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1 =head1 AnoNet2 Introduction
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3 (Note: There's now a page (L<http://www.anonet2.org/anonymity>) explaining
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4 a bit about anonymity in general and its place in AnoNet in particular.)
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6 (Note: There's now a darknet comparison page
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7 (L<http://www.anonet2.org/darknet_comparison>), where you can compare
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8 and contrast the various darknet options.)
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10 (Note: There's now a separate page (L<http://www.anonet2.org/faq>),
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11 to answer all your AnoNet-related questions.)
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12
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13 So, you came across anoNet and thought it sounded great, so you decided
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14 to join in order to check it out.
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15
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16 ...and found the (only) client port doesn't work half the time,
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17
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18 ...and most of the advertised services no longer exist,
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19
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20 ...and most of the people have left,
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21
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22 ...and those who are left can hardly be classified as friendly,
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23
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24 ...and so you left, and perhaps found another darknet instead.
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25
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26 Well, you're not the only one who's been turned off, and a few of us
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27 have decided to take action and fix AnoNet. Some of us are relatively
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28 new, while others joined AnoNet1 years ago, and left out of disgust.
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29 A number of features set version 2 apart from the original:
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31 =over
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33 =item No false advertising
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35 If you see something advertised here, it exists. You won't see stuff
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36 that hasn't been up in years here. (This page is easy to update from
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37 within AnoNet2 by anybody who has an update/correction to make, and
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38 changes normally propagate within no more than a few days.)
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39
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40 =item No centralized network control
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42 You don't have to worry about Kaos waking up one morning and blocking
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43 your access to the whole network by deciding to filter private ASNs.
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44 You also don't have to worry about a couple of powerful guys getting
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45 together and "blacklisting" you from the network for some unspecified
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46 reason with an inquisition against your peers.
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47
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48 =item No centralized IRC control
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50 You don't have to worry about risc g-lining you from the "official" IRC
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51 network for no apparent reason, and refusing to even admit to having
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52 g-lined you. Since the whole purpose behind AnoNet was to create a
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53 censorship-resistant alternative to the government-censored "public"
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54 Internet, arbitrary censorship on the "official" AnoNet1 IRC network by
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55 anonymous government members is particularly troubling. AnoNet2 has
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56 no "official" IRC network, and the servers most commonly used have
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57 interesting channels bridged with a relay bot, so even if you manage to
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58 annoy an IRC server operator to the point where he decides to g-line you
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59 from his whole "network," that doesn't automatically prevent you from
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60 connecting to another server and accessing one of the bridged channels.
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61 (Obviously, if you manage to annoy the operators of all the linked servers
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62 to the point where all of them g-line you from their respective "networks"
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63 and nobody wants to let you relay your own server in, then you're probably
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64 out of luck. Of course, that doesn't prevent you from running your own
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65 IRC server, and those who want to hear you can still join it.)
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67 =item No resource mess
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69 We have one mechanism for resource management, a decentralized (not just
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70 distributed, but truly decentralized) resource database. You don't have
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71 to deal with half a zillion incompatible (and in the case of the wiki,
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72 down) services, run by guys who may not even be on the AnoNet tomorrow.
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73 Managing your resources is as simple as taking a VI to the appropriate
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74 files, doing a "git commit," and then just waiting for everybody else to
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75 pull your changes (either directly from you, or indirectly from others
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76 who pull from you).
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78 =item No arbitrary rules
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80 If you read the advertising for AnoNet, you probably think it's whatever
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81 you make of it. Sadly, there's a tiny handful of people who have control
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82 over most of the network, and make new (unwritten) rules whenever the
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83 mood strikes them. The sum of those rules is that AnoNet is whatever
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84 I<they> make of it. In version 2, we've undertaken to fix that, by both
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85 technical and administrative means. AnoNet2 not only has no arbitrary
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86 rules - it has no rules whatsoever.
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87
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88 =back
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