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author Nick <nick@somerandomnick.ano>
date Wed, 12 May 2010 21:29:59 +0000
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1 =head1 AnoNet, Take 2!
2
3 So, you came across anoNet and thought it sounded great, so you decided
4 to join in order to check it out.
5
6 ...and found the (only) client port doesn't work half the time,
7
8 ...and most of the advertised services no longer exist,
9
10 ...and most of the people have left,
11
12 ...and those who are left can hardly be classified as friendly,
13
14 ...and so you left, and perhaps found another darknet instead.
15
16 Well, you're not the only one who's been turned off, and a few of us
17 have decided to fix AnoNet. Some of us are relatively new, while others
18 joined AnoNet years ago, and left out of disgust. A number of features
19 set version 2 apart from the original:
20
21 =over
22
23 =item No false advertising
24
25 If you see something advertised here, it exists. You won't see stuff
26 that hasn't been up in years here.
27
28 =item No centralized network control
29
30 You don't have to worry about Kaos waking up one morning and blocking
31 your access to the whole network by deciding to filter private ASNs.
32 You also don't have to worry about a couple of powerful guys getting
33 together and "blacklisting" you from the network for some unspecified
34 reason with an inquisition against your peers.
35
36 =item No centralized IRC control
37
38 No centralized IRC control: You don't have to worry about risc g-lining
39 you from the "official" IRC network for no apparent reason, and refusing
40 to even admit to having g-lined you.
41
42 =item No resource mess
43
44 We have one mechanism for resource management, a decentralized (not just
45 distributed, but truly decentralized) resource database. You don't have
46 to deal with half a zillion incompatible (and in the case of the wiki,
47 down) services, run by guys who may not even be on the AnoNet tomorrow.
48
49 =item No arbitrary rules
50
51 If you read the advertising for AnoNet, you probably think it's whatever
52 you make of it. Sadly, there's a tiny handful of people who have control
53 over most of the network, and make new (unwritten) rules whenever the
54 mood strikes them. The sum of those rules is that AnoNet is whatever
55 I<they> make of it. In version 2, we've undertaken to fix that, by both
56 technical and administrative means.
57
58 =back
59
60 =head2 How to Join
61
62 Joining is pretty simple: If you know how to connect to a
63 client port, UFO's CP (L<http://ix.ucis.nl/clientport.php> or
64 L<http://www.qontrol.nl/anonet-cp.tgz>) will already land you in
65 the right place. (Once you're online, you can join "the club" at
66 1.3.3.7:6667 #anonet, or irc.somerandomnick.ano:6667 #RendezVous. If
67 you don't have an IRC client handy (or if you're too lazy to set
68 it up to avoid leaking your real info), you can just telnet over to
69 irc.somerandomnick.ano port 2323. Alternatively, you can point your
70 Jabber client over to irc.somerandomnick.ano, or you can even use Jabber
71 s2s to talk with everybody else by just joining the MUC room RendezVouz
72 at irc.somerandomnick.ano.) If OpenVPN is all Greek to you, UFO's IRC
73 server is also reachable from the public Internet (irc.kwaaknet.org port
74 6667 channel #anonet). If IRC is all Greek to you, you may want to talk
75 to your favorite search engine about that, or just use KwaakNet's Webchat
76 (L<http://webchat.kwaaknet.org/?c=AnoNet>). (Note that if your only aim in
77 joining AnoNet is to search Google anonymously, you can save yourself the
78 hassle by just heading over to Scroogle (L<http://www.scroogle.org/>).)
79
80 =head2 Why to Join
81
82 (Note: There's now a separate page (L<http://www.anonet2.org/links.html>)
83 with links to many more reasons to join AnoNet.)
84
85 You'd want to join AnoNet2 for the same reasons as you'd want to join
86 AnoNet1: to exercise your freedom of speech and action, without having
87 to worry too much about people who don't like you making too many
88 connections between your online and offline identities. Unlike AnoNet1,
89 we're not nazis about our rules, so if you don't feel the need to conceal
90 your real-life identity, we won't get all mad at you. Just please be
91 considerate of those who would like to stay anonymous ("pseudonomous,"
92 technically), and everybody is happy.
93
94 A secondary reason for joining is to gain an opportunity to experiment
95 with internet technologies without breaking "the real thing." While
96 that's not the purpose behind AnoNet, it seems to be a common reason
97 for joining, and as long as you don't break too much with your fun,
98 you're more than welcome to have your fun here.
99
100 You may want to join for the social scene (we even have our own social
101 network, although nobody uses it for what should be obvious reasons),
102 or you may want to create your own social scene. Again, you're not
103 looking at an "official" reason for joining, but nobody owns AnoNet, so
104 "official" is an artificial term 'round here.
105
106 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 "public"
108 Internet is owned and managed by a number of multinational corporations,
109 it's fairly easy for governments to regulate it. Part of the main
110 purpose behind AnoNet has always been to get away from those private
111 control points, in order to create a truly public internet. In AnoNet1,
112 anybody who can regulate crzydmnd can regulate AnoNet's "official"
113 wiki (and by extension, its resource "database"), and anybody who can
114 regulate Kaos can regulate AnoNet's "official" client port (and by
115 extension, all new AnoNet users), so the private control point problem
116 hasn't quite been solved there. AnoNet2 is still largely controlled by
117 UFO and somerandomnick, but we have both technical and administrative
118 measures in place to ensure that as the network grows, the two of us
119 will no longer have enough control to destroy the network, even if our
120 own governments ever decide to try regulating us.
121
122 =head2 Why Not to Join
123
124 If you're looking for a ready-made community, where you just show up and
125 "browse," AnoNet (either 1 or 2) is probably not what you're after.
126 The whole concept behind AnoNet is that it's whatever you make it.
127 That's not to say you'll have to build everything from scratch (and
128 in fact, it's a bit too late for that, unless you want to I<re>build
129 stuff that others have already built, and if you can do better than the
130 original, people will probably switch to your version), but if you want
131 to be happy here, you're best off bringing your creativity along rather
132 than leaving it behind when you join.
133
134 =head2 What You Can Do
135
136 Since AnoNet uses the same protocols as the public Internet, anything
137 that's possible on the public Internet is theoretically possible on
138 AnoNet. In practice, we don't have anything that nobody bothered to
139 provide on AnoNet.
140
141 Here's a list of things you can currently do on AnoNet2 (i.e., without
142 having to set anything up yourself):
143
144 =over
145
146 =item *
147
148 DNS (1.0.27.38)
149
150 =item *
151
152 IRC (L<irc://1.3.3.7/anonet> or L<irc://irc.somerandomnick.ano/RendezVous>)
153
154 =item *
155
156 Jabber (irc.somerandomnick.ano)
157
158 =item *
159
160 Web
161
162 =item *
163
164 PSYC (psyced: IRC, Jabber, social networking, "twittering," newsgroups, etc.) (irc.somerandomnick.ano)
165
166 =item *
167
168 git (including a decentralized "wiki" replacement) (L<git://git1.somerandomnick.ano/> and possibly other feeds)
169
170 =back
171
172 Here's a list of things that somebody claims to be working on:
173
174 =over
175
176 =item *
177
178 email
179
180 =item *
181
182 news (NNTP)
183
184 =item *
185
186 outbound HTTP proxy to the public Internet
187
188 =back
189
190 If you want something that's not on either list, you'll either have to
191 set it up yourself, or con somebody else into setting it up himself. (If
192 it's something that others are likely to find useful and/or interesting,
193 you'll probably have an easy time recruiting guys to help you out.)