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1 =head1 AnoNet, Take 2!
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3 Welcome to AnoNet! AnoNet is a highly decentralized darknet, aiming to create a censorship resistant network free from government influence and restrictions. AnoNet uses an IP network to accomplish this, as an alternative to the existing internet.
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8 =item *
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9 L<anonymity in general and its place in AnoNet in particular|http://www.anonet2.org/anonymity>
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11 L<darknet comparison page|http://www.anonet2.org/darknet_comparison>
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13 L<AnoNet FAQ|http://www.anonet2.org/faq>
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15 L<quick introduction to darknets and anonymity in general and AnoNet2 in particular|http://www.anonet2.org/intro>
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18 =head2 How to Join
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20 There are many ways to join AnoNet. If you just want to hang out with
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23 =begin xhtml
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26 <tr><th>Protocol</th><th>Service</th><th>Anonymity</th></tr>
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27 <tr><td>HTTP WebChatZ<></td><td>L<KwaakNet|http://anonet.serveirc.com/></td><td>Hidden IP, username and realname, custom nickname (note 1)</td></tr>
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28 <tr><td>HTTP WebChatZ<></td><td>L<KwaakNet|http://anortr.ucis.nl:8086/?channels=anonet&nick=Anonymous></td><td>Hidden IP, username and realname, custom nickname (note 1)</td></tr>
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29 <tr><td>HTTP WebChatZ<></td><td>L<KwaakNet|http://webchat.kwaaknet.org/?c=AnoNet></td><td>Visible IP, hidden username and realname, custom nickname (warning!) (note 1)</td></tr>
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30 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<SRN|irc://anortr.ucis.nl:8804/RendezVous></td><td>Hidden IP, username and realname (note 2)</td></tr>
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31 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<SRN (tor)|irc://2dmrunyyp6bp53th.onion/RendezVous></td><td>Hidden IP, username and realname (note 2)</td></tr>
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32 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<SRN2|irc://anortr.ucis.nl:8806/anonet></td><td>Hidden IP, username and realname (note 2)</td></tr>
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33 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<SRN2 (tor)|irc://w53qxqs27amlrwnm.onion/anonet></td><td>Hidden IP, username and realname (note 2)</td></tr>
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34 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<UFO|irc://anortr.ucis.nl:8805/anonet></td><td>Hidden IP, visible username and realname</td></tr>
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35 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<UFO|irc://irc.kwaaknet.org:6667/anonet></td><td>Visible IP, username and realname (warning!)</td></tr>
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36 <tr><td>TelnetZ<></td><td>L<SRN|telnet://anortr.ucis.nl:8803/></td><td>Hidden IP and username, custom nickname</td></tr>
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43 Note 2: your IRC client always sends your configured username, realname and possibly also hostname. Although this information is not directly visible to other chat users, it may be sent in clear text over the internet and over anonet. You should therefore always properly configure your IRC client!
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45 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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47 Once you're online, you can reconnect to IRC from inside AnoNet:
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54 <tr><td>HTTP WebChatZ<></td><td>L<KwaakNet|http://anortr.ucis.ano:8086/?channels=anonet&nick=Anonymous></td><td>L<KwaakNet|http://1.3.3.2:8086/?channels=anonet&nick=Anonymous></td><td>Hidden IP, username and realname, custom nickname (note 1)</td></tr>
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57 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<sevilNatas|irc://irc.sevilnatas.ano:6667/anonet></td><td></td><td>Unknown</td></tr>
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68 For more information about anonimity on IRC, see L<this page|irc_anonimity>.
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72 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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74 =head2 Why to Join
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77 join AnoNet|http://www.anonet2.org/links>.)
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79 You'd want to join AnoNet2 for the same reasons as you'd want to join
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80 AnoNet1: to exercise your freedom of speech and action, without having
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81 to worry too much about people who don't like you making too many
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82 connections between your online and offline identities. Unlike AnoNet1,
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83 we're not nazis about our rules, so if you don't feel the need to conceal
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84 your real-life identity, we won't get all mad at you. Just please be
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85 considerate of those who would like to stay anonymous ("pseudonomous,"
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86 technically), and everybody is happy. (For more discussion on this
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87 topic in particular, you may want to check out L<a separate page
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88 here|http://www.anonet2.org/anonymity>.)
