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22 =item webchat
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23 L<KwaakNet|http://anortr.ucis.nl:8086/?channels=anonet&nick=Anonymous> (anonymous)
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27 =item IRC chat
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40 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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80 join AnoNet|http://www.anonet2.org/links>.)
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83 AnoNet1: to exercise your freedom of speech and action, without having
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84 to worry too much about people who don't like you making too many
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93 A secondary reason for joining is to gain an opportunity to experiment
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138 =item Relay> [Ivo @ KN] some criminals just intend harm everybody
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140 =item somerandomnick> and some governments do, too
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142 =item Relay> [Ivo @ KN] they usually at least pretend to be good for some people
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144 =item somerandomnick> People are people.
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146 =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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148 =item somerandomnick> It doesn't really matter that much what hat a guy is wearing.
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150 =item somerandomnick> A government is just a pretty face for a person to hide behind.
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152 =item somerandomnick> It doesn't actually mean anything beyond "I'm stronger than you, so I make decisions for you."
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154 =item somerandomnick> A person's government should be his own brain. You should never outsource your free choice.
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156 =item Relay> [anonno @ KN] you know what, you could use this as a marketing tool for anonet ;)
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160 =head2 The AnoNet Advantage
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161
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162 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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164 =over
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166 =item Read Headlines
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168 If you only read the headlines from your local news (without clicking
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169 through to interesting stories, etc.), your anonymity on AnoNet is
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170 actually significantly _worse_ than on IcannNet, because you're giving
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171 away geolocation information that your IcannNet ISP already knows but
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172 that AnoNet probably doesn't.
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174 =item Read News
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177 giving away information that your ISP probably wouldn't already know.
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178 However, if you read local news it's probably still wise to avoid AnoNet.
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179 (You can still use tor directly.)
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181 =item Do Research
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183 AnoNet shines here. Governments can force Google to cough up your
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184 search history, but only if Google can figure out which searches you're
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185 responsible for. If you use Scroogle (HTTPS) through one of AnoNet's
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186 HTTP proxies, the proxy doesn't know what you're looking for, Scroogle
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187 has no clue who you are, and by the time the search makes its way to
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188 Google, connecting it to you is all but hopeless.
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190 =item Share Files
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192 BitTorrent doesn't hide your IP address, so seeding files for
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193 L<TPB|http://www.thepiratebay.org/> is not necessarily safe. BitTorrent
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194 on AnoNet doesn't hide your IP address either, but the authorities can't
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195 easily connect your AnoNet IP address with your IcannNet IP address
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196 (in order to get your ISP to reveal your identity).
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198 =item Speak Out
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200 If you know something that you'd like other people to know, and you fear
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201 retribution from those who would prefer for others not to know what
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202 you know, traditional IcannNet forums can be forced to turn over your
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203 IP address, which can then identify you. On AnoNet, it's comparatively
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204 easy to cover your tracks, in such a way that even your own peers would
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205 have a hard time figuring out who said whatever it was.
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207 =item Blog
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209 If your blog is easy to connect to your offline identity (say, it
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210 has your name and address, and/or dwells primarily on local issues),
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211 then moving it to AnoNet obviously won't gain you much anonymity.
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212 On the other hand, if it's "just another random blog," AnoNet has the
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213 potential to keep it that way. For example, if you like to tell readers
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214 about your experience with various products, you always run the risk of
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215 having to defend yourself against a lawsuit if a corporate lawyer decides
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216 his client would be better served if your critical review went away.
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217 Now, since defending yourself in any court of law is never a trivial
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218 matter (since the judges in nearly all first-world countries assume
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219 that you know all the laws, regulations, relevant case histories,
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220 civil procedures, etc. - you know, the stuff you'd normally spend
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221 years in law school learning how to make sense of), you may decide
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222 that publishing your blog on IcannNet simply isn't worth the risk.
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223 On AnoNet, your blog is pretty well-protected against civil liability
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224 lawsuits, since before a lawyer can sue you, he first has to find you.
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225 (While there are legal mechanisms in place in many countries to allow a
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226 lawsuit to get started even when the defendant is unknown, it should be
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227 pretty obvious that a court will need to find out who you are before it
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228 can meaningfully involve you in a case. If you've done your homework,
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229 the cost of finding you will far outweigh the benefit, especially if the
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230 plaintiff knows he has no real case against you and was simply hoping to
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231 intimidate you.) In addition, the company hosting your IcannNet blog
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232 almost certainly allows itself to delete (any part of) your blog in
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233 its own sole discretion without even notifying you. That potentially
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234 allows a lawyer with an upset client to take a shortcut and bypass you
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235 entirely, simply "asking" your blog hosting provider to remove (that part
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236 of) your blog. To avoid having to activate its own lawyers, your blog
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237 hosting provider may very well decide to pull (that part of) your blog,
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238 especially if you're paying little or nothing to host your blog. In fact,
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239 if your blog is on its own domain, there's yet another canidate for the
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240 weakest link, in that anybody who wants your blog gone can simply appeal
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241 to your domain's registrar. (Recall the WikiLeaks case, for example.)
