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[Tessian]

I don't take it any of you by chance have a subscription to / read the 2600 Hacker Quarterly magazine? If so there should be an article written by yours truly in the next issue

[SineSwiper]

Pfft...like you know anything about hacking.

[Julius Seeker]

Sorry Tess, hacker = the polite title for nerdy prima donnas. You know it's true =)

[Zeus]

Tess, hack the Shrine and ban Sine just to prove a point

[Tessian]

Never claimed to be a hacker... I do Information Security for a living... so I have to understand how they do things.

My article is on SSH Tunneling as a method to secure your internet browsing (while either at Starbucks or so your boss can't see it)

[SineSwiper]

Yeah, either that or VPN tunneling. Both use encryption.

[Tessian]

Yeah, either that or VPN tunneling. Both use encryption.

How many people do you know that have (let alone know how to use) the ability to VPN into their home? More and more routers are coming with some sort of VPN ability... but you have to be tech savvy and know wtf it is and want to use it for it to be worth anything.

[SineSwiper]

Well, what I mean is that if I'm on a wireless connection from my work laptop, I can just connect to my work's VPN, and I've got a completely secured wireless connection.

[Tessian]

Well, what I mean is that if I'm on a wireless connection from my work laptop, I can just connect to my work's VPN, and I've got a completely secured wireless connection.

Well yeah, of course... but this is so you can protect yourself FROM work in most cases. I'm always getting people in trouble for trying to proxy around our security... so when I found this way was almost foolproof I wasn't happy.

I more learned about it and got pissed off that Websense is so stupid with ports... it doesn't notice that "Hey, that guy's doing SSH on port 443" it just assumes since it's on 443 it's HTTPS... My IDS system detects it to a degree (it notices SSH is being done on a "high port") but only briefly.

[Tessian]

Well the next issue finally arrived in my mailbox and sure enough my article is in there-- last fucking article of the issue but still, a full page.

Looks pretty nice, even though it was written over half a year ago. I'll try to photocopy it at work tomorrow to post.

[Lox]

So where is it??? I'll actually read it if you can scan it.

[Tessian]

I have it... but where the heck can I upload it to share? It's in PDF. I haven't had a hosted website in years.

EDIT-- Nevermind: Here it is! Thank you google. Let me know what you think.

http://tessian.googlepages.com/2600-Kev ... nter07.pdf