Technofobe

Ok. So, I've been doing a lot of work from the local Austin coffee shops lately. I like getting out of the office and getting some good work done. There are some great places around Austin to visit. I've been to a lot and my personal favorite for getting a lot of work down is Flight Path. I could go on about coffee shops in town, but this post is supposed to be about SSH.

Ok, so if your reading this then you probably know that surfing the net in a coffee shop can be risky if you are doing anything that you'd like to keep private. To stay secure, you can tunnel your network traffic from your laptop (at the coffee shop) back through your home internet connection (which is presumably more secure.) This will help prevent the unscrupulous sort of folks from snooping into your business.

You can do all of this using freely available software and once it's set up it's very easy to use.

Also, I've heard of people using this to bypass the web filters at work since you are basically setting up a proxy at your home. NOTE! Please be aware that if you do this at work to subvert the security measures put in place by your local IT folks then you could get in to big trouble! There, you've been warned...

Anyway, here's a link to download the paper outlining the steps and software needed.

Enjoy.

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