I'm on a mac. I want to set a single configuration option somewhere to enable/disable using SSH tunneling for a bunch of different protocols/applications. Is this possible? How? [more inside]
posted by Alterscape on Sep 8, 2008 - 9 answers

Why are Firefox and Transmission ignoring my proxy settings? OS X 10.5.4 [more inside]
posted by tylermoody on Aug 8, 2008 - 5 answers

How can I get MSN Messenger (or Windows Live Messenger, I guess it's called now) to show other peoples' webcams when I'm surfing behind an SSH tunnel proxy? [more inside]
posted by antifuse on Jan 15, 2008 - 2 answers

I'm living in a Chinese university dorm. I was running Web traffic through an SSH tunnel, and about 10 minutes into reading about China's Internet censorship (which naturally includes lots of blocked terms as examples, like "falun gong" and "Tibet"), the service staff in this building knocked on my door. [more inside]
posted by jbb7 on Aug 10, 2006 - 17 answers