Thursday, December 11th, 2008
If you have access to SSH on a remote server (dedicated server, vps or shell account), you can browse the internet over the IP address hiding your original IP address.
This can be useful for many scenarios like -
IP based authentication over dynamic IP:
In many cases for security reasons we use restrict access only to some selected IP addresses. For example, admin area of a blog, forum, billing system or help desk can be protected with IP based authentication.
But what if you are on dynamic IP? You can allow your users (or yourself) first to ssh to a server ...
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