Show HN: Lahana – my VPN to Tor gateway script for EC2 Free-tier users

Re:Show HN: Lahana – my VPN to Tor gateway script for EC2 Fr... by jtome on Sunday June 02, 2013 @08:11PM (#5810645)

In any case, since you mentioned that tracking from the destination is a concern, if one is going to be using lahana, I think also using torbutton is a good idea, since you will otherwise be vulnerable to browser fingerprinting (see https://blog.torproject.org/blog/effs-panopticlick-and-torbu...). Since Torbutton assumes you will be using tor in the recommended manner, one using lahana would have to: 1. Click on Torbutton 2. Go to "preferences" 3. Select "Transparent Torification (requires custom transproxy or Tor router)" 4. Press Ok

I think browser fingerprinting might be more of a theoretical threat, and don't know if it has ever been successfully used so it may not be worth your concern.

Keep in mind that using Torbutton (and https everywhere as you recommended) is currently possible only on the desktop version of firefox.

I haven't been following Turkey news related to tor but if you look at https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=direct-users... it doesn't seem like Tor is being blocked

Anyways good luck with this

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Re:Show HN: Lahana – my VPN to Tor gateway script for EC2 Fr... by _b8r0 on Sunday June 02, 2013 @08:14PM (#5810655)

Thanks for that. I'll take a look into that tomorrow. I'm shattered right now. Trying to just get some nodes up. If I can at least provide the same level of security as the telecomix guys I think everyone (including the telecomix guys) are all doing well.

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