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SideStep does all of this for you. You can forgo the whole OpenVPN section (Steps 12 through 22) if you just want to use SideStep.

The AMI recommended in the post is pre-configured to use EBS. Makes things a lot easier that way!

Looking at the cost, the EC2 setup is a lot cheaper.

That is a great option for people who have a dd-wrt/tomato/etc. compatible wireless device. The goal of the post was for folks who don't already have a solution setup and to get pe…

For the purpose of defeating FireSheep, ssd -D works just fine. OpenVPN in the configuration of the blog post utilizes 443/tcp, which is open at most places, while the ports requir…

SideStep basically automates ssh -D for you and sets up a local SOCKS proxy. However SOCKS proxies (and thus the current version of Sidestep) can only protect TCP traffic that supp…