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

[Sai Emrys]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org> wrote:
> 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.

FWIW, when running Proxifier in DNS-catcher mode, I have noticed that
pings *do* use the proxifier psuedo-ip (0.0.0.foo). I presumed this
meant that they were in fact getting proxied, since that'd be the only
way to resolve that route.

But maybe I was missing something.

- Sai