After looking at what firesheep can do, I would like to set up all my web traffic from my laptop to go through my home computer. I already have hamachi installed on all of my computers. Do yall have a recommendation on the best proxy server and may a quick start guide. I admit I am a noob at this kind of thing.

2/13/2011 12:31:37 PM

I think I saw someone on here using that no support linux host as a proxy. Which would be perfect because you wouldn't be dependent upon your home link to handle the business.

2/13/2011 1:51:07 PM

ssh tunneling would probably be an easier option

2/13/2011 8:51:36 PM

^^That's what I do. Very cheap and acceptably fast.

2/14/2011 11:18:03 AM

Can you give more info on this no support linux host?

2/14/2011 11:24:19 AM

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2/14/2011 1:54:53 PM

^perhaps a tutorial?

2/14/2011 2:11:24 PM

In my case, the host required no configuration, it was already good to go.

For the client side, I use Bitvise Tunnelier to connect to SSH to the server, and have it run a SOCKS5 proxy on a local port 1080 (or whatever you want).




I use a FF plugin called MM5 Proxy switcher to go from tunnel to non-tunnel. The MM5 profile just looks like this:

[Default
  socks=127.0.0.1:1080
]

2/14/2011 3:16:23 PM

^ Thank you for the advice. I have a tunnel set up and it works great for https site. Unfortunately it will not load http sites. Any ideas on what I managed to screw up?

2/14/2011 5:09:44 PM

^ nevermind. Im dumb, it was just a wrong setting in the firefox proxy. So I do plan to continue to use no support linux but just for my knowledge. What do yall suggest for a home windows shh proxy?

2/14/2011 5:18:46 PM

No need for one at home unless you don't trust your ISP, but the same thing can be used anywhere.

2/14/2011 6:18:35 PM

I was trying to ask what ssh proxy server could I run at home if for some reason I didnt want to pay for hosting. For one dollar a month Im not going to complain. I just want to know for for my own information but thanks for the tip about the hosting. Its working out pretty well.

2/14/2011 6:58:32 PM

you just run a ssh daemon, that's it

there isn't a native windows one as far as i'm aware, but you can get it with cygwin

easiest thing to do would be to set up a small little linux VM or something

2/14/2011 7:45:12 PM

There is a package called OpenSSH for Windows. It's not cygwin-dependent, but I believe it may use cygwin internally. It works well, I've used it in several places, but it can be a tad daunting to confgure if you're you're not fairly tech-savvy.

A potentially simpler (and always-on) approach would be to get a router that runs DD-WRT, and open up SSH w/ TCP forwarding on it. Then you just hit the home gateway the same way you would the linux host.

I agree that using a Linux VM is also a good alternative, but you would have to have your PC on anytime you wanted that tunnel.

Windows XP (possibly other flavors) Pro can act as a VPN gateway, as well as the above DD-WRT flashed router. I think it uses something simple like L2TP, which any Windows box knows how to connect to. That's a bit more work, but it eliminates the need for extra software on the endpoint. I've done that using both Windows and a router for the gateway and it works quite well.

There's far more than one way to hide your traffic, that's for sure.

2/15/2011 3:29:46 PM

Yea I tried CopSSH which i hear is basically the same as OpenSSh but I never got it configured correctly. I got it installed just couldnt connect. I have just started messing with setting up L2TP on my windows 7 machine. My next goal will be to hide on my android phone. Do use any method for that currently?

2/15/2011 3:55:15 PM

L2TP/PPTP VPN is going to be the simplest method there. As for using SSH, did you forward port 22 on your router and open the Windows firewall for it?

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2/15/2011 4:49:43 PM

http://lifehacker.com/#!5763170/how-to-secure-and-encrypt-your-web-browsing-on-public-networks-with-hamachi-and-privoxy

2/17/2011 3:54:13 PM

In order to link to something on a website, it must be hosted on a server at some IP address or registered domain name (which then resolves to an IP address); if you're lazy you can get an account at http://www.dyndns.com/ or http://www.no-ip.com/ and set up a local web server on your computer (like [link]http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html">XAMPP) and put The Word in the "htdocs" or "public_html" directory, or if you're not so lazy you can use an FTP program to send The Word to your website

but either way you'll still have the problem that Web browsers don't understand .exe files; for the most part they understand Internet media types like "text/html" and "text/plain" and "text/css" but pretty much any executable is "application/octet-stream" which is almost always just downloaded to be opened on your computer. Also unless "theword.exe" is all that was in the "TheWord" directory, your visitors won't even be able to use it unless they can download everything else, so you would need to zip up that whole directory, put that on your site, and tell people to download and unzip and that's a pain.


If you have a set of HTML files or a Web app that outputs them, you can put it up on your site, or if you like one of the many e-Bibles on the Internets, just link to that; Bible Gateway and Oremus are good resources.
If you have a PDF you can upload that and people with Adobe Reader or something similar can read it; a good one is https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.allsaintstupelo.com/Bible_NRSV.pdf

2/18/2011 4:19:10 PM

^^ haha yea I just saw that. Since I paid for a year of hosting I'm not too worried about it now(too bad they didnt post that a week ago)

2/18/2011 5:22:04 PM

It's just another way to do the same thing, and still requires your home pc to be on 24/7. The power savings alone will pay for your hosting account.

2/20/2011 8:27:38 AM

Yea but my home pc is on 24/7 for downloading movies. I do think its worth it for the increased speed though.

2/20/2011 9:26:33 AM