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I've seen so many of these VPN-for-rent services that this is becoming an obligatory reply. But I don't see anyone saying "ssh" on the comments yet, so: Here'
by maqr 15y ago
I've seen so many of these VPN-for-rent services that this is becoming an obligatory reply. But I don't see anyone saying "ssh" on the comments yet, so:
Here's how to tunnel on OSX via ssh:
ssh -fnNMD 8080 -S ~/.tmp-ssh-socket you@server.you.own && sudo networksetup -setsocksfirewallproxy Airport localhost 8080
Then when you're done:
ssh -S ~/.tmp-ssh-socket -O exit localhost && sudo networksetup -setsocksfirewallproxystate Airport off
That will set your ssh server as the system-wide socks proxy.
Granted I don't have the time to wrap a pretty UI around it, but those commands work, and I trust my own servers more than any service.
If anyone does have time to wrap a pretty UI around it... OpenCloak could exist mere hours after the commercial project went into beta :)
- kelnos 15y agoExcept it wouldn't be OpenCloak... it'd be OpenCloakForPeopleWhoHaveShellAccountsOnServersSomewhere, which is much less useful to your average -- but security-conscious -- user.
- semanticist 15y agoYou could feed it your Amazon authentication details and let it bring up an EC2 instance automatically. That would make it functionally equivalent to Cloak.
- kelnos 15y agoDon't you need to specifically sign up for AWS as well for that?
- urbanjunkie 15y agoSidestep is a pretty-ish (OS X only) UI for SSH tunnelling - it can be set to auto-activate whenever it detects you're on an unsecured wifi network - like your local coffee shop. http://chetansurpur.com/projects/sidestep/ http://chetansurpur.com/projects/sidestep/