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96 join AnoNet|http://www.anonet2.org/links>.)
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98 You'd want to join AnoNet2 for the same reasons as you'd want to join
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99 AnoNet1: to exercise your freedom of speech and action, without having
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103 your real-life identity, we won't get all mad at you. Just please be
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118 looking at an "official" reason for joining, but nobody owns AnoNet, so
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133 piling up around the world against the public Internet. Since the
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134 "public" Internet is owned and managed by a number of multinational
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135 corporations, it's fairly easy for governments to regulate it. Part of
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136 the main purpose behind AnoNet has always been to get away from those
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137 private control points, in order to create a truly public internet.
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138 In AnoNet1, anybody who can regulate crzydmnd can regulate AnoNet1's
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139 "official" wiki (and by extension, its resource "database"), and
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140 anybody who can regulate Kaos can regulate AnoNet1's "official" client
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141 port (and by extension, all new AnoNet1 users), so the private control
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142 point problem hasn't quite been solved there. AnoNet2 is still largely
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143 controlled by UFO and somerandomnick, but we have both technical and
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144 administrative measures in place to ensure that as the network grows,
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145 the two of us will no longer have enough control to destroy the network,
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146 even if our own governments ever decide to try regulating us.
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152 =item Relay> [Ivo @ KN] governments do not intend to harm everybody
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154 =item Relay> [Ivo @ KN] some criminals just intend harm everybody
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156 =item somerandomnick> and some governments do, too
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158 =item Relay> [Ivo @ KN] they usually at least pretend to be good for some people
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160 =item somerandomnick> People are people.
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162 =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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164 =item somerandomnick> It doesn't really matter that much what hat a guy is wearing.
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166 =item somerandomnick> A government is just a pretty face for a person to hide behind.
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168 =item somerandomnick> It doesn't actually mean anything beyond "I'm stronger than you, so I make decisions for you."
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170 =item somerandomnick> A person's government should be his own brain. You should never outsource your free choice.
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172 =item Relay> [anonno @ KN] you know what, you could use this as a marketing tool for anonet ;)
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174 =back
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176 =head2 The AnoNet Advantage
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177
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178 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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180 =over
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182 =item Read Headlines
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184 If you only read the headlines from your local news (without clicking
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185 through to interesting stories, etc.), your anonymity on AnoNet is
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186 actually significantly _worse_ than on IcannNet, because you're giving
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187 away geolocation information that your IcannNet ISP already knows but
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188 that AnoNet probably doesn't.
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190 =item Read News
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192 Once you start clicking around for "interesting" stories, you're
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193 giving away information that your ISP probably wouldn't already know.
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194 However, if you read local news it's probably still wise to avoid AnoNet.
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195 (You can still use tor directly.)
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197 =item Do Research
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199 AnoNet shines here. Governments can force Google to cough up your
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200 search history, but only if Google can figure out which searches you're
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201 responsible for. If you use Scroogle (HTTPS) through one of AnoNet's
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202 HTTP proxies, the proxy doesn't know what you're looking for, Scroogle
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203 has no clue who you are, and by the time the search makes its way to
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204 Google, connecting it to you is all but hopeless.
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206 =item Share Files
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208 BitTorrent doesn't hide your IP address, so seeding files for
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209 L<TPB|http://www.thepiratebay.org/> is not necessarily safe. BitTorrent
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210 on AnoNet doesn't hide your IP address either, but the authorities can't
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211 easily connect your AnoNet IP address with your IcannNet IP address
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212 (in order to get your ISP to reveal your identity).
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214 =item Speak Out
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216 If you know something that you'd like other people to know, and you fear
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217 retribution from those who would prefer for others not to know what
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218 you know, traditional IcannNet forums can be forced to turn over your
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219 IP address, which can then identify you. On AnoNet, it's comparatively
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220 easy to cover your tracks, in such a way that even your own peers would
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221 have a hard time figuring out who said whatever it was.
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223 =item Blog
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225 If your blog is easy to connect to your offline identity (say, it
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226 has your name and address, and/or dwells primarily on local issues),
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227 then moving it to AnoNet obviously won't gain you much anonymity.
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228 On the other hand, if it's "just another random blog," AnoNet has the
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229 potential to keep it that way. For example, if you like to tell readers
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230 about your experience with various products, you always run the risk of
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231 having to defend yourself against a lawsuit if a corporate lawyer decides
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232 his client would be better served if your critical review went away.
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233 Now, since defending yourself in any court of law is never a trivial
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234 matter (since the judges in nearly all first-world countries assume
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235 that you know all the laws, regulations, relevant case histories,
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236 civil procedures, etc. - you know, the stuff you'd normally spend
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237 years in law school learning how to make sense of), you may decide
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238 that publishing your blog on IcannNet simply isn't worth the risk.
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239 On AnoNet, your blog is pretty well-protected against civil liability
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240 lawsuits, since before a lawyer can sue you, he first has to find you.
