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1 =head1 AnoNet, Take 2! |
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| 323 | 3 Welcome to AnoNet! AnoNet is a highly decentralized darknet, aiming to create a censorship resistant network free from government influence and restrictions. AnoNet uses an IP network to accomplish this, as an alternative to the existing internet. |
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| 327 | 5 You can read more information about AnoNet below, or on L<http://wiki.ucis.nl/Anonet>. |
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7 =head2 Theory |
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| 326 | 9 =over |
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| 326 | 11 =item * |
| 329 | 12 |
| 326 | 13 L<anonymity in general and its place in AnoNet in particular|http://www.anonet2.org/anonymity> |
| 329 | 14 |
| 326 | 15 =item * |
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17 L<darknet comparison page|http://www.anonet2.org/darknet_comparison> |
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21 L<AnoNet FAQ|http://www.anonet2.org/faq> |
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| 326 | 23 =item * |
| 329 | 24 |
| 326 | 25 L<quick introduction to darknets and anonymity in general and AnoNet2 in particular|http://www.anonet2.org/intro> |
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| 326 | 27 =back |
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29 =head2 How to Join |
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| 31 There are many ways to join AnoNet. If you just want to hang out with | |
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37 <tr><th>Protocol</th><th>Service</th><th>Anonymity</th></tr> |
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38 <tr><td>HTTP WebChatZ<></td><td>L<sevilIRC|http://anonet.serveirc.com/></td><td>L<aaya|http://www.anonet2.org/irc_anonymity> (Hidden IP, username and realname, custom nickname (note 1))</td></tr> |
| 329 | 39 <tr><td>HTTP WebChatZ<></td><td>L<KwaakNet|http://anortr.ucis.nl:8086/?channels=anonet&nick=Anonymous></td><td>L<aaya|http://www.anonet2.org/irc_anonymity> (Hidden IP, username and realname, custom nickname (note 1))</td></tr> |
| 40 <tr><td>HTTP WebChatZ<></td><td>L<KwaakNet|http://webchat.kwaaknet.org/?c=AnoNet></td><td>L<naya|http://www.anonet2.org/irc_anonymity> (Visible IP, hidden username and realname, custom nickname (warning!) (note 1))</td></tr> | |
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41 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<sevilNatas|irc://irc0.sevilnatas.ano:6667/anoNet></td><td>L<aaao|http://www.anonet2.org/irc_anonymity> (Hidden IP, username and realname, custom nickname, SSL enabled)</td></tr> |
| 329 | 42 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<SRN|irc://anortr.ucis.nl:8804/RendezVous></td><td>L<aaoa|http://www.anonet2.org/irc_anonymity> (Hidden IP, username and realname (note 2), and also blocks most CTCP messages)</td></tr> |
| 43 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<SRN (tor)|irc://2dmrunyyp6bp53th.onion/RendezVous></td><td>L<aaoa|http://www.anonet2.org/irc_anonymity> (Hidden IP, username and realname (note 2), and also blocks most CTCP messages)</td></tr> | |
| 44 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<SRN2|irc://anortr.ucis.nl:8806/anonet></td><td>L<aaoa|http://www.anonet2.org/irc_anonymity> (Hidden IP, username and realname (note 2))</td></tr> | |
| 45 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<SRN2 (tor)|irc://w53qxqs27amlrwnm.onion/anonet></td><td>L<aaoa|http://www.anonet2.org/irc_anonymity> (Hidden IP, username and realname (note 2))</td></tr> | |
| 46 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<UFO|irc://anortr.ucis.nl:8805/anonet></td><td>L<aooo|http://www.anonet2.org/irc_anonymity> (Hidden IP, visible username and realname)</td></tr> | |
| 47 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<UFO|irc://irc.kwaaknet.org:6667/anonet></td><td>L<nooo|http://www.anonet2.org/irc_anonymity> (Visible IP, username and realname (warning!))</td></tr> | |
| 48 <tr><td>TelnetZ<></td><td>L<SRN|telnet://anortr.ucis.nl:8803/></td><td>L<aaya|http://www.anonet2.org/irc_anonymity> (Hidden IP and username, custom nickname)</td></tr> | |
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| 327 | 53 =over |
| 329 | 54 |
| 327 | 55 =item * |
| 329 | 56 |
| 325 | 57 Note 1: your browser may send information that can be used to identify you. Although this information is not directly visible to other chat users, it may be sent in clear text over the internet and over anonet. |
| 329 | 58 |
| 327 | 59 =item * |
| 329 | 60 |
