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What about the risk to users who provide access to other users?

Edit: In Give Access mode, what other users get access? Is that limited to those specified via Google Talk?

Yeah great question. The short answer is that we'll ultimately allow give mode users to control what sites are proxied through them. In Lantern 2.x so far we've actually stripped this functionality entirely as a temporary measure for a few reasons. First, we re-wrote the whole app in Go, and we wanted to cut as much scope as possible to make the leap. Second, the whole p2p model works a lot better with a lot of users in censored regions, particularly from more of a marketing perspective in terms of users really having a real impact from uncensored regions as soon as they run Lantern. So for a long time that wasn't the case, but we're now seeing large user numbers and very fast growth in censored regions around the world. So we're going to re-introduce peers very soon, and those peers will have a really significant impact on blocking resistance and cost scalability.

Thanks very much for the thoughtful answer. I do get your focus on providing access for users in censored regions. And it is arguable that few of those users are doing anything that would be problematic for access-providing peers in uncensored regions. But still, Lantern is a system proxy, and so there's more potential for abuse. Have you looked at port filtering and blocklists?

Yeah how are they solving the tor outproxy problem? You are essentially letting another user use your IP to access websites, which holds a lot of room for abuse.

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