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242 On AnoNet, you can easily host your own blog, forcing attacks against
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243 your hosting arrangements to go through you (or at least through _all_
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244 of your peers). Your domain is even harder to attack, since wiping your
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245 domain off of a single resdb repository would only prevent one AnoNet
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246 user from seeing it (and a simple git rollback would fix the situation
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247 even for that individual user). Moreover, the deletion would quickly
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248 propagate throughout AnoNet, potentially raising alarms everywhere.
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249 (Even if only a single user notices the attack and re-adds your domain,
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250 his own re-addition will quickly propagate throughout AnoNet, restoring
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251 access to your domain for everybody.)
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253 =item Publish
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256 ("Alms for Jihad" comes to mind as one obvious example, where the
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258 buried the copyright.) While physical books may not be so simple to
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259 publish on AnoNet (although you can certainly raise awareness of them
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260 by speaking out about them on AnoNet), e-books enjoy considerable
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261 anti-censorship advantages on AnoNet.
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263 =item Teach
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265 You may want to teach disciplines that can get you into friction with "the
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266 authorities" in a tyrannical regime. (Judges in prominent first-world
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268 is an indication that you may be involved in computer-related crimes.)
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269 AnoNet gives you an opportunity to teach without your students being
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272 =item Report
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274 You may find yourself in the middle of a news story, but other parts
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276 something to WikiLeaks without going through tor, you're leaving a long
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277 trail that may lead to you. With AnoNet, you can hide that trail to
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278 a certain extent, if you don't want to use tor directly. (WikiLeaks
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279 over tor will still give you better protection than AnoNet, if you're
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280 worried about your government's intelligence agencies getting involved.
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281 AnoNet's optimization towards pseudonymity with common IcannNet protocols
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282 is the weakness, here. We're working on that, but in the meantime you
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283 have L<tor|http://www.torproject.org/>, L<i2p|http://www.i2p2.de/>,
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284 L<Freenet|http://freenetproject.org/>, L<GNUnet|http://gnunet.org/>,
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285 and others.)
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287 =back
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289 =head2 Why Not to Join
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291 If you're looking for a ready-made community, where you just show up and
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292 "browse," AnoNet (either 1 or 2) is probably not quite what you're after.
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293 The whole concept behind AnoNet is that it's whatever you make it.
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294 Of course, that's not to say you'll have to build everything from
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295 scratch, but if you want to be happy here, you're best off bringing
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296 your creativity along rather than leaving it behind when you join.
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297 (If you've been around darknets before, you're probably quite familiar
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298 with "design by committee." On AnoNet, you're more than welcome to
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299 invite a committee to discuss anything you want, but you don't have to
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300 organize one before doing anything. If (you think) you already know
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301 what you're doing, just "build it and they will come.")
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303 =head2 What You Can Do
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305 Since AnoNet uses the same protocols as the public Internet, anything
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306 that's possible on the public Internet is theoretically possible on
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307 AnoNet. In practice, we don't have anything that nobody bothered to
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308 provide on AnoNet.
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310 Here's a list of things you can currently do on AnoNet2 (i.e., without
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311 having to set anything up yourself):
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317 L<AnoNet1 Wiki Mirror|http://1.82.98.27/mediawiki> (You got that right: AnoNet1 can't seem to keep their own wiki (at wiki.ano) up, so we decided to do it for them.)
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319 =item *
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321 Webchat (looking to relay to IRC, L<http://www.sevilnatas.ano/chat/>)
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322 Webchat (L<http://www.sevilnatas.ano/chat.html>)
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324 =item *
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326 L<WikiLeaks Mirror|http://wikileaks.ucis.ano/> (The real WikiLeaks may be down, but not our mirror!)
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330 L<Some Random Wiki|http://www.somerandomwiki.ano/>
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332 =item *
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334 Pastebin (without time-zone leaks, L<http://www.sevilnatas.ano/pastebin/>)
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336 =item *
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338 Encode/Decode text, binary, hex, base64, and dec/char (L<http://sevilnatas.ano/translator/>)
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340 =item *
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342 Live WorldCup Stream (offline until next year)
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344 =item *
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346 DNS (Recursive: 1.0.27.38 & 1.3.3.64; TLD: 1.0.27.37 & 1.3.3.66; Root: 1.0.27.39 & 1.3.3.65)
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350 IRC (L<irc://1.3.3.7/anonet> or L<irc://irc.somerandomnick.ano/RendezVous>)
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354 Jabber (irc.somerandomnick.ano)
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358 Web (for example, L<http://www.somerandomnick.ano/>)
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362 PSYC (psyced: IRC, Jabber, social networking, "twittering," newsgroups, etc.) (irc.somerandomnick.ano)
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366 git-based resdb (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/>, L<harald|git://1.0.169.1/ano2.git>, and possibly other repos)
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370 outbound HTTP proxies to the public Internet (L<http://a.privoxy.somerandomnick.ano:8118/> (works well), L<http://b.privoxy.somerandomnick.ano:8118/> (doesn't work) and L<http://a.polipo.somerandomnick.ano:8118/> (doesn't work))
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374 Web-based resource database viewer: L<http://ix.ucis.ano/anonet/>
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378 Decentralized Web mirroring service (at least L<http://a.mirror.somerandomnick.ano>) (technical difficulties)
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382 BitTorrent Tracker/Indexer (three separate ones, each with some cool
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383 features of its own - ask for details on IRC) (no need to worry about
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384 "Three Strikes" ISP policies)
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388 =head2 What You Can't Yet Do
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392 =item A-Mail
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394 Somebody is going to have to bring up a public email server before a-mail
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395 will be generally accessible on AnoNet. SRN has abandoned an attempt
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396 to bring a public mail server online.
