Tired of your boss snooping on or blocking your web browsing?

This article explains how to setup and use a proxy to route all your
web surfing at work (or anywhere) through an encrypted tunnel to the
connection at your house. Uses OpenSSH and Privoxy. Leaves no trace of
the sites you visit and gets around any site blocking that may be setup.

Cool article.  Its got me wondering if you can have the same level
of privacy from an anonymous web proxy such as anonymizer.  I
don't see why not. 

As I recall from my old firewall DNS days, the traffic looked like that
code in the Matrix because there was so much of it going through our
server.  At the time, I was one of the “LAN Nazi's.”  We were
“guarding all the doors and hold all the keys.”  We monitored (and
stored all the traffic).  We'd see the occasional Titty sites but
typically we didn't crack down unless there was extreme abuse of the
security policy.  Usually, it was some guy working at the dead of
midnight that thought he could surf child porn safely… “trouble” is
not the word for what these guys were asking for.  In accordance
with the Privacy Act of 1987, we weren't allowed to actively look for
that type of stuff (as it would be in admissable in a court – due to
infringement privacy.. of course if it was terrorist act.. all bet are
off, IAW Patriot Act).  If we found such material while
“monitoring” the system, that was a different story.

Though I don't support violating security policies, I do support
privacy of employees.  I believe another way to protect ones
privacy might be to surf from an anonymizer. 

Here are some free ones:

More here –> http://anoniem-surfen.eigenstart.nl/
Check out Effs Tor –> http://tor.eff.org/

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