Proxy Bypass

I guess it's usual for every institution to have a central firewall/proxy that all internal traffic must go through to reach the outside world. I am by no means paranoid about security/privacy but it got me thinking.

... And once again, SSH to the rescue! It almost feels like the possibilites of a SSH tunnel with Local port forwarding are limitless :D

I just picked up a public German proxy from this page:

http://www.publicproxyservers.com/index.html

And then setup a SSH connection to forward local port 8080 to proxy:port. Then for the browser I just set localhost:8080 as the proxy.

Well, the speed is a little short of astounding but it's very much usable :D Now all that the central firewall/proxy should be seeing is a bunch of encrypted traffic.