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241 (While there are legal mechanisms in place in many countries to allow a
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242 lawsuit to get started even when the defendant is unknown, it should be
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243 pretty obvious that a court will need to find out who you are before it
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244 can meaningfully involve you in a case. If you've done your homework,
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245 the cost of finding you will far outweigh the benefit, especially if the
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246 plaintiff knows he has no real case against you and was simply hoping to
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247 intimidate you.) In addition, the company hosting your IcannNet blog
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248 almost certainly allows itself to delete (any part of) your blog in
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249 its own sole discretion without even notifying you. That potentially
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250 allows a lawyer with an upset client to take a shortcut and bypass you
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251 entirely, simply "asking" your blog hosting provider to remove (that part
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252 of) your blog. To avoid having to activate its own lawyers, your blog
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253 hosting provider may very well decide to pull (that part of) your blog,
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254 especially if you're paying little or nothing to host your blog. In fact,
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255 if your blog is on its own domain, there's yet another canidate for the
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256 weakest link, in that anybody who wants your blog gone can simply appeal
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257 to your domain's registrar. (Recall the WikiLeaks case, for example.)
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258 On AnoNet, you can easily host your own blog, forcing attacks against
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259 your hosting arrangements to go through you (or at least through _all_
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260 of your peers). Your domain is even harder to attack, since wiping your
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261 domain off of a single resdb repository would only prevent one AnoNet
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262 user from seeing it (and a simple git rollback would fix the situation
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263 even for that individual user). Moreover, the deletion would quickly
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264 propagate throughout AnoNet, potentially raising alarms everywhere.
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265 (Even if only a single user notices the attack and re-adds your domain,
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266 his own re-addition will quickly propagate throughout AnoNet, restoring
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267 access to your domain for everybody.)
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269 =item Publish
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271 If you thought publishing blogs was tricky, try publishing a book.
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272 ("Alms for Jihad" comes to mind as one obvious example, where the
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273 publisher went so far as to delete the book from its own database and
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274 buried the copyright.) While physical books may not be so simple to
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275 publish on AnoNet (although you can certainly raise awareness of them
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276 by speaking out about them on AnoNet), e-books enjoy considerable
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277 anti-censorship advantages on AnoNet.
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279 =item Teach
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280
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281 You may want to teach disciplines that can get you into friction with "the
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282 authorities" in a tyrannical regime. (Judges in prominent first-world
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283 countries have ruled, for example, that knowing your way around a computer
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284 is an indication that you may be involved in computer-related crimes.)
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285 AnoNet gives you an opportunity to teach without your students being
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286 able to point you out to the authorities, even under pain of torture.
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288 =item Report
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290 You may find yourself in the middle of a news story, but other parts
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291 of that news story may not appreciate your reports. When you report
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292 something to WikiLeaks without going through tor, you're leaving a long
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293 trail that may lead to you. With AnoNet, you can hide that trail to
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294 a certain extent, if you don't want to use tor directly. (WikiLeaks
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295 over tor will still give you better protection than AnoNet, if you're
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296 worried about your government's intelligence agencies getting involved.
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297 AnoNet's optimization towards pseudonymity with common IcannNet protocols
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298 is the weakness, here. We're working on that, but in the meantime you
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299 have L<tor|http://www.torproject.org/>, L<i2p|http://www.i2p2.de/>,
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300 L<Freenet|http://freenetproject.org/>, L<GNUnet|http://gnunet.org/>,
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301 and others.)
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303 =back
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305 =head2 Why Not to Join
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307 If you're looking for a ready-made community, where you just show up and
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308 "browse," AnoNet (either 1 or 2) is probably not quite what you're after.
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309 The whole concept behind AnoNet is that it's whatever you make it.
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310 Of course, that's not to say you'll have to build everything from
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311 scratch, but if you want to be happy here, you're best off bringing
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312 your creativity along rather than leaving it behind when you join.
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313 (If you've been around darknets before, you're probably quite familiar
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314 with "design by committee." On AnoNet, you're more than welcome to
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315 invite a committee to discuss anything you want, but you don't have to
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316 organize one before doing anything. If (you think) you already know
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317 what you're doing, just "build it and they will come.")
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319 =head2 What You Can Do
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321 Since AnoNet uses the same protocols as the public Internet, anything
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322 that's possible on the public Internet is theoretically possible on
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323 AnoNet. In practice, we don't have anything that nobody bothered to
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324 provide on AnoNet.
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326 Here's a list of things you can currently do on AnoNet2 (i.e., without
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327 having to set anything up yourself):
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329 =over
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331 =item *
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333 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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337 IRC Webchat Client (L<http://www.sevilnatas.ano/chat.html>)
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338 IRC-Like Chat Rooms [NO ACTIVATION OR VALID EMAILS REQUIRED (looking to relay to IRC, L<http://www.sevilnatas.ano/chat/>)]
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341 =item *
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343 L<WikiLeaks Mirror|http://wikileaks.ucis.ano/> (The real WikiLeaks may be down, but not our mirror!)
