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author Nick <nick@somerandomnick.ano>
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1 =head1 AnoNet, Take 2!
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3 So, you came across anoNet and thought it sounded great, so you decided
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4 to join in order to check it out.
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6 ...and found the (only) client port doesn't work half the time,
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8 ...and most of the advertised services no longer exist,
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10 ...and most of the people have left,
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12 ...and those who are left can hardly be classified as friendly,
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14 ...and so you left, and perhaps found another darknet instead.
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16 Well, you're not the only one who's been turned off, and a few of us
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17 have decided to fix AnoNet. Some of us are relatively new, while others
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18 joined AnoNet years ago, and left out of disgust. A number of features
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19 set version 2 apart from the original:
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21 =over
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23 =item No false advertising
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25 If you see something advertised here, it exists. You won't see stuff
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26 that hasn't been up in years here.
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28 =item No centralized network control
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30 You don't have to worry about Kaos waking up one morning and blocking
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31 your access to the whole network by deciding to filter private ASNs.
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32 You also don't have to worry about a couple of powerful guys getting
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33 together and "blacklisting" you from the network for some unspecified
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34 reason with an inquisition against your peers.
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36 =item No centralized IRC control
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38 No centralized IRC control: You don't have to worry about risc
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39 g-lining you from the "official" IRC network for no apparent reason,
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40 and refusing to even admit to having g-lined you. Since the whole
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41 purpose behind AnoNet was to create a censorship-resistant alternative
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42 to the government-censored "public" Internet, arbitrary censorship on
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43 the "official" AnoNet IRC network by anonymous government members is
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44 particularly troubling.
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46 =item No resource mess
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48 We have one mechanism for resource management, a decentralized (not just
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49 distributed, but truly decentralized) resource database. You don't have
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50 to deal with half a zillion incompatible (and in the case of the wiki,
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51 down) services, run by guys who may not even be on the AnoNet tomorrow.
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53 =item No arbitrary rules
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55 If you read the advertising for AnoNet, you probably think it's whatever
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56 you make of it. Sadly, there's a tiny handful of people who have control
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57 over most of the network, and make new (unwritten) rules whenever the
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58 mood strikes them. The sum of those rules is that AnoNet is whatever
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59 I<they> make of it. In version 2, we've undertaken to fix that, by both
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60 technical and administrative means.
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62 =back
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64 =head2 How to Join
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66 Joining is pretty simple: If you know how to connect to a
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67 client port, UFO's CP (L<http://ix.ucis.nl/clientport.php> or
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68 L<http://www.qontrol.nl/anonet-cp.tgz>) will already land you in the
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69 right place. (Once you're online, you can join "the club" at 1.3.3.7:6667
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70 #anonet, or irc.somerandomnick.ano:6667 (1.0.27.103, if you don't have
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71 DNS for some reason) #RendezVous. If you don't have an IRC client handy
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72 (or if you're too lazy to set it up to avoid leaking your real info), you
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73 can just telnet over to irc.somerandomnick.ano port 2323 (or ufo-net.nl
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74 port 2323, from the outside). Alternatively, you can point your Jabber
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75 client over to irc.somerandomnick.ano, or you can even use Jabber s2s
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76 to talk with everybody else by just joining the MUC room RendezVouz
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77 at irc.somerandomnick.ano.) If OpenVPN is all Greek to you, UFO's IRC
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78 server is also reachable from the public Internet (irc.kwaaknet.org port
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79 6667 channel #anonet). If IRC is all Greek to you, you may want to talk
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80 to your favorite search engine about that, or just use KwaakNet's Webchat
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81 (L<http://webchat.kwaaknet.org/?c=AnoNet>). (Note that if your only aim
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82 in joining AnoNet is to search Google anonymously, you can save yourself
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83 the hassle by just heading over to Scroogle (L<http://www.scroogle.org/>).
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84 If you're looking to browse the rest of the public Internet anonymously,
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85 though, we now have an outbound proxy, which you're more than welcome
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86 to use.)
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88 =head2 Why to Join
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90 (Note: There's now a separate page (L<http://www.anonet2.org/links>)
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91 with links to many more reasons to join AnoNet.)
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93 You'd want to join AnoNet2 for the same reasons as you'd want to join
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94 AnoNet1: to exercise your freedom of speech and action, without having
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95 to worry too much about people who don't like you making too many
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96 connections between your online and offline identities. Unlike AnoNet1,
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97 we're not nazis about our rules, so if you don't feel the need to conceal
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98 your real-life identity, we won't get all mad at you. Just please be
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99 considerate of those who would like to stay anonymous ("pseudonomous,"
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100 technically), and everybody is happy.
