Disposable VPN: Tor Gateways With EC2 Free Tiers 78
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."
Re:Attention - Young Turks (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Next move: block EC2 IP ranges? (Score:4, Interesting)
Block the whole range (Score:2, Interesting)
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...
Re:Amazon EC 2 IP reputation gets even worse (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
We have already blocked EC2 addresses from accessing any of public sites where I work due to the sheer volume of bots and site scrapers coming from there. I would not be surprised if many other places around the world are actively doing the same.
Re:Attention - Young Turks (Score:3, Interesting)
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.