Socks Proxy via SSH Tunneling
Probably, everyone and their dog knows how to set up a ssh tunnel for safe webbrowsing.
Well, I didn't know, so I'm writing how to do it.
I have a SSH account on a webserver somewhere (I'm not telling). It's really simple, log in to your account with a local port that forwards all traffic to your ssh connection. Do you know how to do it? no? Well..
Windows
start putty.exe -D 1080 -ssh servername -l username -pw password
Linux
ssh username@servername -D 1080
If you don't have putty, shame on you. Download it here
Now, open your webbrowser of choice, and edit the proxy information:
Address: 127.0.0.1 (thats your own computer)
Port: 1080
Proxy Type: SOCKSv5
And that should do it.
Now, here's an extra tip for all of you who use Firefox. We can do all of our DNS Lookups using our proxy (Effectively overriding any dns webfilter your company may use).
Open about:config and look for network.proxy.socks_remote_dns value and change it to true. This only works with SOCKSv5.
Enjoy 