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3 (Note: There's now L<a page explaining a bit about anonymity in general and its place in AnoNet in particular|http://www.anonet2.org/anonymity>.) |
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5 (Note: There's now L<a darknet comparison page, where you can compare and contrast the various darknet options|http://www.anonet2.org/darknet_comparison>).) |
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7 (Note: There's now L<a separate page, to answer all your AnoNet-related questions|http://www.anonet2.org/faq>).) |
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| 9 So, you came across anoNet and thought it sounded great, so you decided | |
| 10 to join in order to check it out. | |
| 11 | |
| 12 ...and found the (only) client port doesn't work half the time, | |
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14 ...and the (only) official wiki doesn't work the other half of the time, |
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| 137 | 16 ...and most of the advertised services no longer exist, |
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| 18 ...and most of the people have left, | |
| 19 | |
| 20 ...and those who are left can hardly be classified as friendly, | |
| 21 | |
| 22 ...and so you left, and perhaps found another darknet instead. | |
| 23 | |
| 24 Well, you're not the only one who's been turned off, and a few of us | |
| 25 have decided to take action and fix AnoNet. Some of us are relatively | |
| 26 new, while others joined AnoNet1 years ago, and left out of disgust. | |
| 27 A number of features set version 2 apart from the original: | |
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| 29 =over | |
| 30 | |
| 31 =item No false advertising | |
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| 33 If you see something advertised here, it exists. You won't see stuff | |
| 34 that hasn't been up in years here. (This page is easy to update from | |
| 35 within AnoNet2 by anybody who has an update/correction to make, and | |
| 36 changes normally propagate within no more than a few days.) | |
| 37 | |
| 38 =item No centralized network control | |
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| 40 You don't have to worry about Kaos waking up one morning and blocking | |
| 41 your access to the whole network by deciding to filter private ASNs. | |
| 42 You also don't have to worry about a couple of powerful guys getting | |
| 43 together and "blacklisting" you from the network for some unspecified | |
| 44 reason with an inquisition against your peers. | |
| 45 | |
| 46 =item No centralized IRC control | |
| 47 | |
| 48 You don't have to worry about risc g-lining you from the "official" IRC | |
| 49 network for no apparent reason, and refusing to even admit to having | |
| 50 g-lined you. Since the whole purpose behind AnoNet was to create a | |
| 51 censorship-resistant alternative to the government-censored "public" | |
| 52 Internet, arbitrary censorship on the "official" AnoNet1 IRC network by | |
| 53 anonymous government members is particularly troubling. AnoNet2 has | |
| 54 no "official" IRC network, and the servers most commonly used have | |
| 55 interesting channels bridged with a relay bot, so even if you manage to | |
| 56 annoy an IRC server operator to the point where he decides to g-line you | |
| 57 from his whole "network," that doesn't automatically prevent you from | |
| 58 connecting to another server and accessing one of the bridged channels. | |
| 59 (Obviously, if you manage to annoy the operators of all the linked servers | |
| 60 to the point where all of them g-line you from their respective "networks" | |
| 61 and nobody wants to let you relay your own server in, then you're probably | |
| 62 out of luck. Of course, that doesn't prevent you from running your own | |
| 63 IRC server, and those who want to hear you can still join it.) | |
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67 AnoNet2 doesn't have an official wiki, and two (L<this one|http://www.anonet2.org/> and L<some random wiki|http://www.somerandomwiki.ano/>) out of the three well-known wikis on AnoNet2 use git for their underlying storage, and are therefore very easy for anybody to proxy, mirror, fork, etc. (The last one is L<UFO's wiki|http://wiki.ucis.ano/>, and UFO is addicted to MediaWiki.) (BTW, we now have a fourth "well-known" wiki, L<our AnoNet1 Wiki Mirror|Http://1.82.98.27/mediawiki/>: Since AnoNet1's official wiki seems to have more downtime than uptime, we figured we might as well donate a mirror to the cause.) |
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| 137 | 69 =item No resource mess |
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| 71 We have one mechanism for resource management, a decentralized (not just | |
| 72 distributed, but truly decentralized) resource database. You don't have | |
| 73 to deal with half a zillion incompatible (and in the case of the wiki, | |
| 74 down) services, run by guys who may not even be on the AnoNet tomorrow. | |
| 75 Managing your resources is as simple as taking a VI to the appropriate | |
| 76 files, doing a "git commit," and then just waiting for everybody else to | |
| 77 pull your changes (either directly from you, or indirectly from others | |
| 78 who pull from you). | |
| 79 | |
| 80 =item No arbitrary rules | |
| 81 | |
| 82 If you read the advertising for AnoNet, you probably think it's whatever | |
| 83 you make of it. Sadly, there's a tiny handful of people who have control | |
| 84 over most of the network, and make new (unwritten) rules whenever the | |
| 85 mood strikes them. The sum of those rules is that AnoNet is whatever | |
| 86 I<they> make of it. In version 2, we've undertaken to fix that, by both | |
| 87 technical and administrative means. AnoNet2 not only has no arbitrary | |
| 88 rules - it has no rules whatsoever. | |
| 89 | |
| 90 =back |