getlantern

lantern

Dart2012–2018

getlantern / lantern

lantern

Open-source VPN for speed, privacy, and censorship circumvention. Free to download on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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What it is

Open-source VPN for speed, privacy, and censorship circumvention. Free to download on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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Observed mentions: 2012-10-25 02:48:53 UTC to 2018-08-03 18:44:27 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2012	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	1	1
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

What Hacker News says

7 sources

danesparza·Aug 3, 2018

https://github.com/getlantern/lantern https://github.com/iikira/BaiduPCS-Go https://github.com/Jannchie/Historical-ranking-data-visualiz... Just to name 3. You can see them on https://github.com/trending when filtering by langauge

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kevindeasis·Feb 24, 2016Submission

Secure access to the open Internet for users in censored regions

1 points · Open discussion

cholmesny·Aug 28, 2015

All the available binaries are listed at the top of the readme on https://github.com/getlantern/lantern

In Lantern – Open Internet for Everyone

dang·Aug 27, 2015

Ok. Url changed from https://github.com/getlantern/lantern?.

In Lantern – Open Internet for Everyone

cholmesny·Nov 29, 2013

Lantern's main goal is fast access, Tor's is anonymity. We know the Tor developers, and recommend their tool for when people must be anonymous and secure. Lantern aims more at mainstream users who just want to avoid censors for fast access to the open web. It also uses some different approaches, see https://github.com/getlantern/lantern/wiki/%5Bdevelopers%5D-... for some info on the tech.

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arash_milani·Aug 28, 2013Submission

Lantern: Securely share connections to defeat censorship

2 points · Open discussion

adamfisk·Oct 25, 2012

Anyone have an example of good cert verification in Java? The concept at https://github.com/iSECPartners/ssl-conservatory is great, but it needs examples in more languages. Our case is pretty weird (some self-signed certs between peers, cert pinning of sorts in that we only accept equifax as a root signer, no default signing authorities accepted), but anyone see holes in the authenticate method of our trust manager at: https://github.com/getlantern/lantern/blob/master/src/main/j... ? This code is intended for deployment in potentially dangerous regions for getting around government censors. Thanks.

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