| 325 | 61 Note 2: your IRC client always sends your configured username, realname and possibly also hostname. Although this information is not directly visible to other chat users, it may be sent in clear text over the internet and over anonet. You should therefore always properly configure your IRC client! |
| 329 | 62 |
| 327 | 63 =back |
| 325 | 64 |
| 339 | 65 If you're feeling adventurous enough to connect at the IP level, there |
| 66 are a few options available: | |
| 67 | |
| 68 =over | |
| 69 | |
| 70 =item * | |
| 71 | |
| 72 L<UFO has a client port.|http://ix.ucis.nl/clientport.php> (You will | |
| 73 need openvpn for this option, but there is no need for routing software.) | |
| 74 | |
| 75 =item * | |
| 76 | |
| 77 It is possible to negotiate your first peering on IRC, completely | |
| 78 bypassing the client port. (For this option you can use quicktun, | |
| 79 openvpn, or tinc. You will also need routing software, for example bird | |
| 80 or zebra. If you are on Windows, DnRouter can do everything.) | |
| 81 | |
| 82 =back | |
| 83 | |
| 84 Once you're online, you can reconnect to IRC from inside AnoNet: | |
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| 323 | 88 Z<><table> |
| 326 | 89 <tr><th>ProtocolZ<></th><th>Service using DNSZ<></th><th>Service using IP (no DNS)</th><th>Anonymity</th></tr> |
| 416 | 90 <tr><td>UDPMSG4Z<></td><td>L<SRN (UDPMSG4 cloud)|udpmsg4://irc3.srn.ano:15783/chat/anonet></td><td>L<SRN (UDPMSG4 cloud)|udpmsg4://1.0.27.111:15783/chat/anonet></td><td>UDPMSG4 is anonymous by design. L<You can run your own IRC server.|http://www.powerfulproxy.com/do_it.php/http/www.srw.ano/udpmsg4ircd></td></tr> |
| 329 | 91 <tr><td>UDPMSG3Z<></td><td>L<SRN (UDPMSG3 cloud)|udpmsg3://irc2.srn.ano:15387/chat/anonet></td><td>L<SRN (UDPMSG3 cloud)|udpmsg3://1.0.27.110:15387/chat/anonet></td><td>UDPMSG3 is anonymous by design.</td></tr> |
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| 329 | 93 <tr><td>HTTP WebChatZ<></td><td>L<KwaakNet|http://anortr.ucis.ano:8086/?channels=anonet&nick=Anonymous></td><td>L<KwaakNet|http://1.3.3.2:8086/?channels=anonet&nick=Anonymous></td><td>L<aaya|http://www.anonet2.org/irc_anonymity> (Hidden IP, username and realname, custom nickname (note 1))</td></tr> |
| 416 | 94 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<SRN (NewNickNet)|irc://irc3.srn.ano:6667/anonet></td><td>L<SRN (NickNet)|irc://1.0.27.111:6667/anonet></td><td>L<aaoa|http://www.anonet2.org/irc_anonymity> (Hidden IP, username and realname (note 2))</td></tr> |
| 329 | 95 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<SRN (NickNet)|irc://irc2.srn.ano:6667/anonet></td><td>L<SRN (NickNet)|irc://1.0.27.110:6667/anonet></td><td>L<aaoa|http://www.anonet2.org/irc_anonymity> (Hidden IP, username and realname (note 2))</td></tr> |
| 96 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<SRN|irc://irc.somerandomnick.ano:6667/RendezVous></td><td>L<SRN|irc://1.0.27.103:6667/RendezVous></td><td>L<aaoa|http://www.anonet2.org/irc_anonymity> (Hidden IP, username and realname (note 2), and also blocks most CTCP messages)</td></tr> | |
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| 329 | 99 <tr><td>IRCZ<></td><td>L<pragmo|irc://irc.pragmo.ano:6667/atomic></td><td>L<pragmo|irc://1.0.16.111:6667/atomic></td><td>L<????|http://www.anonet2.org/irc_anonymity> (Unknown)</td></tr> |
| 100 <tr><td>TelnetZ<></td><td>L<SRN|telnet://irc.somerandomnick.ano:2323/></td><td></td><td>L<aaya|http://www.anonet2.org/irc_anonymity> (Hidden IP and username, custom nickname)</td></tr> | |
| 101 <tr><td>JabberZ<></td><td>irc.somerandomnick.ano (RendezVous MUC)</td><td></td><td>L<aaya|http://www.anonet2.org/irc_anonymity> (Hidden IP, username and realname, custom nickname)</td></tr> | |
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| 327 | 106 =over |
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| 327 | 108 =item * |
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| 325 | 110 Note 1: your browser may send information that can be used to identify you. Although this information is not directly visible to other chat users, it may be sent in clear text over the internet and over anonet. |
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| 327 | 112 =item * |
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| 325 | 114 Note 2: your IRC client always sends your configured username, realname and possibly also hostname. Although this information is not directly visible to other chat users, it may be sent in clear text over the internet and over anonet. You should therefore always properly configure your IRC client! |
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| 327 | 116 =back |
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| 329 | 118 For more information about anonimity on IRC, see L<this page|http://www.anonet2.org/irc_anonymity>. |
