The VPN is cryptographically weak compared to a certificate-based VPN but I wanted something as easy as possible to set up a client. “Tor is much better at providing secrecy but needs software installed. The system does not provide user secrecy, Lord says, and users who are concerned with secrecy should use Tor on its own, although that requires the installation of the Tor software. There is a step-by-step guide for users who want to configure their iPhones to use a Lahana node. Users then can connect to the node and all of their Internet traffic will run through Tor and out through a Tor exit node. Once the node is established, the owner can then share the hostname, username, password and secret with others, either selectively or publicly. The scripts will automatically build a Lahana node, which functions as a VPN-to-Tor bridge. Lahana comprises a set of scripts that users can upload to an Amazon EC2 Free Tier instance. “It also gave me the opportunity to spend more time playing with tor and with VPNs, something I’ve been meaning to get around to doing.”
It turns out that mobile connections at least aren’t as heavily filtered but as it turns out, Lahana appears to give users a totally clean Internet feed making it ideal for regular people too,” Lord said via email. “I was following the Turkish protests and started to see reports of Facebook and Twitter being blocked from landline Internet connections and wanted to do something hopefully helpful. Lord said he wanted to develop a way for people to still have clear access to the Internet when needed. Social media networks have emerged as important tools for activists in a number of countries and have played a role in demonstrations in places such as Egypt and Syria in the past. Lahana is the work of Steve Lord, a security researcher in the U.K., who said he was watching the unrest in Turkey unfold and began noticing reports of services such as Facebook and Twitter being blocked there. A security researcher over the weekend released a new tool called Lahana that enables users to quickly build a VPN server on Amazon’s EC2 cloud platform and provide access to the Internet and the Tor anonymity service for other users.
As the anti-government protests in Turkey have escalated in the last few days, privacy activists and security experts have begun working on ways to help people inside Turkey get reliable access to the Internet and privacy tools such as Tor.
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