[Noisebridge-discuss] How do you secure your public wifi usage?
Seth David Schoen
schoen at loyalty.org
Wed Jan 6 23:36:40 UTC 2010
Sai Emrys writes:
> Is there an advantage that -w gives that -D does not? I confess ignorance here.
I've never used -w, but if it implements TUN, it should be possible to
use it with _any_ kind of IP packet (not just TCP and UDP, which
SOCKS5 supports). Thus, you could presumably do ping and traceroute
(which rely on ICMP) and other non-TCP/UDP protocols like SCTP. That
would definitely not be possible with the SOCKS proxy created by -D.
If you're using TCP or UDP over TUN, you should also be able to see
the individual packets, whereas SOCKS5 will just show you their
payloads.
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