According to a contemporary account, the Carnes brought in so much, so many goods, thousands upon thousands of fireworks, lanterns, rhubarb, little vials of perfume, so much of this stuff that the market collapse smothered under their huge volume of their own goods that were being brought in, and there wasn't enough
So as Jason said, I'm going to talk to you guys about Lantern. Lantern's a tool for bypassing censors in countries that censor the internet. And it's funded through a series of grants primarily from the State Department.
So in Lantern's case, we send that traffic not just to our servers. Lantern is a hybrid system where we run some servers to make sure that people's quality of service is good. But we send it also to peers.
And it'll take proxies out of rotation if they don't work. Lantern has tremendous potential for good.
Imagine, in simple analogy, if I was walking in a dark cave holding a lantern, and imagine the cave as the mind, the lantern being awareness, now if I walk to one corner of the cave, the lantern would only light up that corner of the cave and reveal what's in that corner of the cave to me.
But if you look at the skyline of Tehran, you see satellite dishes everywhere. So Lantern, in a lot of ways, is similar to that in the sense that it's very visible. These satellite dishes are very visible on these rooftops.
These satellite dishes are very visible on these rooftops. And Lantern, or really any tool this type, like Tor or anything else, is very visible on the network. If you're looking at all the network packets passing through the entire country, you can see that these connections are unique, or these users are using the network in a unique way.
If you're looking at all the network packets passing through the entire country, you can see that these connections are unique, or these users are using the network in a unique way. So Lantern is certainly visible on the network in that same sense. And it's focused on access in the same sense that these satellite dishes are focused on access.
So you see that with things like Amazon AWS. Like Lantern and a couple of other tools for a long time were distributing all of their installers on S3. Because basically, if you were accessing S3 over HTTPS, the only way to block that link is to block all of S3.
And in some cases, obviously, a lot of these connections are not from censored regions. And Lantern does that for a couple of reasons. So like, for example, when it first runs, we don't know where you are.
And it'll take proxies out of rotation if they don't work. Because Lantern doesn't provide anonymity in those ways.
There is this story about the ancient Greeks from around the second century AD. They had this golden lantern that would burn for a whole year without going out, all because of a very special wick that just wouldn't burn down.
We had a little house with no electricity or running water. We had kerosene lanterns. We'd wash up in the creek, as I'm doing here during the summer.
She was apparently given a Chevrolet wagon as her kind of fish listening station. Are they the lantern-- Not the lantern, but it's the most prolific.
'Where is that boy Michael?' No one said anything. Godfrey waved the lantern around pathetically. Moses was the boss unfortunate enough to stand closest to the Randall brothers.
And it's funded through a series of grants primarily from the State Department. So total funding for Lantern has been about $5 million over the course of the last 3 years. And I'm really excited to be here at Google, first of all just because the engineering talent on this campus is so amazing.
So this is just a shot of someone-- not a real person-- at home running Lantern. And the way Lantern works is users in uncensored regions can download and install it on their computers. And because you at home have access to the open internet, people can proxy through you and themselves get access.
And basically, in order to facilitate this broadcast, they asked us, hey, can you open up downloads to Lantern from the website as a part of this broadcast so that we can announce this thing and have people actually able to download it? Because prior to that, based on that Kaleidoscope algorithm we were talking about, Lantern was invite-only.
And then we can send that traffic wherever we want. So in Lantern's case, we send that traffic not just to our servers. Lantern is a hybrid system where we run some servers to make sure that people's quality of service is good.
of this model with peers really taking the load off of those servers was just a super-exciting time. And I guess with Lantern down the road, as we kind of move forward, we're really just pushing it out much further. And really are still honing this domain fronting technique.
But then there's this aspect of servers that don't work. So what Lantern does is it'll detect. Does this server allow TCP connections?
And it'll take proxies out of rotation if they don't work. And currently on Lantern, that would be a pretty effective attack.
Yeah. They absolutely loved it. Not even "The Magic Lantern." They liked the really strange dark stuff. My middle school was about two blocks from the Parkside Theatre, which is no longer there, but it was on in San Francisco.
are opponents of anybody would have in their Garden for instance hydrangeas contain a little bit of cyanide not a lot of cyanide but you know a little bit of Cyanide and Daphne Lantana all examples of very common garden plants that have very poisonous little berries so some of them are very easy to get and some of them are a lot harder to get for
Black and Indigenous populations in the United States from socializing with one another, from congregating in large numbers, from walking at night without lanterns or without passes. They were prohibited by law from raising their own food, from learning to read and write, especially English, from being able to earn their own money.