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90 A secondary reason for joining is to gain an opportunity to experiment
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91 with internet technologies without breaking "the real thing." While
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92 that's not the purpose behind AnoNet, it seems to be a common reason
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93 for joining, and as long as you don't break too much with your fun,
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94 you're more than welcome to have your fun here.
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96 You may want to join for the social scene (we even have our own social
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98 or you may want to create your own social scene. Again, you're not
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99 looking at an "official" reason for joining, but nobody owns AnoNet, so
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100 "official" is an artificial term 'round here.
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103 Science homework. Due to AnoNet's nature, many of the guys who hang
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104 out here have an academic background in one (or more) of the above,
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105 and most are quite happy to help students.
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107 If you're interested in starting your own darknet, you can get plenty of
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108 advice here. In addition, the AnoNet2 infrastructure is easy to reuse
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109 for any other darknet, by design. (Technical ease of forking is a core
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110 goal of AnoNet2. We avoid forks only by being good enough so nobody
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114 piling up around the world against the public Internet. Since the
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115 "public" Internet is owned and managed by a number of multinational
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116 corporations, it's fairly easy for governments to regulate it. Part of
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117 the main purpose behind AnoNet has always been to get away from those
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118 private control points, in order to create a truly public internet.
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119 In AnoNet1, anybody who can regulate crzydmnd can regulate AnoNet1's
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120 "official" wiki (and by extension, its resource "database"), and
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121 anybody who can regulate Kaos can regulate AnoNet1's "official" client
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123 point problem hasn't quite been solved there. AnoNet2 is still largely
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124 controlled by UFO and somerandomnick, but we have both technical and
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125 administrative measures in place to ensure that as the network grows,
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126 the two of us will no longer have enough control to destroy the network,
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133 =item Relay> [Ivo @ KN] governments do not intend to harm everybody
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135 =item Relay> [Ivo @ KN] some criminals just intend harm everybody
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137 =item somerandomnick> and some governments do, too
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139 =item Relay> [Ivo @ KN] they usually at least pretend to be good for some people
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141 =item somerandomnick> People are people.
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143 =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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145 =item somerandomnick> It doesn't really matter that much what hat a guy is wearing.
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147 =item somerandomnick> A government is just a pretty face for a person to hide behind.
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149 =item somerandomnick> It doesn't actually mean anything beyond "I'm stronger than you, so I make decisions for you."
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151 =item somerandomnick> A person's government should be his own brain. You should never outsource your free choice.
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153 =item Relay> [anonno @ KN] you know what, you could use this as a marketing tool for anonet ;)
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157 =head2 The AnoNet Advantage
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159 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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163 =item Read Headlines
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165 If you only read the headlines from your local news (without clicking
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166 through to interesting stories, etc.), your anonymity on AnoNet is
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167 actually significantly _worse_ than on IcannNet, because you're giving
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168 away geolocation information that your IcannNet ISP already knows but
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169 that AnoNet probably doesn't.
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171 =item Read News
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174 giving away information that your ISP probably wouldn't already know.
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175 However, if you read local news it's probably still wise to avoid AnoNet.
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176 (You can still use tor directly.)
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178 =item Just Browse
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180 If you just surf aimlessly for hours, you are giving away a lot of
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181 profiling information to your ISP. With the AnoNet proxies, you can
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182 avoid giving your ISP any of this information. (You are still giving the
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183 same information to the AnoNet proxies if you don't use SSL tunneling,
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184 but AnoNet proxies can't connect the profiling information with your
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185 real-life identity, while your ISP (and anybody who can get your ISP
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186 records) certainly can.) Surfing with AnoNet also means that you don't
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187 need to worry about your government filtering policies getting in your
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188 way while you surf.
