Lantern: One Device, Free Data From Space Forever

[rysiek@hackerspace.pl (rysiek)]

Dnia piÄ?tek, 14 listopada 2014 12:26:34 Ted Smith pisze:
> It's "censorship-free" in the sense that a nation-state can't
> effectively block their citizens from using Lantern.
> 
> So, it's a censorship-free centralized distribution system, as opposed
> to a censorship-proof decentralized publishing system like Freenet.

Call it "for-the-time-being-supposedly-censorship-free", and I might agree.

> And it's centralized, so as soon as the central authority (the
> satellites) are compromised, the whole system is owned.

Exactly.

> IMO this is a neat first step -- it's not the whole way, but it's
> getting there. Now we just need Freenet or similar on decentralized
> microsats.

This would be interesting, along with some mesh networks, the FFDN (and 
similar initiatives), and some free spectrum maybe.

-- 
Pozdr
rysiek
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