How to pronounce “lantern” in English

Lantern is a hybrid system where we run some servers to make sure that people's quality of service is good.

Lantern has tremendous potential for good.

lanterns, rhubarb, little vials of perfume, so much of this stuff that the market collapse smothered

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

So Lantern, in a lot of ways, is similar to that in the sense that it's very visible.

And Lantern, or really any tool this type, like Tor or anything else, is very visible on the network.

So Lantern is certainly visible on the network in that same sense.

Like Lantern and a couple of other tools for a long time were distributing all of their installers on S3.

And Lantern does that for a couple of reasons.

Because Lantern doesn't provide anonymity in those ways.

They had this golden lantern that would burn for a whole year without going out, all because of a very special wick

Are they the lantern-- Not the lantern, but it's the most prolific.

Godfrey waved the lantern around pathetically.

So total funding for Lantern has been about $5 million over the course of the last 3 years.

And the way Lantern works is users in uncensored regions can download and install it on their computers.

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?

So in Lantern's case, we send that traffic not just to our servers.

And I guess with Lantern down the road, as we kind of move forward, we're really just pushing it out much further.

So what Lantern does is it'll detect.

And currently on Lantern, that would be a pretty effective attack.

Not even "The Magic Lantern."

We had kerosene lanterns.

This was called the magic lantern.

I think I moved the lantern shark over and kind of puzzled the sharks in there.

They learned the wrong lesson from Green Lantern, which Green Lantern sucked.

So when I think about Lantern, to me it really starts when I was really young.

So that's one way that Lantern stays unblocked.

And this is just the Lantern piece on Manoto.

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 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

I just tend to run Lantern in with what we call Give mode on my machine overnight.

So we'll tunnel that traffic through Lantern as well.

What kind of anonymity does Lantern provide?

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,

our way as much as these lantern fish these little fish the bottom is what lives in the deep ocean they migrate

from walking at night without lanterns or without passes.

And we are just two days removed from the 2024 Lantern Festival which marks the 15th and final day of the traditional Lunar

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

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.

I sort of consider this the first version of Lantern in some way.

So blocking resistance is really a core part of Lantern and differentiates it.

So the way we do peer-to-peer in Lantern is using WebRTC.

So what I just described is both implemented in Lantern and is a pluggable transport in Tor.

If 500 million people in China all got on Lantern tomorrow, or all started using censorship circumvention tools tomorrow, we'd have a big problem.

So this is just a shot of me running Lantern at home.

And we're definitely trying to grow the Lantern team and push it out much more broadly around the world.

Because if you think about if you're running Lantern in China and you're visiting some website, if that website is not in Iran-- or sorry, did I say China?