DISQUS

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 ;)