SSH, Safe surfing and avoiding the wrath of the Net Filter

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Many of my friends often wonder how to avoid their corporate firewalls, and secure their traffic against snooper. Well, its pretty easy to avoid the network traffic cops.

People need a method to be safe anywhere where they end up logging on outside their homes, where they have (mostly) all of the privacy and security they need.

Maybe they just want to browse the latest torrents, or god forbid run a P2P client outside their own network.

Obviously there are many restricted uses of corporate resources, (should you really be downloading playmate images at any time outside your own home?!) but reading private emails in your dinner hour? Checking how your shares are doing ready for the purchase of your 60ft yacht?

Well I often wondered that too; how I’m going to get a 60 foot yacht, not about tunnelling IP traffic 😉 !

It turns out my esteemed WPF co-worker, Tim Haughton, has just put up a nice blog entry about how to set yourself up to do just that. Check out the offending blog entry 🙂 He’s articulated much better than I could.

Oh, and happy surfing.

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