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| 3 <head> | |
| 4 <title>AnoNet - The anonymous IP darknet</title> | |
| 5 </head><body> | |
| 6 <div> | |
| 7 <h1>AnoNet, Take 2!</h1> | |
| 8 <p>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.</p> | |
| 9 | |
| 10 <p>You can read more information about AnoNet below, or on <a href="http://wiki.ucis.nl/Anonet">http://wiki.ucis.nl/Anonet</a>.</p> | |
| 11 </div> | |
| 12 | |
| 13 <div> | |
| 14 <h2>Theory</h2> | |
| 15 <ul> | |
| 16 <li><a href="http://www.anonet2.org/anonymity">anonymity in general and its place in AnoNet in particular</a></li> | |
| 17 <li><a href="http://www.anonet2.org/darknet_comparison">darknet comparison page</a></li> | |
| 18 <li><a href="http://www.anonet2.org/faq">AnoNet FAQ</a></li> | |
| 19 <li><a href="http://www.anonet2.org/intro">quick introduction to darknets and anonymity in general and AnoNet2 in particular</a></li> | |
| 20 </ul> | |
| 21 </div> | |
| 22 | |
| 23 <h2>How to Join</h2> | |
| 24 <p>There are many ways to join AnoNet. If you just want to hang out with us and chat, it's very easy:</p> | |
| 25 <table> | |
| 26 <tr><th>Protocol</th><th>Service</th><th>Anonymity</th></tr> | |
| 27 <tr><td>HTTP WebChat</td><td><a href="http://anonet.serveirc.com/">KwaakNet</a></td><td>Hidden IP, username and realname, custom nickname (note 1)</td></tr> | |
| 28 <tr><td>HTTP WebChat</td><td><a href="http://anortr.ucis.nl:8086/?channels=anonet&nick=Anonymous">KwaakNet</a>></td><td>Hidden IP, username and realname, custom nickname (note 1)</td></tr> | |
| 29 <tr><td>HTTP WebChat</td><td><a href="http://webchat.kwaaknet.org/?c=AnoNet">KwaakNet</a></td><td>Visible IP, hidden username and realname, custom nickname (warning!) (note 1)</td></tr> | |
| 30 <tr><td>IRCZ</td><td><a href="irc://anortr.ucis.nl:8804/RendezVous">SRN</a></td><td>Hidden IP, username and realname (note 2)</td></tr> | |
| 31 <tr><td>IRC</td><td><a href="irc://2dmrunyyp6bp53th.onion/RendezVous">SRN (tor)</a></td><td>Hidden IP, username and realname (note 2)</td></tr> | |
| 32 <tr><td>IRC</td><td><a href="irc://anortr.ucis.nl:8806/anonet">SRN</a></td><td>Hidden IP, username and realname (note 2)</td></tr> | |
| 33 <tr><td>IRC</td><td><a href="irc://w53qxqs27amlrwnm.onion/anonet">SRN (tor)</a></td><td>Hidden IP, username and realname (note 2)</td></tr> | |
| 34 <tr><td>IRC</td><td><a href="irc://anortr.ucis.nl:8805/anonet">KwaakNet</a></td><td>Hidden IP, visible username and realname</td></tr> | |
| 35 <tr><td>IRC</td><td><a href="irc://irc.kwaaknet.org:6667/anonet">KwaakNet</a></td><td>Visible IP, username and realname (warning!)</td></tr> | |
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38 <tr><td>IRC</td><td><a href="irc://uvqqv4xu22vfkhg2.onion:6667/">NTMA</a></td><td>Hidden IP and username, custom nickname</td></tr> |
| 328 | 39 <tr><td>Telnet</td><td><a href="telnet://anortr.ucis.nl:8803/">SRN</a></td><td>Hidden IP and username, custom nickname</td></tr> |
| 40 </table> | |
| 41 | |
| 42 <ul> | |
| 43 <li>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.</li> | |
| 44 <li>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!</li> | |
| 45 </ul> | |
| 46 | |
| 47 If you're feeling adventurous enough to connect at the IP level, <a href="http://ix.ucis.nl/clientport.php">UFO has a client port</a>. Once you're online, you can reconnect to IRC from inside AnoNet: | |
| 48 | |
| 49 <table> | |
| 50 <tr><th>Protocol</th><th>Service using DNS</th><th>Service using IP (no DNS)</th><th>Anonymity</th></tr> | |
| 51 <tr><td>HTTP WebChat</td><td><a href="http://www.sevilnatas.ano/chat.html">sevilNatas (KwaakNet)</a></td><td></td><td>Hidden IP, username and realname, custom nickname (note 1)</td></tr> | |
| 52 <tr><td>HTTP WebChat</td><td><a href="http://anortr.ucis.ano:8086/?channels=anonet&nick=Anonymous">KwaakNet</a></td><td><a href="http://1.3.3.2:8086/?channels=anonet&nick=Anonymous">KwaakNet</a></td><td>Hidden IP, username and realname, custom nickname (note 1)</td></tr> | |
