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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.
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.
I flew 3,500km this weekend to support the Turks w/ their cause. It's absolutely not just 'Young Turks' - it's young, old, male, female, working class, middle class, upper class - aethiest, christian, islam - all in it together.
The US-based occupy movements were formed on arguably shaky foundations. This isn't - the park was simply a trigger point for what has been a 10 year gradual decay of rights, liberties and privledges.
It's certainly far from Attaturk's legacy.
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?
Strange, this "article" does not even mention the official Tor Project Cloud effort: https://cloud.torproject.org/
http://unfix.org
They want a phone number to verify against now. You can use a prepaid card AFAIK still, but that won't help you stay anonymous...
"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.
Occupy Wall Street was the voice of the 99% rising up against the 1%. The elite used police thugs to bring an end to the uppity commoners. It's sad you've fallen for the false narrative provided by Fox News.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Then using somebody else's ain't gonna work.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
OWS did two things: It helped Corrections Corporation of America fill the beds with felonies handed out like candy and it gave local PDs the excuse to do some riot practice on citizens.
Maybe if OWS did what Beck's Restoring Honor rallies did -- 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. Beck got two million people into and out of DC, zero arrests, zero murders, zero rapes, zero people stabbed, and DC was actually left cleaner.
The teabaggers may be a laughingstock, but they didn't leave tents in public places until cities had a sanitation issue, nor did they stop day to day business, getting them a lot of bad press.
Had OWS played by the same rules that everyone else did, they might have had a shot at a Congresscritter's ear or two. However trying to do a re-enactment of Woodstock did nothing for their cause, and in fact made Congress move away from ever wanting to hear a word from anything Occupy*. In my neck of the woods, even the KKK and Nazi parties have the ability to do their marches; they just get the permits ahead of time.
Lesson learned: Dress the part, shave the beard, cover the tattoos, get a haircut, and conduct oneself properly, and maybe one will get a message across, and maybe there will be discussion, not riot teams showing up.