Lantern lights the way to web freedom for Great Firewall prisoners A Washington-backed peer-to-peer site designed to push holes through China’s Great Firewall has managed to accrue nearly 10,000 followers in the past fortnight. Lantern was not built specifically for China, but such is the appetite for unfettered internet access in the People’s Republic that around three-quarters of its users …
"His new project has been given US$2.2 million (£1.3m) in seed funding by the US State Department, according to the paper."
US taxpayers must be pleased: They pay for the biggest, most pervasive spying programme in history, AND they now pay for somebody trying to shield other people from their own government's surveillance.
Do the Feds want to establish a new amendment, that "The people uphold their right to be spied upon by the government of the United States, but uphold the rights on non-Americans to freedom from similar surveillance".
"Err and you think this is not being used as a means to spy on them by the US?"
Don't be daft, of course we're all aware that the NSA would be slurping this lot as well - it's the only reason for doing it. But I think your comment shows that you fall into the category noted earlier of those who think irony pertains to things made of Fe.
Oh, hi kettle, this is pot. Black!
Tho' from reading the article, will it protect from spying? if the Chinese government can, I'm sure the US & UK will join in. We really need a (Star Trek nerd reference coming up), fractal encryption key to be released into the wild - who's gonna break Gods own invention?
Lantern is not a software, because there's no such thing in English. The voiceover is American... maybe they should have had someone Chinese write the script, because I expect they teach English to a higher standard in China.
p. s. Reg: They said “bring light to corruption and injustice”.
I'm sure if my internet access was restricted getting onto facebook is going to be the last site I'd visit (actually it is even with unrestricted access). Besides, surely the powers that be could easily see who has been updating their facebook profile to identify people getting around the firewall?
some countries have firewalls blocking certain content and it is deemed acceptable to help those people access it.
Wonder if the same would be said about the firewall ever encroaching on the UK's internet connection.
Starts with blocks to Pirate Bay and pedo sites (the latter of which I am not complaining about).
Next is extremist sites:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/29/ukgovs_interwebs_mission_creep_now_it_plans_to_get_isps_to_block_extremist_sites_too/
One day we may need something like this ourselves.
But don't the two go hand in hand since one of the big concerns with blowing a whistle is being found out by who you're blowing the whistle on? And once they can say you dissed them, rubber hoses follow. Thus the only safe way to blow a whistle is to do it in such a way that no one can prove who said it.
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