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by 0m1cr0n 3385 days ago
When you set up an AWS EC2 instance (hosts the Squid server) you create "Security Groups" -- effectively a virtual firewall. So unless the instance operator configures an inbound 0.0.0.0 "accept" rule, it will probably be filtered to only accept connections from other instances in your VPC.