Lantern: One Device, Free Data From Space Forever
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lantern-one-device-free-data-from-space-f... Global access to the Internet’s best content on your mobile device. Anonymous. Uncensored. Free. Chicago, Illinois, United States Technology A Library In Every Pocket “The Short Wave Radio for the Digital Age.” -- Fast Company “A Tiny Satellite Dish That Brings Info to the World’s Deadzones.” -- Wired “Outernet aims to provide data to the net unconnected.” -- BBC "Billions of people around the world don't have access to the Internet, so the next big thing is trying to connect the world." -- CNN Lantern is an anonymous portable library that constantly receives free data from space. Like the water we drink or the air we breathe, the information we consume feeds the very essence of what it means to be human. Lantern establishes a new baseline of human knowledge. We are not fixing the world for people, we are giving them the information they need to fix it themselves. Lantern continuously receives radio waves broadcast by Outernet from space. Lantern turns the signal into digital files, like webpages, news articles, ebooks, videos, and music. Lantern can receive and store any type of digital file on its internal drive. To view the content stored in Lantern, turn on the Wi-Fi hotspot and connect to Lantern with any Wi-Fi enabled device. All you need is a browser. Oh, and Outernet is free to use, always. [...]
Dnia czwartek, 13 listopada 2014 09:52:35 Eugen Leitl pisze:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lantern-one-device-free-data-from-space-f orever
Global access to the Internet’s best content on your mobile device. Anonymous. Uncensored. Free. Chicago, Illinois, United States Technology
A Library In Every Pocket
“The Short Wave Radio for the Digital Age.” -- Fast Company
“A Tiny Satellite Dish That Brings Info to the World’s Deadzones.” -- Wired
“Outernet aims to provide data to the net unconnected.” -- BBC
"Billions of people around the world don't have access to the Internet, so the next big thing is trying to connect the world." -- CNN
Lantern is an anonymous portable library that constantly receives free data from space.
Like the water we drink or the air we breathe, the information we consume feeds the very essence of what it means to be human. Lantern establishes a new baseline of human knowledge. We are not fixing the world for people, we are giving them the information they need to fix it themselves.
Lantern continuously receives radio waves broadcast by Outernet from space. Lantern turns the signal into digital files, like webpages, news articles, ebooks, videos, and music. Lantern can receive and store any type of digital file on its internal drive. To view the content stored in Lantern, turn on the Wi-Fi hotspot and connect to Lantern with any Wi-Fi enabled device. All you need is a browser.
Oh, and Outernet is free to use, always.
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Is it just me, or does it reek of snakeoil?.. Also, is it in any way related to: https://getlantern.org/ -- Pozdr rysiek
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:17:25AM +0100, rysiek wrote:
Dnia czwartek, 13 listopada 2014 09:52:35 Eugen Leitl pisze:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lantern-one-device-free-data-from-space-f... [snip] Lantern continuously receives radio waves broadcast by Outernet from space.
device. All you need is a browser.
Oh, and Outernet is free to use, always.
Outernet, at least, appears to be a real thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outernet https://www.outernet.is
Is it just me, or does it reek of snakeoil?.. Also, is it in any way related to: https://getlantern.org/
Appears to be a different project. -andy
Do your own research on my statements, they are based on a brief review of their marketing materials from 1-2 months ago: The biggest problem I have with this project is that the sats are centralized. I don't see how it can live up to 'censorship free.' It depends on a crowd-sourced list of articles + funding from private advertisers. You need to be morally aligned with the 'majority of people' - the minorities are still oppressed and marginalized. Corporate interests pay for top hits. Not enough protection against sybil attacks. Many, many many many more problems they need to address. Neat idea on the face, though, just need to iron out some really big problems (sybil, distributed control of sat systems, ???.) -Travis On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:17:25AM +0100, rysiek wrote:
Dnia czwartek, 13 listopada 2014 09:52:35 Eugen Leitl pisze:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lantern-one-device-free-data-from-space-f... [snip]
Lantern continuously receives radio waves broadcast by Outernet from space.
device. All you need is a browser.
Oh, and Outernet is free to use, always.
Outernet, at least, appears to be a real thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outernet
Is it just me, or does it reek of snakeoil?.. Also, is it in any way related to: https://getlantern.org/
Appears to be a different project.
-andy
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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. And it's centralized, so as soon as the central authority (the satellites) are compromised, the whole system is owned. 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. On Thu, 2014-11-13 at 16:47 -0500, Travis Biehn wrote:
Do your own research on my statements, they are based on a brief review of their marketing materials from 1-2 months ago:
The biggest problem I have with this project is that the sats are centralized. I don't see how it can live up to 'censorship free.'
It depends on a crowd-sourced list of articles + funding from private advertisers.
You need to be morally aligned with the 'majority of people' - the minorities are still oppressed and marginalized. Corporate interests pay for top hits. Not enough protection against sybil attacks. Many, many many many more problems they need to address.
Neat idea on the face, though, just need to iron out some really big problems (sybil, distributed control of sat systems, ???.)
-Travis
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:17:25AM +0100, rysiek wrote: > Dnia czwartek, 13 listopada 2014 09:52:35 Eugen Leitl pisze: > > https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lantern-one-device-free-data-from-space-f... [snip] > > Lantern continuously receives radio waves broadcast by Outernet from space.
> > device. All you need is a browser. > > > > Oh, and Outernet is free to use, always.
Outernet, at least, appears to be a real thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outernet
> Is it just me, or does it reek of snakeoil?.. Also, is it in any way related > to: > https://getlantern.org/
Appears to be a different project.
-andy
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Dnia piątek, 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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Is it just me, or does it reek of snakeoil?.. Also, is it in any way related
The "magick satellite network ov data" that's always on? Yeah, it smells a little funny to me. Satellite time isn't cheap. HP printer ink is way cheaper. On the other hand, I found these from the same project: https://outernet-project.github.io/orx-install/ https://github.com/Outernet-Project/orx-install They specifically talk about using some of the sub-$20us software defined receivers (like the RTLSDR) to pick up the data to store locally. They have quite a few public repositories that might be worth picking through, for that matter: https://github.com/Outernet-Project I don't have a whole lot of time to go hunting right now, but what little I've done suggests that the source for odda (OuterNet Data Delivery Agent, which takes the data stream from the sat downlink and writes it as files appropriately) isn't available, or at least not yet. For setting up a data archive like that (which is an interest of mine), I can't, in good conscience, trust a daemon the source of which I can't examine. Too much at risk for my use cases.
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