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Originally Posted by yifanlu
How could a VPN client enable 3G abuse?
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Actually, a VPN is just a type of tunnel. If you really want to know, (naughty or desperate) people tether (tunnel PC internet access over USB through amazon free 3G) with Jesse's modified corkscrew, or by adding the "magic header" to privoxy. At least I did not provide easy to use instructions. Hopefully people who can figure it out are responsible enough to NOT abuse it.
A VPN connection from the kindle to a home server could send any kind of traffic over it, disguised as innocent HTML, with proper header configuration. The problem is that it is all too easy to consume excess bandwidth (think of Windows PCs polluted with applications that phone-home to check for updates) which WOULD eventually get noticed when amazon gets the 12 cents/MB bill from Sprint (or AT&T). They are likely to pass that on to you at 15 cents/MB (per your kindle registration agreement), or worse, clamp down on free 3G for everybody.
If you *really* wanted to, you could configure a kindle as a Wi-Fi hotspot, to share 3G internet over Wi-Fi, but that would eat batteries faster (but you could power the kindle through its USB port). And of course, tunneling traffic simultaneously from multiple PCs would just get your traffic noticed faster by amazon.
And sharing amazon 3G with your neighbors might encourage streaming video or music downloads. Would amazon be happy getting notices from the motion picture and music industries (or even just the bills from the cellphone companies)?