| 53 <tr><td>IRC</td><td><a href="irc://irc2.srn.ano:6667/anonet">SRN (NickNet)</a></td><td><a href="irc://1.0.27.110:6667/anonet">SRN (NickNet)</a></td><td>Hidden IP, username and realname (note 2)</td></tr> | |
| 54 <tr><td>IRC</td><td><a href="irc://irc.somerandomnick.ano:6667/RendezVous">SRN</a></td><td><a href="irc://1.0.27.103:6667/RendezVous">SRN</a></td><td>Hidden IP, username and realname (note 2)</td></tr> | |
| 55 <tr><td>IRC</td><td><a href="irc://irc.sevilnatas.ano:6667/anonet">sevilNatas</a></td><td></td><td>Unknown</td></tr> | |
| 56 <tr><td>IRC</td><td><a href="irc://irc.ucis.ano:6667/anonet">KwaakNet</a></td><td><a href="irc://1.3.3.7:6667/anonet">KwaakNet</a></td><td>Visible IP, username and realname</td></tr> | |
| 57 <tr><td>IRC</td><td><a href="irc://irc.pragmo.ano:6667/atomic">pragmo</a></td><td><a href="irc://1.0.16.111:6667/atomic">pragmo</a></td><td>Unknown</td></tr> | |
| 651 | 58 <tr><td>IRC</td><td><a href="irc://irc.d3v11.ano:6667/">d3v11</a></td><td><a href="irc://1.1.5.67:6667/">d3v11</a></td><td>Hidden IP and username, custom nickname</td></tr> |
| 59 <tr><td>IRC</td><td><a href="irc://irc.whatis-theplan.ano:6667/">whatis-theplan</a></td><td><a href="irc://1.1.5.69:6667/">whatis-theplan</a></td><td>Hidden IP and username, custom nickname</td></tr> | |
| 328 | 60 <tr><td>Telnet</td><td><a href="telnet://irc.somerandomnick.ano:2323/">SRN</a></td><td></td><td>Hidden IP and username, custom nickname</td></tr> |
| 61 <tr><td>Jabber</td><td>irc.somerandomnick.ano (RendezVous MUC)</td><td></td><td>Unknown</td></tr> | |
| 62 </table> | |
| 63 | |
| 64 <ul> | |
| 65 <li>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.</li> | |
| 66 <li>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!</li> | |
| 67 </ul> | |
| 68 | |
| 69 <h2>Why to Join</h2> | |
| 70 <p>Note: There's now <a href="links">a separate page with links to many more reasons tojoin AnoNet</a></p> | |
| 71 | |
| 72 <p>You'd want to join AnoNet2 for the same reasons as you'd want to join | |
| 73 AnoNet1: to exercise your freedom of speech and action, without having | |
| 74 to worry too much about people who don't like you making too many | |
| 75 connections between your online and offline identities. Unlike AnoNet1, | |
| 76 we're not nazis about our rules, so if you don't feel the need to conceal | |
| 77 your real-life identity, we won't get all mad at you. Just please be | |
| 78 considerate of those who would like to stay anonymous ("pseudonomous," | |
| 79 technically), and everybody is happy. (For more discussion on this | |
| 80 topic in particular, you may want to check out <a href="anonimity">separate page | |
| 81 here</a>.</p> | |
| 82 | |
| 83 <p>A secondary reason for joining is to gain an opportunity to experiment | |
| 84 with internet technologies without breaking "the real thing." While | |
| 85 that's not the purpose behind AnoNet, it seems to be a common reason | |
| 86 for joining, and as long as you don't break too much with your fun, | |
| 87 you're more than welcome to have your fun here.</p> | |
| 88 | |
| 89 <p>You may want to join for the social scene (we even have our own social | |
| 90 network, although nobody uses it for what should be obvious reasons), | |
| 91 or you may want to create your own social scene. Again, you're not | |
| 92 looking at an "official" reason for joining, but nobody owns AnoNet, so | |
| 93 "official" is an artificial term 'round here.</p> | |
| 94 | |
| 95 <p>You may be looking for help with your Mathematics, Physics or Computer | |
| 96 Science homework. Due to AnoNet's nature, many of the guys who hang | |
| 97 out here have an academic background in one (or more) of the above, | |
| 98 and most are quite happy to help students.</p> | |
| 99 | |
| 100 <p>If you're interested in starting your own darknet, you can get plenty of | |
| 101 advice here. In addition, the AnoNet2 infrastructure is easy to reuse | |
| 102 for any other darknet, by design. (Technical ease of forking is a core | |