And they would paint images onto glass slides. This was called the magic lantern. And they would go into a theater and set this up.
She was apparently given a Chevrolet wagon as her kind of fish listening station. I think I moved the lantern shark over and kind of puzzled the sharks in there.
Yo tengo 48 años y todos los días aprendo cosas. Y Entonces y echaba pa'lante porque creo que soy disfrutona y es lo que me ha enseñado mi madre.
The way the producers described it to the writers, as if we were dropping the bomb on Hiroshima. They learned the wrong lesson from Green Lantern, which Green Lantern sucked.
And that's really what we're doing at Brave New Software. So when I think about Lantern, to me it really starts when I was really young. So this is a picture of me when I was three or four.
They might learn about new proxies, but they won't learn about existing proxies. So that's one way that Lantern stays unblocked. The sort of key component of that is again, this goes back to this peer-to-peer element.
So Manoto is the largest TV station in Iran, or largest satellite TV station in Iran, and because of that, the largest station, period. And this is just the Lantern piece on Manoto. And basically, in order to facilitate this broadcast, they asked us, hey, can you open up
So that enabled us to re-release these open downloads while staying unblocked, that little trick. And one of the goals behind Lantern that I didn't really mention, and one of the goals with this peer-to-peer component, is scalability. So we're really interested in the peer-to-peer aspect in terms of blocking resistance, but also in terms of scalability.
So you see as soon as we enabled peers, just the CPU just dropped to almost nothing. So with all of these peers running Lantern in the uncensored world acting as these access points, all of a sudden we can build a system that is financially scalable in terms of solving this problem.
with people around the world, and are actually tangibly really solving this problem of censorship, and are actually giving people access in real time. I just tend to run Lantern in with what we call Give mode on my machine overnight. And this one night I just-- there were some little glitch where I went into Dev mode in Chrome.
So we don't know if the geolocation servers themselves are blocked. So we'll tunnel that traffic through Lantern as well. But to me, this was a really sort of gratifying moment.
And it'll take proxies out of rotation if they don't work. What kind of anonymity does Lantern provide?
And it'll take proxies out of rotation if they don't work. So things like running Tor or running Lantern, I think a lot of times just the visibility on the network, like the fact that you're running these tools,
the sardines smell menhaden anchovies put it all together they don't number our way as much as these lantern fish these little fish the bottom is what lives in the deep ocean they migrate their mesopelagic they live between two hundred and a thousand meters a thousand meters is very deep and these fish
markets team here. Today is Monday, February 26. And we are just two days removed from the 2024 Lantern Festival which marks the 15th and final day of the traditional Lunar New Year celebrations. I was actually in San Francisco on Saturday watching the annual Chinese New Year Parade, and in carrying forward the celebratory spirit
This is Egon Schiele's self-portrait with Chinese red lanterns.
She was apparently given a Chevrolet wagon as her kind of fish listening station. Or you get something like the Velvet belly lantern shark which just match entirely the whole-- they cover their entire bellies with blue light that
She was apparently given a Chevrolet wagon as her kind of fish listening station. Hence, the ninja lantern shark.
I'm going to go on a magic lantern tour-- which is essentially the 1900s version of PowerPoint.
And you can look under that little paper-like lantern and you'll see the green tomatillo.
So they're really good at jack o' lanterns.
So this is a shot of me. I sort of consider this the first version of Lantern in some way. So basically, my parents were constantly inventing things.
So one aspect of-- I want to dive into some of the more detailed engineering things that we do. So blocking resistance is really a core part of Lantern and differentiates it. Some of the ways we do blocking resistance differentiates it from certainly Tor and from other tools out there.
because that's not associated with an individual, at least in the normal conception of it. So the way we do peer-to-peer in Lantern is using WebRTC. And we're releasing a new library called Natty that basically wraps up the WebRTC implementation in Chrome and just releases it as a separate library that anyone
And this is David Fifield who's a researcher over at Berkeley who has been doing some great work in this area. So what I just described is both implemented in Lantern and is a pluggable transport in Tor. So this is a diagram from David, who's a volunteer on the Tor project.