tunnel arbitrary protocols through https needs: an AWS EC2 account: http://aws.amazon.com Tim's aws script: https://raw.github.com/timkay/aws/master/aws starts an EC2 micro instance with ArchLinux image upgrades ArchLinux installs, configures and runs tinyproxy creates a local SOCKS proxy, using an ssh tunnel via corkscrew to tinyproxy exports the local SOCKS proxy