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Disposable VPN: Tor Gateways With EC2 Free Tiers
The established regime in Turkey (not to mention many other countries: take your pick) may not like any-to-many communications, but luckily established regimes don't always get the final word. An anonymous reader writes "Lahana is my little side project to help people access the Internet and Tor via Amazon EC2 free tier-based VPNs. It's a couple of scripts that set up a new VPN in a couple of minutes that automatically tunnels everything through Tor. It's easy to share credentials with groups of people and for most people is free to set up and use. I built it with Turkey in mind, but it no doubt has other uses."
If there was more of ad-hoc mesh of peers connecting Jordan to neighbors? The "Internet" may be blocked, but that's still within. An "extranet" may be harder to block/filter etc... This still has to go through Jordan's tubes, which they, or any other country really, can cut at any point as well.
If computers were people, I'd be a misanthrope.
Turks - don't let your movement fizzle and be subject to intimidation and co-opting by lunatic fringes. That is where America's occupy movement failed. Do not stop until the establishment makes concessions for you and fears you. There is a lot at stake here, if you lose, you will be reduced to a state not unlike that of Saudi Arabia.
-- Ethanol-fueled
or at least that's what aws website says
It's a good idea, but it'll also creates a hassle with spammers, bots, scrapers and other malicious users that will use Amazon EC2 to do bad stuff.
The IP reputation of Amazon EC2 was already bad (with many services blocking EC2 pre-emptively) now it's going to get even worse.
In the past malicious amazon ec2 users would at least have to put some effort into learning EC2. Now they can just use the TOR layer instead to use amazon IPs.
Actually, connectivity here is pretty damned great. The movement is a lot, lot bigger than the US-Occupy efforts - and is supported by many companies and businesses.
Yesterday for the rallies / riots, TurkCell had installed several mobile cell-repeaters. Even during the most intense of confrontations with the cops, I had perfect cell, data and voice reception.
What prevents Turk government to block EC2 IP ranges?
That Western-American-Christian freedom is still better Eastern-Old World (Persian-Arabic)-Muslim freedom.
Don't do anything on those Amazon VPNs that will get you noticed in America like downloading Disney flicks from the 1940's my Turkish brothers. Otherwise feel free to use it to rebel against your own societies serving the ends of our Overlords just the same. (Sarcasm)
Strange, this "article" does not even mention the official Tor Project Cloud effort: https://cloud.torproject.org/
http://unfix.org
How long would it be before all of AWS was just blocked at the national firewall level? Its not like these regimes give a crud what else they accidentally block. Most of them would as soon just block the whole thing if they could...
"Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem." -- Jefferson
"That is where America's occupy movement failed."
That, and the fact that they had no goal, nothing specific they were trying to accomplish other than to complain that some people (ie college grads) earn more than others (mostly dropouts and liberal arts majors). Also, their complete laziness - refusal to DO anything other than sit in a park smoking weed.
So yeah, Turks, don't fall into those two traps. Find an actual solution to advocate for, then do something about it. It seems that getting high and whining doesn't improve your life effectively.
would be vuln to correlation analysis
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The essence of Tor is that your message passes through multiple nodes (say 3), none of which knows your message's origin and destination (and indeed content). But this breaks down if all the nodes are controlled by the same sysadmin.
Surely if we end up with a high proportion of nodes on Amazon, then some communications will be routed entirely between Amazon nodes. Then this breaks the anonymity model, allowing the secret policeman to log (or subpoena) the user's traffic.
perl -e 'fork||print for split//,"hahahaha"'
Then using somebody else's ain't gonna work.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
Worse, this sounds *far* less secure than using Tor's official bridge system, which does exactly the same thing.
Amazon might not share your data with Turkey directly. If however Turkey asks the CIA, etc., the CIA, etc. might very well take your data form Amazon using an NSL and send it to Turkey.
If you want a fast insecure VPN that's good enough for most things, then simply VPN through Amazon's EC2 or whatever.
If you want a more secure but slower VPN, then simply use Tor directly. If Tor seems blocked, follow the Tor bridge usage instructions.
The Christian religion has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. -- Bertrand Russell
But hey, it's Tor, so who cares about anyone's desires but your own, right?
What has always bothered me was how does one know if the VPN or Tor gateway is in the hands of freedom lovers or snoopers?
Only if one sets up a gateway themselves can one know for sure, but that pointing a neon sign to oneself saying "Here's another freedom lover!"
So we need some way of checking on the veracity of a VPN or Tor to ensure that it is not some compromised agent who will snoop and report!
Where do we get REAL freedom?
Anyone remember this quote?
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
Awesome.
I need one of these so bad ,to stop the filthy police force interfering in my freedom of electronic speech.
The ones that tell you when you are wrong and don't partake in your idiocies.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
Otherwise is not effective, it becomes just er, disobedience.
Here in London the people that occupied a space in front of St Pauls Cathedral and later on in Finsbury Park (both at the heart of the financial heart of London) were demonized, but in all honesty their nonsensical antics, purposeless rantings on national TV and lack of clear political aims and grievances made it a piece of cake to portrait them like a bunch of nutcases.
You may say whatever you want about the Tea Parters, but you can't say the money is what makes them stand. They know what they want, they organize and fight for it, and they have shaped part of the political landscape in the US (to the point that their pressure has lost the Republicans 2 Presidential elections. May that continue).
Political organization requires far more than a flash mob called with Facebook.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.