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To: Swordmaker

Can’t you just set up a poorboy proxy server to avoid all this in OS X ?

To set it up, launch Firefox, go to “Preferences”, select the “Advanced” sidebar button, select the “Network” tab and click on the “Settings” option for Connections. From there, select “Manual Proxy Configuration”, then add “127.0.0.1” or “localhost” in the “SOCKS Host” field and enter your port 3333 in the port field, or whatever you told ssh to use to dynamically direct traffic over. Select the SOCKS v5 option, hit OK and browse away. Now every website you browse in Firefox is pulling the information, encrypted, from your home server, over SSH, then delivering it to your browser.

STAY SAFE !


31 posted on 08/19/2016 4:05:29 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Squantos
Can’t you just set up a poorboy proxy server to avoid all this in OS X ?

You could, but for those who might ever be caught by this, they'd never, ever have the smarts to do it. Those who know how to do it, would never need to do it, because they'd know that OS X will block it from happening anyway.

34 posted on 08/19/2016 9:12:28 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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