Are you browsing and checking emails or other websites which has no SSL connections unlike banking websites which secures you and make sure every transactions are secured via SSL. (https://somebank.com). Any data that is not encrypted is exposed can be easily sniffed through the LAN network.Doesn’t this bothers you if you are connecting from some WIFI spots from somewhere?
Well this is when Squid comes in. You just need to install squid on a remote server and get it up and running.The server can be your home pc which runs linux or you have remote server will be great.I have installed it on my debian 4.0 , for other distros please refer to the packages and look for squid.
In your Debian type this :
sudo apt-get install squid
And.. Thats about it you are done.Now by default, if you didn’t touch the configurations files that comes along with squid you just need to change the way your browser connect to the internet.For example:
In Firefox:
Edit > Preference > Advanced > Network > Settings
Choose the option saying Manual Configuration and and the http proxy part into “localhost” and port “3128″.And choose “use this proxy server for all protocols”.Next you have create a tunnel to your remote squid server:
ssh -L squidport:ipordomainname:squidport username@ipordomainname
ssh -L 3128:linuxbay.org:3128 gravin@linuxbay.org
Remember that you must be always connected to the remote squid server via ssh tunneling.If you are not, you can’t keep browsing using squid.Now, go to www.whatismyip.com and you will see that your ip is different.This is because you are using a ssh tunneling via squid server into the internet rather than direct connection to the internet. How awesome is that. 