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Chromebooks are perfect companions for travel. They are light, secure and one generally doesn't have to worry about data theft in case they loose the device.  But s urfing from hotels and coffee shops is another story. While most sites are in SSL, there are enough websites which are not... and even the ones which support SSL sometimes forget to use SSL connectivity for sensitive data. Which is why extensions like " HTTPS everywhere " is highly recommended. If I could, I'd pay a few cents for extra level of privacy when using these public wifi networks. In this post I'll document how you could quickly setup an openvpn server on EC2 instance to do exactly this for your chromebook. Prerequisites  A working EC2 account A working key-pair (required to ssh into the EC2 instance) Chromebook with R23 or later  Step 1 - Launch Amazon Linux AMI ( I used 32 bit for my setup.. its the cheapest). Pick all the defaults options and pay attention to which "Security Group&qu

Chromebooks are perfect companions for travel. They are light, secure and one generally doesn't have to worry about data theft in case they loose the device.  But s urfing from hotels and coffee shops is another story. While most sites are in SSL, there are enough websites which are not... and even the ones which support SSL sometimes forget to use SSL connectivity for sensitive data. Which is why extensions like " HTTPS everywhere " is highly recommended. If I could, I'd pay a few cents for extra level of privacy when using these public wifi networks. In this post I'll document how you could quickly setup an openvpn server on EC2 instance to do exactly this for your chromebook. Prerequisites  A working EC2 account A working key-pair (required to ssh into the EC2 instance) Chromebook with R23 or later  Step 1 - Launch Amazon Linux AMI ( I used 32 bit for my setup.. its the cheapest). Pick all the defaults options and pay attention to which "Security Group&qu