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102 A secondary reason for joining is to gain an opportunity to experiment
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103 with internet technologies without breaking "the real thing." While
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104 that's not the purpose behind AnoNet, it seems to be a common reason
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105 for joining, and as long as you don't break too much with your fun,
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106 you're more than welcome to have your fun here.
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108 You may want to join for the social scene (we even have our own social
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109 network, although nobody uses it for what should be obvious reasons),
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110 or you may want to create your own social scene. Again, you're not
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111 looking at an "official" reason for joining, but nobody owns AnoNet, so
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112 "official" is an artificial term 'round here.
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114 Finally, you may be getting a bit nervous at the amount of regulation
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115 piling up around the world against the public Internet. Since the "public"
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116 Internet is owned and managed by a number of multinational corporations,
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117 it's fairly easy for governments to regulate it. Part of the main
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118 purpose behind AnoNet has always been to get away from those private
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119 control points, in order to create a truly public internet. In AnoNet1,
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120 anybody who can regulate crzydmnd can regulate AnoNet's "official"
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121 wiki (and by extension, its resource "database"), and anybody who can
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122 regulate Kaos can regulate AnoNet's "official" client port (and by
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123 extension, all new AnoNet users), so the private control point problem
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124 hasn't quite been solved there. AnoNet2 is still largely controlled by
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125 UFO and somerandomnick, but we have both technical and administrative
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126 measures in place to ensure that as the network grows, the two of us
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127 will no longer have enough control to destroy the network, even if our
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128 own governments ever decide to try regulating us.
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130 =head2 Why Not to Join
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132 If you're looking for a ready-made community, where you just show up and
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133 "browse," AnoNet (either 1 or 2) is probably not what you're after.
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134 The whole concept behind AnoNet is that it's whatever you make it.
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135 That's not to say you'll have to build everything from scratch (and
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136 in fact, it's a bit too late for that, unless you want to I<re>build
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137 stuff that others have already built, and if you can do better than the
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138 original, people will probably switch to your version), but if you want
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139 to be happy here, you're best off bringing your creativity along rather
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140 than leaving it behind when you join.
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141
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142 =head2 What You Can Do
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143
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144 Since AnoNet uses the same protocols as the public Internet, anything
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145 that's possible on the public Internet is theoretically possible on
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146 AnoNet. In practice, we don't have anything that nobody bothered to
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147 provide on AnoNet.
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148
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149 Here's a list of things you can currently do on AnoNet2 (i.e., without
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150 having to set anything up yourself):
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152 =over
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154 =item *
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156 DNS (1.0.27.38)
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158 =item *
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160 IRC (L<irc://1.3.3.7/anonet> or L<irc://irc.somerandomnick.ano/RendezVous>)
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162 =item *
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164 Jabber (irc.somerandomnick.ano)
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166 =item *
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168 Web
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172 PSYC (psyced: IRC, Jabber, social networking, "twittering," newsgroups, etc.) (irc.somerandomnick.ano)
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174 =item *
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176 git (including a decentralized "wiki" replacement) (L<git://git1.somerandomnick.ano/>, L<http://anogit.ucis.ano/.git/>, and possibly other feeds)
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95d4ccc9d531 We now have an outbound HTTP proxy to the IcannNet.
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178 =item *
95d4ccc9d531 We now have an outbound HTTP proxy to the IcannNet.
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95d4ccc9d531 We now have an outbound HTTP proxy to the IcannNet.
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180 outbound HTTP proxy to the public Internet (http://a.privoxy.somerandomnick.ano:8118/)
95d4ccc9d531 We now have an outbound HTTP proxy to the IcannNet.
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182 =item *
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184 Web-based resource database viewer:
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186 =over
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188 =item ASNs
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189
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190 L<http://core.ucis.ano/~ivo/anonet/as.php>
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192 =item Domains
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194 L<http://core.ucis.ano/~ivo/anonet/dom.php>
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196 =item IP Blocks
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198 L<http://core.ucis.ano/~ivo/anonet/ip.php>
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200 =back
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204 Here's a list of things that somebody claims to be working on:
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206 =over
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208 =item *
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210 email
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212 =item *
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214 news (NNTP)
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216 =back
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218 If you want something that's not on either list, you'll either have to
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219 set it up yourself, or con somebody else into setting it up himself. (If
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220 it's something that others are likely to find useful and/or interesting,
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221 you'll probably have an easy time recruiting guys to help you out.)