powered by sleep

If you are using SSH to tunnel your web traffic, to keep your information private, you might be vulnerable to a DNS man-in-the-middle attack.  If your DNS requests aren’t tunneled, the operator of the hostile (or locked down) network can still see where you are navigating to on the web when your client makes DNS requests to resolve hostnames to IP addresses.
For these reasons (and for many others), it’s a good idea to tunnel DNS through your SSH tunnel too.  This can be done very easily in Firefox.

In the Firefox URL address bar, enter “about:config“.
In the Filter text field, enter “network.proxy.socks_remote_dns“.
Double-click “network.proxy.socks_remote_dns” to set the value to true.

Today I got wind of a new beta from Google.  Google search over SSL.  Now you can have an end to end search that is encrypted between your computer and our friends over at Google.  This will protect your search terms and results from third parties such as your ISP, or company network admins who may be monitoring your search terms.   Stop over at https://www.google.com and give it a try.  Note:  HTTPS is for secure.