| 103 goal of AnoNet2. We avoid forks only by being good enough so nobody | |
| 104 feels the need to fork AnoNet2.)</p> | |
| 105 | |
| 106 <p>Finally, you may be getting a bit nervous at the amount of regulation | |
| 107 piling up around the world against the public Internet. Since the | |
| 108 "public" Internet is owned and managed by a number of multinational | |
| 109 corporations, it's fairly easy for governments to regulate it. Part of | |
| 110 the main purpose behind AnoNet has always been to get away from those | |
| 111 private control points, in order to create a truly public internet. | |
| 112 In AnoNet1, anybody who can regulate crzydmnd can regulate AnoNet1's | |
| 113 "official" wiki (and by extension, its resource "database"), and | |
| 114 anybody who can regulate Kaos can regulate AnoNet1's "official" client | |
| 115 port (and by extension, all new AnoNet1 users), so the private control | |
| 116 point problem hasn't quite been solved there. AnoNet2 is still largely | |
| 117 controlled by UFO and somerandomnick, but we have both technical and | |
| 118 administrative measures in place to ensure that as the network grows, | |
| 119 the two of us will no longer have enough control to destroy the network, | |
| 120 even if our own governments ever decide to try regulating us.</p> | |
| 121 | |
| 122 <h2>The AnoNet Advantage</h2> | |
| 123 | |
| 124 <p>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:</p> | |
| 125 | |
| 126 <h2>Read Headlines</h3> | |
| 127 <p>If you only read the headlines from your local news (without clicking | |
| 128 through to interesting stories, etc.), your anonymity on AnoNet is | |
| 129 actually significantly _worse_ than on IcannNet, because you're giving | |
| 130 away geolocation information that your IcannNet ISP already knows but | |
| 131 that AnoNet probably doesn't.</p> | |
| 132 | |
| 133 <h3>Read News</h3> | |
| 134 <p>Once you start clicking around for "interesting" stories, you're | |
| 135 giving away information that your ISP probably wouldn't already know. | |
| 136 However, if you read local news it's probably still wise to avoid AnoNet. | |
| 137 (You can still use tor directly.)</p> | |
| 138 | |
| 139 <h3>Just Browse</h3> | |
| 140 <p>If you just surf aimlessly for hours, you are giving away a lot of | |
| 141 profiling information to your ISP. With the AnoNet proxies, you can | |
| 142 avoid giving your ISP any of this information. (You are still giving the | |
| 143 same information to the AnoNet proxies if you don't use SSL tunneling, | |
| 144 but AnoNet proxies can't connect the profiling information with your | |
| 145 real-life identity, while your ISP (and anybody who can get your ISP | |
| 146 records) certainly can.) Surfing with AnoNet also means that you don't | |
| 147 need to worry about your government filtering policies getting in your | |
| 148 way while you surf.</p> | |
| 149 | |
| 150 <h3>Browse WikiLeaks</h3> | |
| 151 <p>If you're located in a totalitarian regime, your ISP may not allow you | |
| 152 to access WikiLeaks. Even if you are located in a less totalitarian | |
| 153 regime, your government may monitor your WikiLeaks browsing habits. | |
| 154 AnoNet allows you to browse WikiLeaks without your ISP preventing or | |
| 155 monitoring your visits.</p> | |
| 156 | |
| 157 <h3>Do Research</h3> | |
| 158 <p>AnoNet shines here. Governments can force Google to cough up your | |
| 159 search history, but only if Google can figure out which searches you're | |
| 160 responsible for. If you use Scroogle (HTTPS) through one of AnoNet's | |
| 161 HTTP proxies, the proxy doesn't know what you're looking for, Scroogle | |
| 162 has no clue who you are, and by the time the search makes its way to | |
| 163 Google, connecting it to you is all but hopeless.</p> | |
| 164 | |
| 165 <h3>Share Files</h3> | |
| 166 <p>BitTorrent doesn't hide your IP address, so seeding files for | |
| 167 http://www.thepiratebay.org/ is not necessarily safe. BitTorrent | |
