Use a SSH tunnel as a (Mac) system-wide SOCKS proxy to secure your traffic or bypass firewalls.
- October 1st, 2011
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Alright, so before you push on through this post lets cover some basic scenarios where-by this might be useful:
- You’re on an insecure network and want to prevent your traffic being snooped on.
All your traffic will be sent over SSH so it’ll all be encrypted to the point that it leaves your tunnel end. - You want to get local access to a work or home network that’s behind a firewall.
By tunnelling all your traffic through a host internal to that network requests will appear to come from it’s local address within that network, allowing you to access things you usually wouldn’t be able to remotely as if you were internal to the network.
Amusingly this was actually the best explanatory image on the subject of SSH tunnelling I could find, courtesy of an Engadget post here.
