There you go. So tank-- -- is actually a reference to "tank man." It was blocked for some time in early 2012. it's actually unblocked now, so now you can search for tanks to your heart's delight on Weibo. But you're not going to see this image on Weibo, or through any sort of search engine
Because those are a lot faster, I can just set those as one. But eventually that dependency will get unblocked because we're going to work it hard every day.
Because those are a lot faster, I can just set those as one. As soon as it gets unblocked , then it pops into the implement, because it is the highest priority item.
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.
But really, the promising strategies all revolve around this idea of collateral freedom, so this idea of strength of numbers. This idea that the best way to stay unblocked is to somehow hide in other things that censors don't want to block. So you see that with things like Amazon AWS.
So we're, in that host header, sending you to our DNS round robin that is a mixture of peers and our servers. 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.
And it'll take proxies out of rotation if they don't work. So we're really focused on just building a tool that stays unblocked and provides really useful access.
So we had this sort of problem. How do we release this openly so we can help more people while at the same time keeping it unblocked ? In that instance, it actually turned out that the way they were blocking it was not through infiltration, but was rather through fingerprinting our traffic on the network.
And it'll take proxies out of rotation if they don't work. From my perspective, I think that tackling sort of really usable tools that stay unblocked while also tackling anonymity
And it'll take proxies out of rotation if they don't work. So it uses a whitelist of sites that it provides access to that we know are unblocked .
Because those are a lot faster, I can just set those as one. We're not going to take something from the left, we're going to take something from the track column as soon as it's unblocked .
And it's focused on access in the same sense that these satellite dishes are focused on access. So we don't really get into anonymity certainly in the way that Tor does, but our primary focus is staying unblocked and providing access. So in terms of the satellite dishes, this was sort of a milestone moment in Lantern's history last Decem-- or I guess November actually--
So no traffic would be able to flow to your machine from China within about an hour and a half. We fixed that within about a week, but we still had this problem of how do you distribute Lantern more broadly while keeping it unblocked ? So what paths forward are there?
They don't see that HTTP host header passing through, and they don't see that eventually this is going to reddit.com. So on the one hand, that's kind of interesting in the sense that you can imagine instead of reddit.com-- I think Reddit is actually unblocked , surprisingly, pretty much everywhere in the world.
And it'll take proxies out of rotation if they don't work. But over time, that's going to be about a much bigger issue, I think, because there's staying unblocked and being somewhat usable.
So you're actually able to say what you want. But in fact, when I searched for the word tank at that same time, "tank" was unblocked , and Hoobastank, or maybe the word stank itself, was blocked.