More Computer Geek Stuff
Through the magic of OpenSSH and Privoxy, I now have a nice secure tunneling proxy available for those times when I have to use public WiFi. Thanks to Dr. Strangegun for serving as a remote tester.
In other news, the One Laptop Per Child people finally went ahead with their “buy 2, get 1” sales scheme. You pay for two machines, they send you one and donate the other to a poor child. The little machines are especially appealing now that there’s a team working to get Debian running in place of the goofy Red Hat-derived distribution with the strange interface. That’s going on my Christmas list.
I’d paint that thing before I’d take it anywhere… at least to to get rid of the green.
Comment by Alcibiades McZombie — September 30, 2007 @ 11:01 pm
SOCKS forwarding though ssh for me! (internet access only)
All my work at defcon was done through a vnc session port forwarded through an ssh tunnel.
Comment by existingthing — October 1, 2007 @ 7:46 pm
Are you aware of the risk of DNS leaks with SOCKS?
Comment by TD — October 2, 2007 @ 12:11 am
Meh. I’m only concerned about encrypting the traffic. I don’t care if someone knows what site I’m going to. (in most cases) Otherwise, I’ll just use the vnc. Thanks for the info, though!
Comment by existingthing — October 2, 2007 @ 4:19 pm