[clue-tech] Re: proxy server

[Rich Whitaker]

Here is something you might want to look at.
http://tinyproxy.sourceforge.net/

Whenever I am browsing questionable web sites (for security purposes only of
course) the security guys come knocking.  So I set up Tiny on my home
server, and gave it an externally accessible ip address (it cost me a little
more money).  And then I just set up my browser to proxy through my home
server.  Additional benefits noticed almost immediately:  A greatly reduced
amount of SPAM.  I assume the spammers are harvesting the Proxy email
address rather than my own.  That's just an assumption that I have never
looked into at all.

Hope that helps.

- Rich

Rich Whitaker
Senior Product Manager
Samsung SDSA
See http://www.samsungcontact.com
  

-----Original Message-----
From: clue-tech-bounces at cluedenver.org
[mailto:clue-tech-bounces at cluedenver.org] On Behalf Of Greg Knaddison
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 10:55 AM
To: CLUE tech
Subject: [clue-tech] Re: proxy server

On 10/31/05, Jason S. Friedman <jason at powerpull.net> wrote:
> I have a machine at home that I can reach from my machine at work 
> (both run Linux).
>
> I'd like to surf the web, using my machine at home as a proxy, such 
> that my activity would not be reviewable.  In other words, someone at 
> the office reviewing my network usage would only see repeated requests 
> to my home machine.
>

There are also text mode browsers (e.g. links and emacs) which you could use
via ssh to your home machine.  Never needed it personally, but in theory it
would work.

Greg
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