As a rule, whenever I'm online I'm logged into my server back in the States. I'm also usually wireless, which we all know is beyond insecure -- I've found it
especially useful to tunnel firefox over SSH. I try my best to tunnel stuff over SSH back, and if you want to also, this is how.
Setup the SSH/SOCKS tunnel
I'm on Linux, so this is pretty darn easy.
ssh user@domain.com -D 1080
If the SSH daemon runs on a different port, you'd do something like this:
ssh -oPort=1234 user@damon.com -D 1080
Remember ports below 1024 are reserved, and you would need root access. Now it is time to configure the different programs to use the newly created tunnel.
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Setting up Gnome (optional)
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Tunneling Pidgen
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Tunneling XChat
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Tunneling Firefox
Note: I'm going to list two examples, one is with FoxyProxy and the other is with the ordinary proxy settings.
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FoxyProxy
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Normal Proxy
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Make sure the other fields or empty, or you won't connect.
So, there you have it. There are quite a few unix shell providers out there, I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to spot a link for one. I've seen
QuadSpeedInternet having SSH access for $3/month, and
JVDS or
Lonestar offering possible free shells. Alternatively, you could just get a
really inexpensive VPS at
VPSLink ($6-$8/month, but they often have 25% off discounts).