (If you've been around darknets before, you're probably quite familiar
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307 with "design by committee." On AnoNet, you're more than welcome to
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308 invite a committee to discuss anything you want, but you don't have to
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309 organize one before doing anything. If (you think) you already know
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310 what you're doing, just "build it and they will come.")
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312 =head2 What You Can Do
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314 See the L<Services|http://www.anonet2.org/services> page
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316 =head2 What You Can't Yet Do
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320 =item Newsgroups (Usenet)
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321
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322 The guy who said he was bringing usenet to anonet seems to have died,
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323 and the project apparently died with him.
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325 =item A-Commerce
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327 Getting Anonymous Commerce right takes a bit of effort, since nearly
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328 all governments regulate the exchange of anything that has value, in an
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329 attempt to preserve their power structure. A-Commerce is a core goal
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330 of AnoNet, though, and we hope to achieve it someday.
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332 =item Watch TV
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333
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334 While the AnoNet backbone, at this point, is capable of sustaining
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335 real-time video streaming, there are still some technical and
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336 anonymity-preservation problems to solve before anybody here is likely
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337 to feel safe broadcasting TV.
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339 =back
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341 If you want something that's not on either list, you'll either have to
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342 set it up yourself, or con somebody else into setting it up himself. (If
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343 it's something that others are likely to find useful and/or interesting,
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344 you'll probably have an easy time recruiting guys to help you out.)
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346 =head2 What You Can Contribute
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348 Well, each of us has his own wishlist, but most of us are working on
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349 moving stuff from our TODO lists to our DONE lists, so you're looking
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350 at a bit of a moving (and highly subjective) target. You're more than
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351 welcome to contribute anything you want, and if it's interesting and/or
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352 useful, it'll probably attract a following. That said, here are a number
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353 of things that would benefit the AnoNet as a whole:
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355 =over
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357 =item Client Ports
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359 When a new user wants to connect, he'll normally come in through a
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360 client port. The more client ports are available, the harder it is for
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361 any individual client port to abuse its position (for example, if the
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362 local government decides to try regulating it).
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364 =item Public Email Services
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366 Nomius runs a public mail service, and lex is working on another one.
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367 While more than 2 public mail services clearly aren't necessary at this
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368 stage, too many is better than too few.
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370 =item IRC Servers
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372 IRC on AnoNet2 isn't one big network under centralized control.
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373 Rather, anybody who wants runs his own IRC (or other chat) server, and
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374 links whatever channels he wants to channels on other servers, using a
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375 collection of relay bots. (Right now, UFO, pragmo and SRN field relays,
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376 and the scalability problems are becoming visible. How relay bots may
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377 want to deal with this is still a topic for open discussion. Feel free
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378 to join in the discussion, or just do your own thing and let everyone
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379 else be damned.)
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381 Update: UFO implemented udpmsg3 (inspired by r101's udpmsg protocol),
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382 and UFO, SRN, and sevilNatas all have IRC servers connecting to the
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383 udpmsg3 "cloud" now. The nice thing about udpmsg3 is that it's truly
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384 decentralized, and very difficult to censor.
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386 =item Outbound HTTP Proxies
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388 SRN runs three right now and ryuk runs one, but that means between the
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389 two of them they can snoop on all HTTP traffic from AnoNet2 to IcannNet.
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390 Having more proxies gives you an alternative to blindly trusting SRN
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391 and ryuk not to sell your click-through data to Google, invert the order
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392 of search results to your queries, and inject malicious JavaScript into
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393 your Hotmail homepage.
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395 =item IcannNet mailinglist Proxies
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397 AnoNet uses a lot of software in new and interesting ways, so AnoNet
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398 users find "accidental features" quite often. If there were an easy
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399 way to join the official mailing lists for some of this software, AnoNet
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400 users would probably submit many more bug reports, resulting in better
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401 quality software being available for us.
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405 =head2 Assholes
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406
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407 We finally found L<our first asshole|http://www.anonet2.org/assholes>.
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409 =head2 See Also
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411 If AnoNet sounds good but not perfect, don't despair: there are a number
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412 of other projects that may interest you either instead of - or possibly
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413 in addition to - AnoNet.
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417 =item L<dn42|http://www.dn42.net/>
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419 dn42 is another highly decentralized darknet, and it's also quite
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420 friendly. The main differences are that it doesn't claim anonymity as
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421 a goal, and that it's significantly larger than AnoNet. A number of
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422 AnoNet members are also active in dn42.
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424 =item L<VAnet|http://www.vanet.org/>
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426 VAnet is a strange animal. It's a highly I<centralized> darknet, making
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427 the curious claim that centralization actually aids in privacy protection.
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428 It's still quite small, but it should scale extremely well from a
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429 technical perspective, due to its centralization. VAnet's official IRC
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430 is part of the AnoNet IRC monster for now, so the easiest way to find out
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431 more about VAnet is actually just to join AnoNet IRC and ask about VAnet.
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433 =item L<UCIS IX|http://ix.ucis.nl/>
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435 The UCIS Internet eXchange is an attempt to link a bunch of darknets
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436 together. If you connect using UFO's CP, you're already on the UCIS IX.
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438 =back