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| 404 | 120 =head2 IRC Channels |
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| 122 The activity level on #anonet got a bit too high (especially with all the bots), so some new channels have been added. Here are the currently known channels: | |
| 123 | |
| 124 =over | |
| 125 | |
| 126 =item #anonet (chat/anonet) | |
| 127 | |
| 128 This is the main channel for AnoNet-related discussion. All AnoNet2 IRC servers carry this channel. | |
| 129 | |
| 130 =item #talk (chat/talk) | |
| 131 | |
| 132 This is a new channel for general talk, and at least for now it is the home of most of our bots. Only sevil and SRN IRC servers carry this channel. | |
| 133 | |
| 134 =item #1984 (chat/1984) | |
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| 420 | 136 This is a channel that BrainBox requested. Most SRN IRC servers carry it. |
| 404 | 137 |
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| 139 | |
| 140 Creating a new channel is done the traditional way (just /join it), | |
| 141 but linking the channel through the udpmsg3 cloud requires a little | |
| 416 | 142 bit of configuration for all current udpmsg3 clients. SRN is happy |
| 143 to reconfigure his stuff for any new channel. L<SRN's new UDPMSG4 IRC | |
| 144 server|http://www.powerfulproxy.com/do_it.php/http/www.srw.ano/udpmsg4ircd> | |
| 145 doesn't require any special configuration. Just join a new channel on | |
| 146 irc3.srn.ano, and it will immediately exist on the udpmsg4 cloud. | |
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| 404 | 150 Note that if your only aim in joining AnoNet is to search Google |
| 151 anonymously, you can save yourself the hassle L<by just heading over | |
| 152 to Scroogle|http://www.scroogle.org/>. If you're looking to browse | |
| 153 the rest of the public Internet anonymously, though, we now have | |
| 154 outbound proxies, which you're more than welcome to use. (L<Here's a | |
| 155 service that tries to show you what you're likely to be leaking, right | |
| 156 now.|http://what-is-my-ip-address.anonymous-proxy-servers.net/>) | |
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| 203 | 184 You may be looking for help with your Mathematics, Physics or Computer |
| 185 Science homework. Due to AnoNet's nature, many of the guys who hang | |
| 186 out here have an academic background in one (or more) of the above, | |
| 187 and most are quite happy to help students. | |
| 188 | |
| 189 If you're interested in starting your own darknet, you can get plenty of | |
| 190 advice here. In addition, the AnoNet2 infrastructure is easy to reuse | |
| 191 for any other darknet, by design. (Technical ease of forking is a core | |
| 192 goal of AnoNet2. We avoid forks only by being good enough so nobody | |
| 193 feels the need to fork AnoNet2.) | |
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| 164 | 211 Here's an interesting exchange: |
| 165 | 212 |
| 166 | 213 =over |
| 165 | 214 |
| 166 | 215 =item Relay> [Ivo @ KN] governments do not intend to harm everybody |
| 216 | |
| 217 =item Relay> [Ivo @ KN] some criminals just intend harm everybody | |
| 165 | 218 |
| 166 | 219 =item somerandomnick> and some governments do, too |
| 165 | 220 |
| 166 | 221 =item Relay> [Ivo @ KN] they usually at least pretend to be good for some people |
| 165 | 222 |
| 166 | 223 =item somerandomnick> People are people. |
| 165 | 224 |
| 166 | 225 =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 |
| 165 | 226 |
| 166 | 227 =item somerandomnick> It doesn't really matter that much what hat a guy is wearing. |
| 165 | 228 |
| 166 | 229 =item somerandomnick> A government is just a pretty face for a person to hide behind. |
| 165 | 230 |
| 166 | 231 =item somerandomnick> It doesn't actually mean anything beyond "I'm stronger than you, so I make decisions for you." |
| 232 | |
| 233 =item somerandomnick> A person's government should be his own brain. You should never outsource your free choice. | |
| 165 | 234 |
| 166 | 235 =item Relay> [anonno @ KN] you know what, you could use this as a marketing tool for anonet ;) |
| 165 | 236 |
| 166 | 237 =back |
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| 203 | 255 Once you start clicking around for "interesting" stories, you're |
| 256 giving away information that your ISP probably wouldn't already know. | |
| 257 However, if you read local news it's probably still wise to avoid AnoNet. | |
| 258 (You can still use tor directly.) | |
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| 320 | 260 =item Just Browse |
| 261 | |
| 262 If you just surf aimlessly for hours, you are giving away a lot of | |
| 263 profiling information to your ISP. With the AnoNet proxies, you can | |
| 264 avoid giving your ISP any of this information. (You are still giving the | |
