From a22aba86abae9db8959c6fa4da4c5e68c022c019 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 02:34:39 +0000 Subject: more a2.o updates --- .../public_pod/darknet_comparison.pod | 9 ++--- doc/www.anonet2.org/public_pod/index.pod | 39 ++++++++++++++-------- 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/www.anonet2.org/public_pod/darknet_comparison.pod b/doc/www.anonet2.org/public_pod/darknet_comparison.pod index 665f53c..d48cd2e 100644 --- a/doc/www.anonet2.org/public_pod/darknet_comparison.pod +++ b/doc/www.anonet2.org/public_pod/darknet_comparison.pod @@ -25,22 +25,22 @@ Please keep in mind that this comparison is mostly focused on relative anonymity value, rather than, say, the quality of the available social networks. If the latter is more important to you than the former, you're almost certainly wasting your time here. If you'd like to understand -more about the mechanics of anonymity, there's a whole separate page here -(L) devoted to that topic. +more about the mechanics of anonymity, L. =begin html - + - + @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ more about the mechanics of anonymity, there's a whole separate page here +
Overview
 AnoNet1AnoNet2dn42VAnet
Claimed Purposeanonymity to prevent censorshipanonymity to preserve censorshiphave fun with BGPfreedom and network efficiency
Claimed Purposeanonymity to prevent censorshipanonymity to prevent censorshiphave fun with BGPfreedom and network efficiency
Claimed Governmentnearly nonenonenearly nonebackbone only
Actual Governmentoligarchynonenearly nonebackbone only
Actual Government betrays Claimed Purposeyesnonono
Centralized Critical Infrastructurewiki (includes resource database), client port, IRCnonewiki, IRCall
Decentralized Critical Infrastructureroutingallrouting, resource databasenone
Current Size20-30~1040-50<5
Average Monthly Growth~0%~20%~5%~20%
Average Monthly Growth~0%~20%~5%~10%
Activity Levelmediummediummediumlow
Interdarknet Connectivitycensored access to AnoNet2 (must use AnoNet2 DNS), censored access to dn42 (must use AnoNet2 DNS)full routing to part of AnoNet1, full routing to part of dn42, full routing to VAnetcensored access to AnoNet (1&2, must use SRN's DNS), censored access to VAnet (must use SRN's DNS)full routing to part of AnoNet1, full routing to AnoNet2, full routing to part of dn42
DNS CoverageAnoNet1AnoNet (1&2), dn42, VAnet, IcannNetdn42, IcannNetAnoNet (1&2), dn42, VAnet, IcannNet
Documentationcentralized (crzydmnd's wiki)decentralized (part of git-based resdb)centralized (helios's wiki)centralized (vanet.org)
Chatroomcentralized (single IRCnet)decentralized (ad-hoc relaying between IRC and Jabber chatrooms)semicentralized (single IRCnet, with a Jabber chatroom relay)decentralized (shared with AnoNet2)
DNScentralized (from wiki), several official "rootservers"decentralized (from resdb), each user fields his own, public nameservers available for the lazydecentralized (from registry), multiple competing deploymentscentralized (from svn), centralized official deployment
BitTorrent Trackers/Indexersnone?1 centralized and 1 decentralized (git-based)1 centralized1 centralized
=end html diff --git a/doc/www.anonet2.org/public_pod/index.pod b/doc/www.anonet2.org/public_pod/index.pod index afb025a..24ad58e 100644 --- a/doc/www.anonet2.org/public_pod/index.pod +++ b/doc/www.anonet2.org/public_pod/index.pod @@ -21,15 +21,15 @@ us and chat, it's very easy: =item webchat -L +L (doesn't hide your identity) =item telnet chat -L +L (hides your identity) =item IRC chat -L +L (doesn't hide your identity) =back @@ -42,21 +42,24 @@ Once you're online, you can reconnect to IRC from inside AnoNet: =item IRC -L +L (doesn't automatically hide your identity) =item IRC -L -(L, if you don't have -DNS for some reason) +L +(L, if you don't have DNS for some +reason) (automatically hides your identity) =item IRC -L (L, for the same reason as before and if you want you can use SSL on port 6697) +L +(L, for the same reason as before +and if you want you can use SSL on port 6697) (doesn't automatically +hide your identity) =item telnet -L +L =item Jabber @@ -182,6 +185,12 @@ Web-based resource database viewer: L Decentralized Web mirroring service (at least L) (technical difficulties) +=item * + +BitTorrent Tracker/Indexer (three separate ones, each with some cool +features of its own - ask for details on IRC) (no need to worry about +"Three Strikes" ISP policies) + =back Here's a list of things that somebody claims to be working on: @@ -233,11 +242,13 @@ such an animal on AnoNet2, but competition here is a good thing. =item IRC Servers IRC on AnoNet2 isn't one big network under centralized control. -Rather, anybody who wants runs his own IRC (or other chat) server, and -links whatever channels he wants to channels on other servers, using -a collection of relay bots. (Right now, UFO and pragmo field relays, -and the scalability problems are becoming visible. How relay bots may -want to deal with this is still a topic for open discussion.) +Rather, anybody who wants runs his own IRC (or other chat) server, +and links whatever channels he wants to channels on other servers, +using a collection of relay bots. (Right now, UFO and pragmo field +relays, and the scalability problems are becoming visible. How relay +bots may want to deal with this is still a topic for open discussion. +Feel free to join in the discussion, or just do your own thing and let +everyone else be damned.) =item Outbound HTTP Proxies -- cgit v1.2.3