There’s nothing better than going somewhere with your laptop and discovering an open wifi access point. You open up your computer, do a quick scan and think to yourself “wohoo! Free internet!”. Most people know that being on an open wifi access point can be potentially dangerous, but think what are the odds that someone [...]
This is basically an ammendment to the Private Web Browsing with SSH Tunneling and Putty article from earlier this year. What I wasn’t aware of until today is that even when following the method in that article, your DNS queries were using its regular DNS servers to resolve domain names. What this means is that [...]
Web browsing through SSH tunneling gives you the ability to browse the web privately by encrypting all web traffic out of your computer. This gives you privacy to know that anyone eavesdropping on your connection using something like Wireshark. It also allows you to by-pass any internet content restrictions that may be in place where [...]
