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Encrypt your web browsing session (with an SSH SOCKS proxy)
Published February 18th, 2007 in Anonymity, Browser Security, How-to, Privacy
You’re at an open wireless hotspot, but you don’t want to send your web browsing data over it in plain text. Or you want to visit a 
non-work-approved web page from the office computer without the IT team finding out. Using a simple SSH command, you can encrypt all your web browsing traffic and redirect it through a trusted computer when you’re on someone else’s network. Today we’ll set up a local proxy server that encrypts your online activity from your Mac, PC or Linux desktop. Here’s how.
SS-wha? you ask. Proxy server? Huh? Don’t let the intimidating words and acronyms scare you off. This IS an advanced technique, but I’ve got my pom-poms out, because you can totally do it.
Let’s get crackin’. Geek to Live: Encrypt your web browsing session (with an SSH SOCKS proxy) - Lifehacker
