Hey Shava! Thanks for your feedback. We wanted the headline to suggest that Lantern was the next new, exciting thing in anti-censorship, and the easiest way to signal that was by mentioning Tor. For what it is--scalable blocking resistance--it could very well be better than Tor. We did not mean to set up the story of a horse race between the two, merely to quickly contextualize Lantern for readers less familiar with anti-censorship tools. Jessice is working on a follow-up story tomorrow about the relationship between uProxy, Lantern and Tor, and the information sharing that is the foundation of those tools. You can reach her directly at jessica-at-personaldemocracy-dot-com and I'm sure she'd be happy to talk with you.
Micah On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Tempest <temp...@tushmail.com> wrote: > Shava Nerad: > > > But if you look at the press or boosters or detractors, there is > > misinformation, disinfo, and just a lot of glitter and FUD out there. > > > > Not to jump on TechPresident, but to use them as an example (but because > it > > was posted here...), there's a tendency to pit groups against one > another, > > too, which is freaking sad. > > > > From their headline: ""Could State Department Funded Lantern Be Bigger, > > Better Tor?" > > the lantern team already directly laid this to bed in their faq under > "is lantern safe for me to use." > > "Lantern is not an anonymity tool. If you require that the sites you > visit do not learn your IP address or physical location (they normally > can, which may come as a surprise), or you cannot risk network monitors > being able to determine what sites you visit, we recommend you use Tor. > Tor is great software, and we communicate with the Tor team frequently. > Again, Lantern’s purpose is access. Tor’s purpose is anonymity." > > https://getlantern.org/#/faq > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > > VFEmail.net - http://www.vfemail.net > $24.95 ONETIME Lifetime accounts with Privacy Features! > 15GB disk! No bandwidth quotas! > Commercial and Bulk Mail Options! > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations > of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > compa...@stanford.edu. > -- Did you ask a good question today? Help the Good Question Project<http://www.goodquestionproject.com/> find and highlight good questions asked in public. My digital trail: http://www.personaldemocracy.com http://www.techpresident.com http://micah.sifry.com http://www.twitter.com/mlsif <http://www.twitter.com/mlsif>https://www.facebook.com/micah.sifry http://www.orbooks.com/our-books/wikileaks
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