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347 L<Some Random Wiki|http://www.somerandomwiki.ano/>
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351 Pastebin (without time-zone leaks, L<http://www.sevilnatas.ano/pastebin/>)
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355 Encode/Decode text, binary, hex, base64, and dec/char (L<http://sevilnatas.ano/translator/>)
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357 =item *
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359 Live WorldCup Stream (offline until next year)
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363 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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367 IRC (L<irc://1.3.3.7/anonet> or L<irc://irc.somerandomnick.ano/RendezVous>)
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371 Jabber (irc.somerandomnick.ano)
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375 Web (for example, L<http://www.somerandomnick.ano/>)
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379 PSYC (psyced: IRC, Jabber, social networking, "twittering," newsgroups, etc.) (irc.somerandomnick.ano)
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383 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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387 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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391 Web-based resource database viewer: L<http://ix.ucis.ano/anonet/>
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395 Decentralized Web mirroring service (at least L<http://a.mirror.somerandomnick.ano>) (technical difficulties)
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399 BitTorrent Tracker/Indexer (three separate ones, each with some cool
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400 features of its own - ask for details on IRC) (no need to worry about
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401 "Three Strikes" ISP policies)
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415 =item Newsgroups (Usenet)
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416
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417 The guy who said he was bringing usenet to anonet seems to have died,
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418 and the project apparently died with him.
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420 =item A-Commerce
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421
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422 Getting Anonymous Commerce right takes a bit of effort, since nearly
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423 all governments regulate the exchange of anything that has value, in an
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424 attempt to preserve their power structure. A-Commerce is a core goal
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425 of AnoNet, though, and we hope to achieve it someday.
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427 =item Watch TV
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428
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429 While the AnoNet backbone, at this point, is capable of sustaining
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430 real-time video streaming, there are still some technical and
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431 anonymity-preservation problems to solve before anybody here is likely
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432 to feel safe broadcasting TV.
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434 =back
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436 If you want something that's not on either list, you'll either have to
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437 set it up yourself, or con somebody else into setting it up himself. (If
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438 it's something that others are likely to find useful and/or interesting,
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439 you'll probably have an easy time recruiting guys to help you out.)
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441 =head2 What You Can Contribute
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442
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443 Well, each of us has his own wishlist, but most of us are working on
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444 moving stuff from our TODO lists to our DONE lists, so you're looking
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445 at a bit of a moving (and highly subjective) target. You're more than
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446 welcome to contribute anything you want, and if it's interesting and/or
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447 useful, it'll probably attract a following. That said, here are a number
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448 of things that would benefit the AnoNet as a whole:
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450 =over
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451
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452 =item Client Ports
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453
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454 When a new user wants to connect, he'll normally come in through a
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455 client port. The more client ports are available, the harder it is for
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456 any individual client port to abuse its position (for example, if the
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457 local government decides to try regulating it).
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458
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459 =item Public Email Services
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460
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461 Currently, every AnoNet user who wants an email address on AnoNet has to
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462 set up his own mailserver. AnoNet1 used to have a public email service so
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463 people could get email addresses without running their own mail servers,
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464 but it hasn't been online in nearly a year (although AnoNet1 continues to
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465 advertise it). SRN is working on setting up such an animal on AnoNet2,
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466 but competition here is a good thing.
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468 =item IRC Servers
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470 IRC on AnoNet2 isn't one big network under centralized control.
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471 Rather, anybody who wants runs his own IRC (or other chat) server, and
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472 links whatever channels he wants to channels on other servers, using a
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473 collection of relay bots. (Right now, UFO, pragmo and SRN field relays,
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474 and the scalability problems are becoming visible. How relay bots may
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475 want to deal with this is still a topic for open discussion. Feel free
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476 to join in the discussion, or just do your own thing and let everyone
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477 else be damned.)
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479 =item Outbound HTTP Proxies
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481 SRN runs three right now and ryuk runs one, but that means between the
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482 two of them they can snoop on all HTTP traffic from AnoNet2 to IcannNet.
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483 Having more proxies gives you an alternative to blindly trusting SRN
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484 and ryuk not to sell your click-through data to Google, invert the order
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485 of search results to your queries, and inject malicious JavaScript into
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486 your Hotmail homepage.
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488 =back
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490 =head2 See Also
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492 If AnoNet sounds good but not perfect, don't despair: there are a number
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493 of other projects that may interest you either instead of - or possibly
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494 in addition to - AnoNet.
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498 =item L<dn42|http://www.dn42.net/>
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500 dn42 is another highly decentralized darknet, and it's also quite
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501 friendly. The main differences are that it doesn't claim anonymity as
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502 a goal, and that it's significantly larger than AnoNet. A number of
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503 AnoNet members are also active in dn42.
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505 =item L<VAnet|http://www.vanet.org/>
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507 VAnet is a strange animal. It's a highly I<centralized> darknet, making
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508 the curious claim that centralization actually aids in privacy protection.
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509 It's still quite small, but it should scale extremely well from a
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510 technical perspective, due to its centralization. VAnet's official IRC
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512 more about VAnet is actually just to join AnoNet IRC and ask about VAnet.
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514 =item L<UCIS IX|http://ix.ucis.nl/>
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516 The UCIS Internet eXchange is an attempt to link a bunch of darknets
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517 together. If you connect using UFO's CP, you're already on the UCIS IX.
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519 =back