| 168 on AnoNet doesn't hide your IP address either, but the authorities can't | |
| 169 easily connect your AnoNet IP address with your IcannNet IP address | |
| 170 (in order to get your ISP to reveal your identity).</p> | |
| 171 | |
| 172 <h3>Speak Out</h3> | |
| 173 <p>If you know something that you'd like other people to know, and you fear retribution from those who would prefer for others not to know what you know, traditional IcannNet forums can be forced to turn over your IP address, which can then identify you. If your email address is with Gmail, <a href="http://mirror.wikileaks.info/wiki/Gmail_may_hand_over_IP_addresses_of_journalists/">you have other problems</a>. On AnoNet, it's comparatively easy to cover your tracks, in such a way that even your own peers would have a hard time figuring out who said whatever it was.</p> | |
| 174 | |
| 175 <h3>Blog</h3> | |
| 176 <p>If your blog is easy to connect to your offline identity (say, it | |
| 177 has your name and address, and/or dwells primarily on local issues), | |
| 178 then moving it to AnoNet obviously won't gain you much anonymity. | |
| 179 On the other hand, if it's "just another random blog," AnoNet has the | |
| 180 potential to keep it that way. For example, if you like to tell readers | |
| 181 about your experience with various products, you always run the risk of | |
| 182 having to defend yourself against a lawsuit if a corporate lawyer decides | |
| 183 his client would be better served if your critical review went away. | |
| 184 Now, since defending yourself in any court of law is never a trivial | |
| 185 matter (since the judges in nearly all first-world countries assume | |
| 186 that you know all the laws, regulations, relevant case histories, | |
| 187 civil procedures, etc. - you know, the stuff you'd normally spend | |
| 188 years in law school learning how to make sense of), you may decide | |
| 189 that publishing your blog on IcannNet simply isn't worth the risk. | |
| 190 On AnoNet, your blog is pretty well-protected against civil liability | |
| 191 lawsuits, since before a lawyer can sue you, he first has to find you. | |
| 192 (While there are legal mechanisms in place in many countries to allow a | |
| 193 lawsuit to get started even when the defendant is unknown, it should be | |
| 194 pretty obvious that a court will need to find out who you are before it | |
| 195 can meaningfully involve you in a case. If you've done your homework, | |
| 196 the cost of finding you will far outweigh the benefit, especially if the | |
| 197 plaintiff knows he has no real case against you and was simply hoping to | |
| 198 intimidate you.) In addition, the company hosting your IcannNet blog | |
| 199 almost certainly allows itself to delete (any part of) your blog in | |
| 200 its own sole discretion without even notifying you. That potentially | |
| 201 allows a lawyer with an upset client to take a shortcut and bypass you | |
| 202 entirely, simply "asking" your blog hosting provider to remove (that part | |
| 203 of) your blog. To avoid having to activate its own lawyers, your blog | |
| 204 hosting provider may very well decide to pull (that part of) your blog, | |
| 205 especially if you're paying little or nothing to host your blog. In fact, | |
| 206 if your blog is on its own domain, there's yet another canidate for the | |
| 207 weakest link, in that anybody who wants your blog gone can simply appeal | |
| 208 to your domain's registrar. (Recall the WikiLeaks case, for example.) | |
| 209 On AnoNet, you can easily host your own blog, forcing attacks against | |
| 210 your hosting arrangements to go through you (or at least through _all_ | |
| 211 of your peers). Your domain is even harder to attack, since wiping your | |
| 212 domain off of a single resdb repository would only prevent one AnoNet | |
| 213 user from seeing it (and a simple git rollback would fix the situation | |
| 214 even for that individual user). Moreover, the deletion would quickly | |
| 215 propagate throughout AnoNet, potentially raising alarms everywhere. | |
