Comments on: How To: Surf Securely with an SSH Tunnel

By: How To/Review: Surf Securely with VyprVPN — PaulStamatiou.com

How To/Review: Surf Securely with VyprVPN — PaulStamatiou.com — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:13:13 +0000

[...] in. I have previously discussed a few ways of solving this issue through the use of SSH tunnels (manually-created and application managed). I have also discussed things like “anonymous” web browsing [...]

By: Zend Studio (Eclipse) Remote Editing through a secure proxy

Zend Studio (Eclipse) Remote Editing through a secure proxy — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:47:09 +0000

[...] that’s what I concluded after so many hours of googling. Then I found this super awesome article. We can use Putty! Or just plain ol’ Terminal on a Mac (Linux should be the same I [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:59:10 +0000

It also might be useful for OSX users to set up a shell alias to save you having to type out the terminal command every time. Check out here for a good howto: http://hayne.net/MacDev/Notes/unixFAQ.html#shellAliases

By: esck

esck — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:24:00 +0000

is this something that could be against our host ToS?

I’ve been using this trick and proxifier to access US restricted sites like hulu.

By: Randy

Randy — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:35:31 +0000

Daniel… Figured it out. Man its sweet to be able to do this from…work. ;)

By: Daniel Andrade

Daniel Andrade — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:33:39 +0000

Randy, yes, me

By: Randy

Randy — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:30:45 +0000

Has anyone done this on a PC with Putty via MediaTemple and Firefox?

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:19:28 +0000

As long as you are keeping the SSH session open.

By: John Smith

John Smith — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:44:35 +0000

Does this last until you restart your mac?

By: Tim Fletcher

Tim Fletcher — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:23:27 +0000

This is simply awesome. Now I can actually make use of the 99.5% unused bandwidth my server has each month and finally use Pandora/Hulu/Netflix etc!

Just a note that if you’ve changed the SSH port (for security reasons), you’ll need to add that in. Like this

ssh -D 8080 -f -C -q -N -p XXXXX myuser@myserver.com

By: Anonymize Your Web Traffic with JanusPA - PaulStamatiou.com

Anonymize Your Web Traffic with JanusPA - PaulStamatiou.com — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:43:36 +0000

[...] like a final version would be in the $200+ dollar range. Some might like to stick to a cheaper SSH tunnel route as I often use when traveling and using untrusted networks, especially since I can’t [...]

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:07:34 +0000

Hi, sorry, I found a mistake in my setup, now it seems to work. The checking routines of the website provided in my previous message is happy now. Sorry to have bothered you unfoundedly, but maybe that address is useful. Thomas

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:56:26 +0000

Hi, please note that this is not completely secure. Check http://www.auditmypc.com/anonymous-surfing.asp, which will still be able to see your true IP number. If I understand this correctly, one can only be safe if one disables all Javascript/Java ability and thus loose the respective functionality. With those enabled, however, scripts telling a true identity can be run on your local computer. Beware.

Thanks for this information anyway, because in many cases this is enough to get access to local systems etc.

All the best,

Thomas

By: PDF downloads made easy in Firefox and more! | Fading Whispers: The Chronicles

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:17:09 +0000

[...] my web hosts (DreamHost) would allow this, but it didn’t work out when I tried it according Paul Stamatiou’s directions. So, right now, I won’t mind paying a $5 monthly fee for an service that supports [...]

By: …My heart’s in Accra » Internet Censorship and Nose-Thumbing

…My heart’s in Accra » Internet Censorship and Nose-Thumbing — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:09:28 +0000

[...] I’ll be interested to see what sorts of creative nose-thumbing press folks in Beijing will engage in. For folks heading to Beijing, BoingBoing has a lovely list of possible circumvention strategies, a few of which will work on the Great Firewall. CitizenLab’s guide to Circumvention is probably the best single resource on the topic – it’s available as a PDF. To offer a very quick piece of advice – if you work for a news organization that has even a minimum of tech resources you want to either set up an instance of Psiphon or learn how to tunnel your net connections via a SSH connection. [...]

By: …My heart’s in Accra » Nosethumbing and internet censorship

…My heart’s in Accra » Nosethumbing and internet censorship — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:06:10 +0000

By: peter

peter — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:01:35 +0000

You may also test privacy of internal IP address this way:

open -a Safari http://www.auditmypc.com/software_audit.asp

( http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/1326 )

By: Review: Meerkat (SSH Tunnels Made Easy) - PaulStamatiou.com

Review: Meerkat (SSH Tunnels Made Easy) - PaulStamatiou.com — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:05:57 +0000

[...] traveling and became somewhat paranoid about the Internet connections I found at various hotels. I began using SSH tunnels to protect my web traffic when using Internet connections I did not trust. While setting up an SSH tunnel is a fairly trivial [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:09:30 +0000

Great resource. After fumbling with free SOCKS this works great. For some reason ftp would stall to my MT server, something the MT techs could never fix nor really work out why it would be happening.

After trying this, Transmit is no longer stalling.

By: James Cassell

James Cassell — Sun, 18 May 2008 01:51:31 +0000

I do this all the time, though for different reasons. For some reason, my university blocks outgoing SMTP, so I just tunnel through with SSH. It works pretty well.

By: Dean

Dean — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:09:14 +0000

Hey, Paul, I think your site had some downtime earlier. Well, it could’ve been my connection, but…

By: Ben K.

Ben K. — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:32:51 +0000

I’m using Firefox to do this but make sure that Safari or whatever browser your using can use your remote SSH server as remote DNS. If you don’t then whoever is monitoring your connection will know exactly where you are browsing based on the local DNS requests. I thought I was completely safe until I fired up ethereal and saw my DNS requests going to the local server.

For Firefox:

1. Browse to “about:config”
2. Type “dns” in the filter field
3. Look for “network.proxy.socks_remote_dns” and set the value to “true”
4. Restart Firefox just to be safe and surf away!

By: Daniel Andrade

Daniel Andrade — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:00:55 +0000

Nice post paul! Are you using it with MediaTemple?

By: Bill O'Neill

Bill O'Neill — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:03:56 +0000

I’ve been using ssh tunnels to a squid http proxy I run at home. Then using http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/ I can selectively pick what content I want run through there.

By: Mark Nichols

Mark Nichols — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:06:50 +0000

Douglas Bowman published an excellent guide to using ssh to secure email transmitted over a wireless connection. I’ve been using his method for the past three years without fail and without any issues.

http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2005/02/07/secure-email.html