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398 =item Newsgroups (Usenet)
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400 The guy who said he was bringing usenet to anonet seems to have died,
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401 and the project apparently died with him.
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403 =item A-Commerce
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404
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405 Getting Anonymous Commerce right takes a bit of effort, since nearly
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406 all governments regulate the exchange of anything that has value, in an
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407 attempt to preserve their power structure. A-Commerce is a core goal
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408 of AnoNet, though, and we hope to achieve it someday.
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410 =item Watch TV
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412 While the AnoNet backbone, at this point, is capable of sustaining
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413 real-time video streaming, there are still some technical and
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414 anonymity-preservation problems to solve before anybody here is likely
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415 to feel safe broadcasting TV.
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419 If you want something that's not on either list, you'll either have to
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420 set it up yourself, or con somebody else into setting it up himself. (If
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421 it's something that others are likely to find useful and/or interesting,
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422 you'll probably have an easy time recruiting guys to help you out.)
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424 =head2 What You Can Contribute
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425
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426 Well, each of us has his own wishlist, but most of us are working on
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427 moving stuff from our TODO lists to our DONE lists, so you're looking
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428 at a bit of a moving (and highly subjective) target. You're more than
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429 welcome to contribute anything you want, and if it's interesting and/or
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430 useful, it'll probably attract a following. That said, here are a number
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431 of things that would benefit the AnoNet as a whole:
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433 =over
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434
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435 =item Client Ports
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436
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437 When a new user wants to connect, he'll normally come in through a
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438 client port. The more client ports are available, the harder it is for
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439 any individual client port to abuse its position (for example, if the
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440 local government decides to try regulating it).
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441
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442 =item Public Email Services
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443
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444 Currently, every AnoNet user who wants an email address on AnoNet has to
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445 set up his own mailserver. AnoNet1 used to have a public email service so
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446 people could get email addresses without running their own mail servers,
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447 but it hasn't been online in nearly a year (although AnoNet1 continues to
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448 advertise it). SRN is working on setting up such an animal on AnoNet2,
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449 but competition here is a good thing.
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450
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451 =item IRC Servers
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453 IRC on AnoNet2 isn't one big network under centralized control.
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454 Rather, anybody who wants runs his own IRC (or other chat) server, and
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455 links whatever channels he wants to channels on other servers, using a
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456 collection of relay bots. (Right now, UFO, pragmo and SRN field relays,
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457 and the scalability problems are becoming visible. How relay bots may
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458 want to deal with this is still a topic for open discussion. Feel free
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459 to join in the discussion, or just do your own thing and let everyone
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460 else be damned.)
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462 =item Outbound HTTP Proxies
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464 SRN runs three right now and ryuk runs one, but that means between the
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465 two of them they can snoop on all HTTP traffic from AnoNet2 to IcannNet.
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466 Having more proxies gives you an alternative to blindly trusting SRN
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467 and ryuk not to sell your click-through data to Google, invert the order
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468 of search results to your queries, and inject malicious JavaScript into
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469 your Hotmail homepage.
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471 =back
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473 =head2 See Also
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475 If AnoNet sounds good but not perfect, don't despair: there are a number
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476 of other projects that may interest you either instead of - or possibly
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477 in addition to - AnoNet.
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481 =item L<dn42|http://www.dn42.net/>
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483 dn42 is another highly decentralized darknet, and it's also quite
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484 friendly. The main differences are that it doesn't claim anonymity as
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485 a goal, and that it's significantly larger than AnoNet. A number of
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486 AnoNet members are also active in dn42.
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488 =item L<VAnet|http://www.vanet.org/>
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490 VAnet is a strange animal. It's a highly I<centralized> darknet, making
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491 the curious claim that centralization actually aids in privacy protection.
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492 It's still quite small, but it should scale extremely well from a
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493 technical perspective, due to its centralization. VAnet's official IRC
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495 more about VAnet is actually just to join AnoNet IRC and ask about VAnet.
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497 =item L<UCIS IX|http://ix.ucis.nl/>
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499 The UCIS Internet eXchange is an attempt to link a bunch of darknets
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500 together. If you connect using UFO's CP, you're already on the UCIS IX.
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