Once upon a time the thought of a firewalled, cordoned, and censored web was enough to send chills up the spine of any internet user. As the years have passed, however, our sentiment has softened. A ...

Once upon a time, I was doing on-site support for a hardware install at a hotel a few years ago. The remote tech’s remote desktop software didn’t want to play with my Linux laptop, so he couldn’t get ...

Shawn shows us how to set up a quick SSH tunnel for accessing a computer behind a remote firewall. He demonstrates this from his hotel room 400 miles away from his home network!

Using ssh tunnelling I can protect services which are not normally protected and/or encrypted against unauthorized access. In this example I show how I set up a secure connection to my IRC proxy, but ...

Stuck SSH session? Press Enter, type ~. to close frozen SSH instantly. Learn all SSH escape sequences most users never ...