[ale] best terminal-based browsers?

[John Wells]

True.  But, I'm fairly confident I'm the only one who can get into my
machine, as I've locked it down fairly well and I own root.

I'm not really that concerned about it...but my company does capture info
about where we surf and I just don't want to encourage attention ;-).

John

> On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Jason Day wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:06:35AM -0500, John Wells wrote:
>> > For web pages my company doesn't need to know I surf
>> (computerjobs.com, etc.) I typically ssh to my home machine and surf
>> with lynx or mozilla over X.  Mozilla is extremely slow on the BS
>> upstream, and lynx is sometimes very difficult to use.
>>
>> For a completely different approach, you could use ssh's dynamic port
>> forwarding.  I used ssh for years before I realized you could do this.
>> When you ssh to your box, give ssh the -D option and specify a port,
>> e.g.:
>>   ssh -D 1080 my.box.com
>>
>> This will turn your ssh session into a SOCKS v4 server.  Then, just
>> tell your web browser to use SOCKS v4 on localhost (and specify the
>> port if you don't use 1080).  Then you could surf from your work box
>> with anonymity.
>
> I _like_ the tip, but shouldn't you also ensure removal of any cache
> files/bookmarks/cookies from the work machine also? Especially since the
>  effort is being made to conceal the activity?
>
>
>>
>> HTH,
>> Jason
>>
>> P.S.
>> This all assumes OpenSSH.  I haven't used commercial ssh in a while,
>> so I don't know if it has this feature or not.
>>
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