[Noisebridge-discuss] How do you secure your public wifi usage?

[Lee Sonko]

Thanks Lamont! I guess I just forgot some of the right terms to look for.
With your reminder, I set up an SSH tunnel and proxy to my webhost
(Dreamhost). I found some very straightforward instructions with pictures
here:
http://www.shanghaiwebhosting.com/web-hosting/use-your-web-hosting-ssh-sessi
on-as-a-tunnel-for-socks5-proxy-server

Hurray for privacy!
lee





> -----Original Message-----
> From: noisebridge-discuss-bounces at lists.noisebridge.net 
> [mailto:noisebridge-discuss-bounces at lists.noisebridge.net] On 
> Behalf Of Lamont Lucas
> Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 2:44 PM
> To: Lee Sonko
> Cc: 'NoiseBridge Discuss'
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] How do you secure your 
> public wifi usage?
> 
> Lee Sonko wrote:
> > When you log on to a wifi network that isn't your own, how do you 
> > protect your data?
> >
> > I often have to log on to non-SSL websites when I'm in the 
> wild. Every 
> > time I type a password on one of those networks, I get the willies. 
> > What do -you- do to protect yourself in such situations? 
> Maybe use a 
> > VPN to the cloud service? Single-use passwords? Get all 
> your logins to use OpenID? Go naked?
> > Stay home?
> 
> I have a FreeBSD box I colocate with BandWagon (our sysadmin 
> coop in the
> city) and when I'm in "the wild" or more likely a corporate 
> environment I don't trust or like, I use the socks5 tunnel 
> option to ssh (ssh -D
> 1234 my.remote.host) then use FoxyProxy with my firefox to 
> redirect all or some URLs through the newly opened and 
> encrypted proxy listening on localhost:1234.  That would work 
> with any box you can ssh into that you trust.  No software 
> (other than a relatively modern sshd) is needed on the server 
> side, and the foxyproxy plugin is optional (you could set 
> your proxy manually through the advanced/network preferences 
> menu if you don't want to mess with foxyproxy)
> 
> You can even instruct it to do DNS resolution on the other 
> side of the proxy, which hides your tracks a little better. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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