[colug-432] WOW is hijacking my Google searches, but how?

[Bill Baker]

I set up something exactly like this, except I use port 443 and log in
using a public key.  My current employer doesn't seem to care about
which websites we visit (as long as they aren't inappropriate), but my
last employer blocked certain websites, like YouTube.  I worked there
before I set up my SSH box so I wasn't able to test and see if I would
have been able to bypass their proxy and visit sites they didn't want me
to.  In theory, I know it should work, but I still wonder.

On 03/26/2013 07:25 PM, Rick Hornsby wrote:
> If you have an offsite ssh server, you can try tunneling your HTTP
> traffic (so WOW can't see it) and try to make Firefox behave the same
> way (Urls etc).  
>
> ssh -D1080 your-remote-host
>
> Tell FF to use a SOCKS5 proxy, localhost port 1080.
>
> I used this technique years ago to thwart a jerk of a BOFH sysadmin
> who wasn't very
> bright. http://blog.flyovercountry.org/2006/10/no-more-spying