Safe(r) public WiFi browsing under Linux
Public WiFi access abounds. 'Free WiFi', 'Internet Hot-Spot' and other slogans offer tempting but 'naked' internet access. This tutorial will show you how to use two freely available open source applications - Mozilla Firefox ('Firefox') and OpenSSH ('SSH') - to make your wireless more secure so that you don't have to 'take your clothes off', so to speak, the next time you're at Starbuck's.
To perform this you'll need your home network to be either on a static IP or getting its IP dynamically using DHCP. If you have the latter (the most common situation) then you'll need to have a dynamic dns account - from someone such as www.no-ip.com - that is already setup and working. This tutorial does not show you how to set one up so you'll need to organise that first if your home network's IP is allocated dynamically by your ISP.
You'll also need to have the ssh daemon running on your home server and configured your firewall so that external SSH connections are allowed in to your home network.
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