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Disposable VPN: Tor Gateways With EC2 Free Tiers

Posted by timothy on from the getting-the-message-across dept.

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."

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  1. Wouldn't it be more "accessible" by eksith · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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  2. Amazon EC 2 IP reputation gets even worse by lordsilence · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Amazon EC 2 IP reputation gets even worse by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The IP reputation of Amazon EC2 was already bad (with many services blocking EC2 pre-emptively) now it's going to get even worse.

      This VM is a VPN link from one or more users to a TOR bridge. Where the packets hit the un-encrypted internet has nothing to do with where the VM is hosted, it will only be TOR exit nodes. This VM will have minimal impact on the "reputation" of EC2 because TOR's entire purpose is to hide the origin.

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  3. And utter lack of any goal, laziness by raymorris · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "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.

  4. If you really need a VPN and know why you do by symbolset · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then using somebody else's ain't gonna work.

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  5. Re:Attention - Young Turks by poetmatt · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "get a permit, lodge a protest dressed in decent clothes and presentable facial hair (the scraggly beards with the last 2-3 meals encrusted in it doesn't help matters), and when done with the march, LEAVE."

    Uh, have you ever heard of civil disobedience? this statement I quoted from above is the exact opposite of what a protest is for. Meanwhile, Teabaggers have funding from incredibly wealthy vested interests so they had tons more publicity. OWS coverage was minimized due to the same people's interests.

    lesson wrong: anonymous.

    While shouting is not going to get a protest message across, you can't expect everyone to magically dress like a lawyer when they protest.