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SIGUSR2: SIGUSR2 > The Hacker Utility Belt: SSH

  • Janitha Karunaratne · 7 months ago
    Not to forget X Forwarding with the -X switch
  • JohnW · 7 months ago
    Just keep in mine that your SOCKS proxy may not intercept DNS queries, meaning sniffers on the local wifi still know what bank you use and other things. I recommend OpenVPN over TCP, or at the very least tunneling it over the SSH link, then you know that *all* apps will use the encrypted link, including DNS.
  • Ryan Rapini · 7 months ago
    Or perhaps not doing banking transactions over public wifi?

    the only way to be 100% sure is to not put yourself at risk in the first place.
  • Andrew Gwozdziewycz · 7 months ago
    This is the route I prefer. In general, the protection I'm looking for is protection against common session hijacking over HTTP, and POSTs over HTTP which might contain some information. When checking my email, it's over SSL, so I'm not concerned there. @johnw I will have a look at openVPN though, thanks.
  • Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy · 7 months ago
    You should mention true VPN using SSH with -w flag. Here is a link to an Ubuntu HOWTO
    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH_VPN
  • James Obaji · 6 months ago
    I use socks + ssh @ work all the time ;)