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It probably saves them a whole load of pain. And you are rather a special case, how many non-bots try to access Stack Overflow via a EC2 do you think? There ar

• bambax 16y ago
  > There are plenty of other cheap VPS providers anyway... Certainly, but what am I supposed to do, hop from provider to provider according to who (blanket-)blocks what...? > you are rather a special case I setup this VPN, following instructions from a blog post from 2009; I'm guessing there are many people who did the same? But if I'm going to die as collateral damage, I don't intend to succumb quietly! ;-)
  • subway 16y ago
    While I don't agree with an employer or job site filtering web access, following a two year old blog post on circumventing a client's security measures borders on irresponsible and stupid. You may think of it as only bypassing some web filtering, but by establishing a VPN connection across their border, you've potentially opened their network up to any insecurities in your machine or your EC2 instance with a direct link past their border that your client is completely unaware of. If you need to perform work on a client site that isn't permitted over their network, you should bring your own connectivity. I carry a cheap cdma modem for that very purpose. Just don't expose your client to additional risks so that you can read SO.
• jjcm 16y ago
  Certainly. If someone's looking for a cheap vps to tunnel through, http://www.lowendbox.com/ http://www.lowendbox.com/ provides a listing of all the cheapest deals out there. While they wont provide much in the way of disk space or processing power, they're perfect for tunnels.