Route all of your internet traffic through a proxy

Route all of your internet traffic through a proxy

Do you work from coffee shops or communal public wireless presences (like FON) and want to keep your internet traffic safe?

With an SSH account on a server outside of your wireless location (through a web hosting service Dreamhost, my service that includes SSH access to your server) you can create a SSH tunnel and use that to encrypt all traffic from your desktop to the host on the outside.

Snoopers can’t sniff, any content filters can’t see what you’re doing, and passwords remain secure up to the point where they exit the SSH tunnel on the far end. VERY COOL.

[via lifehacker]