5 second VPN
Ian Wienand writes:
I was recently on a wireless network I trust even less than I usually trust wireless networks, so was looking for a way to ensure a little more security. I’ve previously setup a PPTP tunnel, but that server is on a boat heading to San Francisco so that was not an option. I have a linode with a generous bandwidth limit, so my first thought was to set that up and route through it with OpenVPN. It started getting a bit complicated and didn’t work out-of-the-box with NetworkManager so I gave up.
Then I found that ssh has a really nifty -D option to implement a SOCKS5 proxy.
Tags: linux vpn, secure browsing, ssh tunneling