SSH on the Command Line -- 3: Using SSH to Browse the Web Safely

If you’re connected to the Net over Wi-Fi at an airport, a shopping mall, or any other public place, *be careful*. There is a neverending stream of creeps, wannabe “hackers“, and other morons who will happily monitor your traffic, look at confidential stuff you’re doing, steal passwords, and inject horrible things into your datastream until your computer explodes. How can you protect yourself? Browse through a SSH proxy that *you* control! This video builds on the first two in the SSH series, and shows you how to browse through a SSH tunnel using SSH forwarding/binding. Following these steps requires: 1. An existing SSH server, accessible from the Internet. ( ) 2. Some basic Linux/Unix command-line knowledge. ( ) Enjoy!