#SSHtunnels

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2026-02-24

@iuvi this seems like a good way to do it at first glance.

I'd still recommend to use @torproject / #TorBrowser through that #SSHtunnel for added #privacy.

Still #Russia fighting against #VPN useage whilst also being reliant on #CyberCrime & #CyberWarfare from russian soil makes it basically impossible to ban #SSH.

  • After all, this would also prevent their agents from communicating since #Gonets¹ and Gazprom Space Systems either don't have global coverage or are too slow to be used for any decent communication resembling realtime beyond narrowband communication.
2022-04-24

SSH Is Magic, But Tunnels are Even Better

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 into the switch he needed to configure, to make the install work. I asked if it had an SSH port he could use, were he were in the room with me. Of course it did, but that didn't do him much good. I ran a reverse SSH tunnel out to my public server, and pointed it at the switch on the local side. I convinced him to SSH to my server on the given port, and he was magically connected to his switch. He was literally in awe of that trick, and demanded to know how it could be done. SSH is magical, but tunneling traffic over SSH is straight-up wizardry. [Shawn Powers] agrees, and decided to help the rest of us understand the process.

There are two basic ways to launch a tunnel, the first being a local tunnel, that listens on the local machine, and forwards it to the remote machine. On the other hand, a remote tunnel will listen on the remote machine, and deliver the traffic to the local machine. The real fun begins when you have multiple SSH sessions, and connect one tunnel to another, to route something just where you need it. For extra credit, check out the hidden SSH command line, by pressing Enter, then tilde and the C key, each one at a time. Also for extra credit, check out the rest of [Shawn]'s Linux content, to learn some extra Linux goodness.

#internethacks #linuxhacks #linux #ssh #sshtunnels

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