| 265 same information to the AnoNet proxies if you don't use SSL tunneling, | |
| 266 but AnoNet proxies can't connect the profiling information with your | |
| 267 real-life identity, while your ISP (and anybody who can get your ISP | |
| 322 | 268 records) certainly can.) Surfing with AnoNet also means that you don't |
| 269 need to worry about your government filtering policies getting in your | |
| 270 way while you surf. | |
| 320 | 271 |
| 321 | 272 =item Browse WikiLeaks |
| 273 | |
| 274 If you're located in a totalitarian regime, your ISP may not allow you | |
| 275 to access WikiLeaks. Even if you are located in a less totalitarian | |
| 276 regime, your government may monitor your WikiLeaks browsing habits. | |
| 277 AnoNet allows you to browse WikiLeaks without your ISP preventing or | |
| 278 monitoring your visits. | |
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| 203 | 282 AnoNet shines here. Governments can force Google to cough up your |
| 283 search history, but only if Google can figure out which searches you're | |
| 284 responsible for. If you use Scroogle (HTTPS) through one of AnoNet's | |
| 285 HTTP proxies, the proxy doesn't know what you're looking for, Scroogle | |
| 286 has no clue who you are, and by the time the search makes its way to | |
| 287 Google, connecting it to you is all but hopeless. | |
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| 322 | 289 =item Discuss the WikiLeaks insurance.aes256 File |
| 290 | |
| 291 If you and your friends were hoping to talk together | |
| 292 about your experience trying to decrypt the file on | |
| 293 abovetopsecret's forums, you probably saw L<this complaint from a | |
| 294 moderator|http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread598787/pg23#pid9331623>. | |
| 295 After quoting from L<the terms and conditions | |
| 296 page|http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread6688/pg1>, he says: | |
| 297 B<Going forward, please remember that we cannot discuss how to "break" | |
| 298 this file open. We're only allowed to discuss the topic at hand, which | |
| 299 is the posting of the encrypted document itself, and what it I<may> | |
| 300 contain.> AnoNet doesn't have a terms and conditions page, so you're | |
| 301 "allowed" to discuss whatever you want. | |
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| 203 | 305 BitTorrent doesn't hide your IP address, so seeding files for |
| 306 L<TPB|http://www.thepiratebay.org/> is not necessarily safe. BitTorrent | |
| 307 on AnoNet doesn't hide your IP address either, but the authorities can't | |
| 308 easily connect your AnoNet IP address with your IcannNet IP address | |
| 309 (in order to get your ISP to reveal your identity). | |
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| 364 ("Alms for Jihad" comes to mind as one obvious example, where the | |
| 365 publisher went so far as to delete the book from its own database and | |
| 366 buried the copyright.) While physical books may not be so simple to | |
| 367 publish on AnoNet (although you can certainly raise awareness of them | |
| 368 by speaking out about them on AnoNet), e-books enjoy considerable | |
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| 203 | 373 You may want to teach disciplines that can get you into friction with "the |
| 374 authorities" in a tyrannical regime. (Judges in prominent first-world | |
| 375 countries have ruled, for example, that knowing your way around a computer | |
| 376 is an indication that you may be involved in computer-related crimes.) | |
| 377 AnoNet gives you an opportunity to teach without your students being | |
| 378 able to point you out to the authorities, even under pain of torture. | |
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| 203 | 382 You may find yourself in the middle of a news story, but other parts |
| 383 of that news story may not appreciate your reports. When you report | |
| 384 something to WikiLeaks without going through tor, you're leaving a long | |
| 385 trail that may lead to you. With AnoNet, you can hide that trail to | |
| 386 a certain extent, if you don't want to use tor directly. (WikiLeaks | |
| 387 over tor will still give you better protection than AnoNet, if you're | |
| 388 worried about your government's intelligence agencies getting involved. | |
| 389 AnoNet's optimization towards pseudonymity with common IcannNet protocols | |
| 390 is the weakness, here. We're working on that, but in the meantime you | |
| 391 have L<tor|http://www.torproject.org/>, L<i2p|http://www.i2p2.de/>, | |
| 392 L<Freenet|http://freenetproject.org/>, L<GNUnet|http://gnunet.org/>, | |
| 393 and others.) | |
