does anyone have a configured aws image? seems like that would help - people could just deploy them to micro instances for free...<p>[i am about to try build this on an aws instance, but since i know very little about images i am sure others will be better/quicker than me]<p>[update: if anyone else is doing this, you are best picking a new base distro that is new enough to contain libevent 2]
Not to derail, but the depressing headlines from Syria suggest the need there for secure communication with the outside world is particularly urgent at present.
Here's the beauty of an interconnected world. You can actually help someone else directly. People can easily organize around the globe to let those in power know they can't just keep doing whatever they want. Keep up the good fight!
After reading the post above, I reached out to our cloud vendors and got them to sponsor us with Tor-servers. As of right now, we have five Tor server up and running, and we are expecting more shortly (more here <a href="http://wireload.net/2012/02/were-helping-tor-project-bypass-government-censorship/" rel="nofollow">http://wireload.net/2012/02/were-helping-tor-project-bypass-...</a>)
Out of curiosity, what prevents Iran from just blocking all Tor end nods ?<p>If del.icio.us is able to do it[1], surely Iran must be able to too.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3567996" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3567996</a>
I only know a little bit about tor, but my understanding is that if you run a relay, then you are basically proxying traffic for other people on the tor network.<p>If this is true, and if someone is looking at kiddie porn through your connection, could you get implicated?
speaking of this, does anyone have the html/images of the iranian block page? I collect them and would really appreciate it if someone was able to send that along. Or does the iranian firewall just drop the connection without the censorship notice?
Would running through an unencrypted socat tunnel (<a href="http://freecode.com/projects/socat" rel="nofollow">http://freecode.com/projects/socat</a>) defeat the DPI?<p>If yes, you could setup a tunnel on port 80 and then run openvpn or tor through it. Technically it works as I've done this for a friend in China (but China wasn't doing DPI on SSL handshaking).<p>I posted this same question on the earlier Iran shutdown thread but was probably too late to get a response (<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3577901" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3577901</a>).
I know jack about tor except other than it's purpose, but shouldn't it be possible to configure a virtual machine to do this and upload it, so that one would "only" have to mount the machine and turn it on in order to help?