| 216 (Even if only a single user notices the attack and re-adds your domain, | |
| 217 his own re-addition will quickly propagate throughout AnoNet, restoring | |
| 218 access to your domain for everybody.)</p> | |
| 219 | |
| 220 <h3>Publish</h3> | |
| 221 <p>If you thought publishing blogs was tricky, try publishing a book. | |
| 222 ("Alms for Jihad" comes to mind as one obvious example, where the | |
| 223 publisher went so far as to delete the book from its own database and | |
| 224 buried the copyright.) While physical books may not be so simple to | |
| 225 publish on AnoNet (although you can certainly raise awareness of them | |
| 226 by speaking out about them on AnoNet), e-books enjoy considerable | |
| 227 anti-censorship advantages on AnoNet.</p> | |
| 228 | |
| 229 <h3>Teach</h3> | |
| 230 <p>You may want to teach disciplines that can get you into friction with "the | |
| 231 authorities" in a tyrannical regime. (Judges in prominent first-world | |
| 232 countries have ruled, for example, that knowing your way around a computer | |
| 233 is an indication that you may be involved in computer-related crimes.) | |
| 234 AnoNet gives you an opportunity to teach without your students being | |
| 235 able to point you out to the authorities, even under pain of torture.</p> | |
| 236 | |
| 237 <h3>Report</h3> | |
| 238 <p>You may find yourself in the middle of a news story, but other parts | |
| 239 of that news story may not appreciate your reports. When you report | |
| 240 something to WikiLeaks without going through tor, you're leaving a long | |
| 241 trail that may lead to you. With AnoNet, you can hide that trail to | |
| 242 a certain extent, if you don't want to use tor directly. (WikiLeaks | |
| 243 over tor will still give you better protection than AnoNet, if you're | |
| 244 worried about your government's intelligence agencies getting involved. | |
| 245 AnoNet's optimization towards pseudonymity with common IcannNet protocols | |
| 246 is the weakness, here. We're working on that, but in the meantime you | |
| 247 have <a href="http://www.torproject.org/">tor</a>, <a href="http://www.i2p2.de/">i2p</a>, | |
| 248 <a href="http://freenetproject.org/">Freenet</a>, <a href="http://gnunet.org/">GNUnet</a>, | |
| 249 and others.)</p> | |
| 250 | |
| 251 <h2>Why Not to Join</h2> | |
| 252 <p>If you're looking for a ready-made community, where you just show up and | |
| 253 "browse," AnoNet (either 1 or 2) is probably not quite what you're after. | |
| 254 The whole concept behind AnoNet is that it's whatever you make it. | |
| 255 Of course, that's not to say you'll have to build everything from | |
| 256 scratch, but if you want to be happy here, you're best off bringing | |
| 257 your creativity along rather than leaving it behind when you join. | |
| 258 (If you've been around darknets before, you're probably quite familiar | |
| 259 with "design by committee." On AnoNet, you're more than welcome to | |
| 260 invite a committee to discuss anything you want, but you don't have to | |
| 261 organize one before doing anything. If (you think) you already know | |
| 262 what you're doing, just "build it and they will come.")</p> | |
| 263 | |
| 264 <h2>What You Can Do</h2> | |
| 265 <p>See the <a href="services">Services</a> page</p> | |
| 266 | |
| 267 <h2>What You Can Contribute</h2> | |
| 268 <p>Well, each of us has his own wishlist, but most of us are working on | |
| 269 moving stuff from our TODO lists to our DONE lists, so you're looking | |
| 270 at a bit of a moving (and highly subjective) target. You're more than | |
| 271 welcome to contribute anything you want, and if it's interesting and/or | |
| 272 useful, it'll probably attract a following. That said, here are a number | |
| 273 of things that would benefit the AnoNet as a whole:</p> | |
| 274 | |
| 275 <h3>Client Ports</h3> | |
| 276 <p>When a new user wants to connect, he'll normally come in through a | |
