Comments on: A Recipe to avoid having your Twitter, Facebook, CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet account stolen at an Airport or Conference

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 19:16:12 +0000

@Brendan Falkowski – that’s right, once the SSH connection is closed, it’s closed at both ends. Talk soon!

Just remember to shut down the EC2 instance if you’re renting it by the hour.

By: Brendan Falkowski

Brendan Falkowski — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 02:55:18 +0000

There isn’t anything residual to reset on the server after exiting the connection via Terminal right? Just unset the proxy in Firefox.

Looking forward to meeting you in a few days.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 01:09:15 +0000

@Ken – Thanks, same goes for Twitter, you can enable it if you know where (and know that it is required for safe browsing in public places). Oh and thanks for the free wifi at SYD airport, nice one Tomizone!

@Shaun – Thanks for adding the Windows tip, much appreciated.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 02:45:49 +0000

Thanks for the great tip. I know you don’t care about windows, but in case someone else that is reading this does, I have confirmed that using putty you can do this. Just setup your ssh connection in Putty, then go to the Connections > SSH > Tunnels section and add a Dynmaic port forward. You’ll need to put 9999 (or whatever) in the Source Port field.

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:17:40 +0000

Facebook do offer https recently, but is not turn on by default yet.
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=486790652130