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Life & fun · December 8, 2010

Help Amazon EC2 be a foremost supporter of WikiLeaks and Tor

I just set up a new Amazon EC2 account, free for one year, with their Free Usage Tier (http://aws.amazon.com/free/) and installed a Tor Proxy on it. Quite easy to do and as long as you keep an eye on the transfer volume it doesn't cost a dime! (30 GB are free) Why not help Amazon to be a first class supporter of WikiLeaks and the first amendment?

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