[ale] best terminal-based browsers?

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

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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