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190 =item Browse WikiLeaks
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192 If you're located in a totalitarian regime, your ISP may not allow you
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193 to access WikiLeaks. Even if you are located in a less totalitarian
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194 regime, your government may monitor your WikiLeaks browsing habits.
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195 AnoNet allows you to browse WikiLeaks without your ISP preventing or
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196 monitoring your visits.
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198 =item Do Research
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200 AnoNet shines here. Governments can force Google to cough up your
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201 search history, but only if Google can figure out which searches you're
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202 responsible for. If you use Scroogle (HTTPS) through one of AnoNet's
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203 HTTP proxies, the proxy doesn't know what you're looking for, Scroogle
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204 has no clue who you are, and by the time the search makes its way to
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205 Google, connecting it to you is all but hopeless.
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207 =item Discuss the WikiLeaks insurance.aes256 File
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209 If you and your friends were hoping to talk together
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210 about your experience trying to decrypt the file on
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211 abovetopsecret's forums, you probably saw L<this complaint from a
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212 moderator|http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread598787/pg23#pid9331623>.
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213 After quoting from L<the terms and conditions
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215 B<Going forward, please remember that we cannot discuss how to "break"
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216 this file open. We're only allowed to discuss the topic at hand, which
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217 is the posting of the encrypted document itself, and what it I<may>
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218 contain.> AnoNet doesn't have a terms and conditions page, so you're
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223 BitTorrent doesn't hide your IP address, so seeding files for
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224 L<TPB|http://www.thepiratebay.org/> is not necessarily safe. BitTorrent
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225 on AnoNet doesn't hide your IP address either, but the authorities can't
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226 easily connect your AnoNet IP address with your IcannNet IP address
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227 (in order to get your ISP to reveal your identity).
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235 If your blog is easy to connect to your offline identity (say, it
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236 has your name and address, and/or dwells primarily on local issues),
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237 then moving it to AnoNet obviously won't gain you much anonymity.
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238 On the other hand, if it's "just another random blog," AnoNet has the
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239 potential to keep it that way. For example, if you like to tell readers
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240 about your experience with various products, you always run the risk of
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241 having to defend yourself against a lawsuit if a corporate lawyer decides
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242 his client would be better served if your critical review went away.
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243 Now, since defending yourself in any court of law is never a trivial
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244 matter (since the judges in nearly all first-world countries assume
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245 that you know all the laws, regulations, relevant case histories,
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246 civil procedures, etc. - you know, the stuff you'd normally spend
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247 years in law school learning how to make sense of), you may decide
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248 that publishing your blog on IcannNet simply isn't worth the risk.
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249 On AnoNet, your blog is pretty well-protected against civil liability
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250 lawsuits, since before a lawyer can sue you, he first has to find you.
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251 (While there are legal mechanisms in place in many countries to allow a
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252 lawsuit to get started even when the defendant is unknown, it should be
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253 pretty obvious that a court will need to find out who you are before it
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254 can meaningfully involve you in a case. If you've done your homework,
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255 the cost of finding you will far outweigh the benefit, especially if the
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256 plaintiff knows he has no real case against you and was simply hoping to
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257 intimidate you.) In addition, the company hosting your IcannNet blog
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258 almost certainly allows itself to delete (any part of) your blog in
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259 its own sole discretion without even notifying you. That potentially
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260 allows a lawyer with an upset client to take a shortcut and bypass you
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261 entirely, simply "asking" your blog hosting provider to remove (that part
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262 of) your blog. To avoid having to activate its own lawyers, your blog
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263 hosting provider may very well decide to pull (that part of) your blog,
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264 especially if you're paying little or nothing to host your blog. In fact,
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265 if your blog is on its own domain, there's yet another canidate for the
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266 weakest link, in that anybody who wants your blog gone can simply appeal
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267 to your domain's registrar. (Recall the WikiLeaks case, for example.)
