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

[Jonathan Lassoff]

Excerpts from Sai Emrys's message of Wed Jan 06 16:17:08 -0800 2010:
> 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.

DNS is UDP, which as Seth metioned, SOCKS5 supports. So possibly, these
requests get tunneled as well.

A packet capture on your external interface will show you for sure
what's up.

--j