mr-glass
08-03-2008, 04:02 AM
If your really worried about people snooping on you where you are AND you have a computer set up where you don't have to worry about such things, you can simply use a VPN. If you have even a little networking experience, it shouldn't be too hard.
Essentially, you make an encrypted connection between the two computers and forward all your traffic through the trusted connection. I use this to surf the web at hacker conventions without having the guy behind me reading my email. If your using wifi, its real easy to snoop what your looking at. I've seen it.
First, you'll need that encrypted connection. I use some fancy expensive stuff to connect to my office for this, but I have had great results using hamachi (www.hamachi.cc) in the past. Its real easy to use and creates a nice secure connection between the two points. Windows works great, there is a mac beta that I've used but i keep hearing complaints.
Next, you need to setup the computer at trusted location to be a proxy. There is a ton of different software options out there, but I use ccproxy because it is light and simple. You can probably get by leaving the settings as is (I did).
Finally, you need to set the programs you want to use encrypted traffic to use the proxy. Every program is different, but the proxy settings should be in the network or security settings.
Also, there are some people who use whats called a seedbox for their torrents these days. Essentially its a dedicated server for their bittorent traffic. I don't use it so I can't say much about it, but I know it works quite well. Probly will cost money though.
-MrGlass
Essentially, you make an encrypted connection between the two computers and forward all your traffic through the trusted connection. I use this to surf the web at hacker conventions without having the guy behind me reading my email. If your using wifi, its real easy to snoop what your looking at. I've seen it.
First, you'll need that encrypted connection. I use some fancy expensive stuff to connect to my office for this, but I have had great results using hamachi (www.hamachi.cc) in the past. Its real easy to use and creates a nice secure connection between the two points. Windows works great, there is a mac beta that I've used but i keep hearing complaints.
Next, you need to setup the computer at trusted location to be a proxy. There is a ton of different software options out there, but I use ccproxy because it is light and simple. You can probably get by leaving the settings as is (I did).
Finally, you need to set the programs you want to use encrypted traffic to use the proxy. Every program is different, but the proxy settings should be in the network or security settings.
Also, there are some people who use whats called a seedbox for their torrents these days. Essentially its a dedicated server for their bittorent traffic. I don't use it so I can't say much about it, but I know it works quite well. Probly will cost money though.
-MrGlass