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can someone please explain to me exactly how running your traffic through a local proxy serves to protect it? I'm very confused.
by romnempire 15y ago
can someone please explain to me exactly how running your traffic through a local proxy serves to protect it? I'm very confused.
- rasengan 15y agohi romnempire, This is not exactly a pure local proxy as per one might imagine, but rather, a local proxy that tunnels through your ssh connection. In other words, an "ssh tunnel"
- romnempire 15y agoi don't understand how that makes things secure. You are connecting to your own endsystem using ssh, and then your endsystem, on the server side, must send out an http/bittorrent/whatever packet to the content distributor over the same insecure channel your original application would have had to, right?
- kenmazy 15y agothe phrasing is vague, but all it is describing is tunneling http/etc through ssh. Ostensibly, you have some remote server whose internet connection is more "secure" than your home connection. I for one do not own any servers in Switzerland...