My use for software like this (I use shellinabox [1] on my server) is being able to access a secure Unix commandline from absolutely any Internet-connected mach

My use for software like this (I use shellinabox [1] on my server) is being able to access a secure Unix commandline from absolutely any Internet-connected machine in the world. Most recently, I was able to rebook an upcoming flight in Sabre (a travel agent's reservation terminal) from an internet kiosk in the Hong Kong subway. It ran a very weird kiosk-mode browser based at least in part on IE 6.0, but I was still able to securely [2] open a terminal session on my server. [1] http://code.google.com/p/shellinabox/ http://code.google.com/p/shellinabox/ [2] I have an SSL certificate for my shellinabox vhost, which protects both the Javascript client code and the terminal communications; while I do have to trust that the web browser is properly validating the SSL certificate, it's pretty much the most secure solution possible that doesn't involve carrying around my own hardware.