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| 420 | 395 Even if your reports are perfectly legal in your country, |
| 396 you still may become the victim of identity theft, L<like | |
| 397 some journalists reporting on the HP board leak a few years | |
| 398 ago|http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2006/09/71749> (and | |
| 399 with governments "reaching out" to corporations more now, it gets worse | |
| 400 before it gets better). It's harder to find the identity of an anonymous | |
| 401 journalist, so naturally it is harder to steal it. It's also harder to | |
| 402 find your anonymous sources. | |
| 403 | |
| 417 | 404 =item Sell Stuff Online |
| 405 | |
| 406 Well, even if you don't care about your anonymity and in fact _want_ everyone to know who you are, doing business on IcannNet isn't so safe, L<because you never know when a misguided government will sieze your domain for no real reason, without even admitting its mistake|http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-shuts-down-84000-websites-by-mistake-110216/>. AnoNet domains are a safer investment, because it is far more difficult for someone to sieze an AnoNet domain. In addition, L<PowerfulProxy|http://www.powerfulproxy.com/> now makes it possible to reach many AnoNet domains directly from IcannNet. | |
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| 185 | 415 Of course, that's not to say you'll have to build everything from |
| 416 scratch, but if you want to be happy here, you're best off bringing | |
| 417 your creativity along rather than leaving it behind when you join. | |
| 418 (If you've been around darknets before, you're probably quite familiar | |
| 419 with "design by committee." On AnoNet, you're more than welcome to | |
| 420 invite a committee to discuss anything you want, but you don't have to | |
| 203 | 421 organize one before doing anything. If (you think) you already know |
| 422 what you're doing, just "build it and they will come.") | |
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| 203 | 432 =item A-Commerce |
| 433 | |
| 434 Getting Anonymous Commerce right takes a bit of effort, since nearly | |
| 435 all governments regulate the exchange of anything that has value, in an | |
| 436 attempt to preserve their power structure. A-Commerce is a core goal | |
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| 440 | |
| 441 While the AnoNet backbone, at this point, is capable of sustaining | |
| 442 real-time video streaming, there are still some technical and | |
| 443 anonymity-preservation problems to solve before anybody here is likely | |
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| 55 | 452 |
| 453 =head2 What You Can Contribute | |
| 454 | |
| 455 Well, each of us has his own wishlist, but most of us are working on | |
| 456 moving stuff from our TODO lists to our DONE lists, so you're looking | |
| 203 | 457 at a bit of a moving (and highly subjective) target. You're more than |
| 458 welcome to contribute anything you want, and if it's interesting and/or | |
| 459 useful, it'll probably attract a following. That said, here are a number | |
| 460 of things that would benefit the AnoNet as a whole: | |
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| 463 | |
| 464 =item Client Ports | |
| 465 | |
| 466 When a new user wants to connect, he'll normally come in through a | |
| 467 client port. The more client ports are available, the harder it is for | |
| 468 any individual client port to abuse its position (for example, if the | |
| 469 local government decides to try regulating it). | |
| 470 | |
| 471 =item Public Email Services | |
| 472 | |
| 299 | 473 Nomius runs a public mail service, and lex is working on another one. |
| 474 While more than 2 public mail services clearly aren't necessary at this | |
| 475 stage, too many is better than too few. | |
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| 497 support binary data without escaping, and to reduce code size and CPU | |
| 498 cycles to read and write the protocol), and SRN and sevilNatas now | |
| 499 have IRC servers connecting to the udpmsg4 cloud (running L<SRN's new | |
| 500 IRCd|http://www.powerfulproxy.com/do_it.php/http/www.srw.ano/udpmsg4ircd>). | |
| 501 SRN also runs a udpmsg3 bridge. | |
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| 286 | 512 =item IcannNet mailinglist Proxies |
| 513 | |
| 514 AnoNet uses a lot of software in new and interesting ways, so AnoNet | |
| 515 users find "accidental features" quite often. If there were an easy | |
| 516 way to join the official mailing lists for some of this software, AnoNet | |
| 517 users would probably submit many more bug reports, resulting in better | |
| 518 quality software being available for us. | |
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