On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 07:55:47AM -0800, Bryan Brake wrote:
> Joachim Schipper wrote:
> >On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:03:21PM -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote:
> >>Dear folks,
> >>
> >>i live in brazil, and it is a common practice for local
> >>corporation/institutions to monitor our phone calls, internet access
> >>and personal email. I would like to be able to access Internet by
> >>means of a proxy. My initial ideia is to get some peer (personnel)
> >>outside brazil that would allow me to connect through it.
> >>
> I wanted to be able to access the web and surf
> without the Nazi admin checking the firewall logs
> to see what I am doing.
>
> I setup my OpenBSD machine at home with Privoxy
> (in packages section) and using Putty to forward
> my traffic over SSH. Privoxy was very easy to
> setup and I am running it with the defaults.
>
> Here is the link I used to setup my local machine
> to use my proxy...
>
>
>
> http://www.zunta.org/blog/archives/2005/08/29/sshirking_work/
There is no guarantee, though, that the nazi admin will be particularly
well-inclined towards ssh... ;-)
Some attacks are still possible, though; notably, even if we presume the
other end and all neighbouring networks are trustworthy, and the
firewall admin has no capabilities beyond his own network, he can still
notice *that* you are doing something, and traffic analysis will give
quite a bit of a hint.
Not much there's to be done about that, but still - something to think
about.
Joachim