| 277 client port. The more client ports are available, the harder it is for | |
| 278 any individual client port to abuse its position (for example, if the | |
| 279 local government decides to try regulating it).</p> | |
| 280 | |
| 281 <h3>Public Email Services</h3> | |
| 282 <p>Nomius runs a public mail service, and lex is working on another one. | |
| 283 While more than 2 public mail services clearly aren't necessary at this | |
| 284 stage, too many is better than too few.</p> | |
| 285 | |
| 286 <h3>IRC Servers</h3> | |
| 287 <p>IRC on AnoNet2 isn't one big network under centralized control. | |
| 288 Rather, anybody who wants runs his own IRC (or other chat) server, and | |
| 289 links whatever channels he wants to channels on other servers, using a | |
| 290 collection of relay bots. (Right now, UFO, pragmo and SRN field relays, | |
| 291 and the scalability problems are becoming visible. How relay bots may | |
| 292 want to deal with this is still a topic for open discussion. Feel free | |
| 293 to join in the discussion, or just do your own thing and let everyone | |
| 294 else be damned.)</p> | |
| 295 | |
| 296 <p>Update: UFO implemented udpmsg3 (inspired by r101's udpmsg protocol), | |
| 297 and UFO, SRN, sevilNatas and lex all have IRC servers connecting to the | |
| 298 udpmsg3 "cloud" now. The primary advantages of udpmsg3 are that it's | |
| 299 truly decentralized, very difficult to censor, fails over gracefully in | |
| 300 case of hardware/software failures without dropping messages and without | |
| 301 duplicating messages, and avoids the long relay chains that normally | |
| 302 take up half your screen.</p> | |
| 303 | |
| 304 <h3>Outbound HTTP Proxies</h3> | |
| 305 <p>SRN runs three right now and ryuk runs one, but that means between the | |
| 306 two of them they can snoop on all HTTP traffic from AnoNet2 to IcannNet. | |
| 307 Having more proxies gives you an alternative to blindly trusting SRN | |
| 308 and ryuk not to sell your click-through data to Google, invert the order | |
| 309 of search results to your queries, and inject malicious JavaScript into | |
| 310 your Hotmail homepage.</p> | |
| 311 | |
| 312 <h3>IcannNet mailinglist Proxies</h3> | |
| 313 <p>AnoNet uses a lot of software in new and interesting ways, so AnoNet | |
| 314 users find "accidental features" quite often. If there were an easy | |
| 315 way to join the official mailing lists for some of this software, AnoNet | |
| 316 users would probably submit many more bug reports, resulting in better | |
| 317 quality software being available for us.</p> | |
| 318 | |
| 319 <h2>See Also</h2> | |
| 320 <p>If AnoNet sounds good but not perfect, don't despair: there are a number | |
| 321 of other projects that may interest you either instead of - or possibly | |
| 322 in addition to - AnoNet.</p> | |
| 323 | |
| 324 <h3><a href="http://www.dn42.net/">dn42</a></h3> | |
| 325 <p>dn42 is another highly decentralized darknet, and it's also quite | |
| 326 friendly. The main differences are that it doesn't claim anonymity as | |
| 327 a goal, and that it's significantly larger than AnoNet. A number of | |
| 328 AnoNet members are also active in dn42.</p> | |
| 329 | |
| 330 <h3><a href="http://www.vanet.org/">VAnet</a></h3> | |
| 331 <p>VAnet is a strange animal. It's a highly <i>centralized</i> darknet, making | |
| 332 the curious claim that centralization actually aids in privacy protection. | |
| 333 It's still quite small, but it should scale extremely well from a | |
| 334 technical perspective, due to its centralization. VAnet's official IRC | |
| 335 is part of the AnoNet IRC monster for now, so the easiest way to find out | |
| 336 more about VAnet is actually just to join AnoNet IRC and ask about VAnet.</p> | |
| 337 | |
| 338 <h3><a href="http://ix.ucis.nl/">UCIS IX</a></h3> | |
| 339 <p>The UCIS Internet eXchange is an attempt to link a bunch of darknets | |
| 340 together. If you connect using UFO's CP, you're already on the UCIS IX.</p> | |
| 341 | |
| 342 </body></html> |