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268 On AnoNet, you can easily host your own blog, forcing attacks against
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269 your hosting arrangements to go through you (or at least through _all_
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270 of your peers). Your domain is even harder to attack, since wiping your
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271 domain off of a single resdb repository would only prevent one AnoNet
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272 user from seeing it (and a simple git rollback would fix the situation
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273 even for that individual user). Moreover, the deletion would quickly
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274 propagate throughout AnoNet, potentially raising alarms everywhere.
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275 (Even if only a single user notices the attack and re-adds your domain,
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276 his own re-addition will quickly propagate throughout AnoNet, restoring
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277 access to your domain for everybody.)
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279 =item Publish
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282 ("Alms for Jihad" comes to mind as one obvious example, where the
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283 publisher went so far as to delete the book from its own database and
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284 buried the copyright.) While physical books may not be so simple to
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285 publish on AnoNet (although you can certainly raise awareness of them
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286 by speaking out about them on AnoNet), e-books enjoy considerable
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287 anti-censorship advantages on AnoNet.
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289 =item Teach
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290
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291 You may want to teach disciplines that can get you into friction with "the
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292 authorities" in a tyrannical regime. (Judges in prominent first-world
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293 countries have ruled, for example, that knowing your way around a computer
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294 is an indication that you may be involved in computer-related crimes.)
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295 AnoNet gives you an opportunity to teach without your students being
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296 able to point you out to the authorities, even under pain of torture.
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298 =item Report
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300 You may find yourself in the middle of a news story, but other parts
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301 of that news story may not appreciate your reports. When you report
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302 something to WikiLeaks without going through tor, you're leaving a long
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303 trail that may lead to you. With AnoNet, you can hide that trail to
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304 a certain extent, if you don't want to use tor directly. (WikiLeaks
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305 over tor will still give you better protection than AnoNet, if you're
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306 worried about your government's intelligence agencies getting involved.
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307 AnoNet's optimization towards pseudonymity with common IcannNet protocols
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308 is the weakness, here. We're working on that, but in the meantime you
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309 have L<tor|http://www.torproject.org/>, L<i2p|http://www.i2p2.de/>,
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310 L<Freenet|http://freenetproject.org/>, L<GNUnet|http://gnunet.org/>,
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311 and others.)
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313 =back
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315 =head2 Why Not to Join
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317 If you're looking for a ready-made community, where you just show up and
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318 "browse," AnoNet (either 1 or 2) is probably not quite what you're after.
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319 The whole concept behind AnoNet is that it's whatever you make it.
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320 Of course, that's not to say you'll have to build everything from
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321 scratch, but if you want to be happy here, you're best off bringing
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322 your creativity along rather than leaving it behind when you join.
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323 (If you've been around darknets before, you're probably quite familiar
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324 with "design by committee." On AnoNet, you're more than welcome to
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325 invite a committee to discuss anything you want, but you don't have to
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326 organize one before doing anything. If (you think) you already know
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327 what you're doing, just "build it and they will come.")
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329 =head2 What You Can Do
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331 See the L<Services|http://www.anonet2.org/services> page
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333 =head2 What You Can't Yet Do
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335 =over
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337 =item Newsgroups (Usenet)
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338
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339 The guy who said he was bringing usenet to anonet seems to have died,
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340 and the project apparently died with him.
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342 =item A-Commerce
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343
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344 Getting Anonymous Commerce right takes a bit of effort, since nearly
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345 all governments regulate the exchange of anything that has value, in an
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346 attempt to preserve their power structure. A-Commerce is a core goal
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347 of AnoNet, though, and we hope to achieve it someday.
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349 =item Watch TV
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350
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351 While the AnoNet backbone, at this point, is capable of sustaining
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352 real-time video streaming, there are still some technical and
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353 anonymity-preservation problems to solve before anybody here is likely
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354 to feel safe broadcasting TV.
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356 =back
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358 If you want something that's not on either list, you'll either have to
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359 set it up yourself, or con somebody else into setting it up himself. (If
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360 it's something that others are likely to find useful and/or interesting,
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361 you'll probably have an easy time recruiting guys to help you out.)
