On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Chris Frey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cdfrey@foursquare.net">cdfrey@foursquare.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:01:43AM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:<br>
> This still requires a server that you fully administer.<br>
<br>
</div>On the topic of easy VPN software, some folks might want to give<br>
sshuttle a try. Haven't tried it yet myself, but the concept<br>
looks great.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle" target="_blank">http://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle</a><br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>Now that I have tried it ...<br><br>Simply brilliant ...<br><br>It works as advertized: all traffic is encrypted and tunneled through a server<br>
you have access to via ssh.<br><br>You only need root on your client (say laptop).<br><br>Do a --help to show all the options. <br><br>Use -v to make it less verbose after it works.<br><br>This solves it for the Linux laptop side ...<br>
<br>On Android, there is the ASE (Android Scripting Environment) which includes <br>Python, but there is no root unless you "root" the device.<br><br>The author used to live in Waterloo by the way. I ran into him once at an event <br>
at the Accelerator Centre.<br>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br><a href="http://2bits.com">http://2bits.com</a><br>Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.<br>
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger W.Dijkstra<br>Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- Leonardo da Vinci<br>