from MacApper

So there you are in your cubicle at work utilizing your employer’s expensive internet connection for everything except something that can actually justify your pay check. This is a good enough time to do some power ebaying, youtubing, or hell even some chatty chat with that sexy new bit on the side. It doesn’t get any better than this right? To actually get paid to surf the internet whilst firing off a reply to the occasional email, to keep up the guise of you actually being alert and attentive to the various happenings at work. Imagine if your poor sap of a boss actually knew what you were up to!

Guess what, chances are he does. Or is about to.

There’s always some little weasel of a sys-admin just waiting to inform “the man” of just how much time you, his star employee, is actually NOT spending justifying that paycheck. Just imagine when the schmuck presents ream after ream of printed logs of your questionable online antics. IRC, MSN Messenger, AOL Messenger, YouTube, pr0n, and the list goes on. You get the picture. Now before you fire up Monster.com on your soon to be former employer’s dime, there is thankfully an answer.

SSH Tunneling
The concept is simple. All your activities are sent through an encrypted SSH tunnel to some remote server which in turn does all the dirty work (so to speak). The beauty of course is that all that nuisance of a sys admin can ever see is a bunch of encrypted traffic.

Now here’s what you need:

* openSSH client. (thankfully OS X has this built in!)
* access to an openSSH server