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363 =head2 What You Can Contribute
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364
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365 Well, each of us has his own wishlist, but most of us are working on
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366 moving stuff from our TODO lists to our DONE lists, so you're looking
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367 at a bit of a moving (and highly subjective) target. You're more than
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368 welcome to contribute anything you want, and if it's interesting and/or
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369 useful, it'll probably attract a following. That said, here are a number
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370 of things that would benefit the AnoNet as a whole:
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372 =over
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374 =item Client Ports
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375
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376 When a new user wants to connect, he'll normally come in through a
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377 client port. The more client ports are available, the harder it is for
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378 any individual client port to abuse its position (for example, if the
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379 local government decides to try regulating it).
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381 =item Public Email Services
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383 Nomius runs a public mail service, and lex is working on another one.
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384 While more than 2 public mail services clearly aren't necessary at this
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385 stage, too many is better than too few.
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387 =item IRC Servers
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389 IRC on AnoNet2 isn't one big network under centralized control.
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390 Rather, anybody who wants runs his own IRC (or other chat) server, and
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391 links whatever channels he wants to channels on other servers, using a
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392 collection of relay bots. (Right now, UFO, pragmo and SRN field relays,
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393 and the scalability problems are becoming visible. How relay bots may
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394 want to deal with this is still a topic for open discussion. Feel free
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395 to join in the discussion, or just do your own thing and let everyone
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396 else be damned.)
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398 Update: UFO implemented udpmsg3 (inspired by r101's udpmsg protocol),
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399 and UFO, SRN, sevilNatas and lex all have IRC servers connecting to the
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400 udpmsg3 "cloud" now. The primary advantages of udpmsg3 are that it's
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401 truly decentralized, very difficult to censor, fails over gracefully in
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402 case of hardware/software failures without dropping messages and without
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403 duplicating messages, and avoids the long relay chains that normally
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406 =item Outbound HTTP Proxies
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408 SRN runs three right now and ryuk runs one, but that means between the
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409 two of them they can snoop on all HTTP traffic from AnoNet2 to IcannNet.
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410 Having more proxies gives you an alternative to blindly trusting SRN
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411 and ryuk not to sell your click-through data to Google, invert the order
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412 of search results to your queries, and inject malicious JavaScript into
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413 your Hotmail homepage.
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415 =item IcannNet mailinglist Proxies
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417 AnoNet uses a lot of software in new and interesting ways, so AnoNet
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418 users find "accidental features" quite often. If there were an easy
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419 way to join the official mailing lists for some of this software, AnoNet
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420 users would probably submit many more bug reports, resulting in better
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421 quality software being available for us.
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423 =back
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425 =head2 Assholes
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427 We finally found L<our first asshole|http://www.anonet2.org/assholes>.
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429 =head2 See Also
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431 If AnoNet sounds good but not perfect, don't despair: there are a number
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432 of other projects that may interest you either instead of - or possibly
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433 in addition to - AnoNet.
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435 =over
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437 =item L<dn42|http://www.dn42.net/>
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439 dn42 is another highly decentralized darknet, and it's also quite
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440 friendly. The main differences are that it doesn't claim anonymity as
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441 a goal, and that it's significantly larger than AnoNet. A number of
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442 AnoNet members are also active in dn42.
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444 =item L<VAnet|http://www.vanet.org/>
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446 VAnet is a strange animal. It's a highly I<centralized> darknet, making
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447 the curious claim that centralization actually aids in privacy protection.
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448 It's still quite small, but it should scale extremely well from a
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449 technical perspective, due to its centralization. VAnet's official IRC
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450 is part of the AnoNet IRC monster for now, so the easiest way to find out
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451 more about VAnet is actually just to join AnoNet IRC and ask about VAnet.
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453 =item L<UCIS IX|http://ix.ucis.nl/>
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455 The UCIS Internet eXchange is an attempt to link a bunch of darknets
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456 together. If you connect using UFO's CP, you're already on the UCIS IX.
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