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thoughtcrime

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ghostship: runs the windows proxy application "Ultrasurf" as a daemon

I like to run "Ultrasurf" with wine on Archlinux, because it is a free and for that pretty fast nice proxy application which tunnels everything through SSL. While doing so, I've started writing scripts that automate things for me. Lately I decided to advance these scripts even further to a fully functional daemon I call ghostship. So here's a quick overview what that daemon does:

* Create its own user and group to limit its rights
* Set up a wineprefix
* Install/update Ultrasurf
* Install the needed dlls by downloading and installing the m$ visual c++ runtime
* Runs Ultrasurf hidden in a vnc server, thus no GUI will be annoying you
* Sends data through Ultrasurf from time to time, to make sure that it keeps connected
* If Ultrasurf is not connected for whatever reason, it restarts the whole vnc server

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