Privacy/Security

Use HTTP Clients with SOCKS Proxies (or SSH Tunnels) on GNU/Linux

On GNU/Linux, it is easy to create SOCKS proxies using programs such as ssh or tor. However, many applications on GNU/Linux, such as LibreOffice and genymotion (up to the date on which this post is written), can be configured to directly use HTTP proxies (or web proxies), but not SOCKS proxies. In this post, we […]

Automatically Conceal Sender’s IP Address in Email Clients via SSH Tunneling

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Last updated on November 22, 2018 Desktop email clients, such as Thunderbird and Claws Mail, are preferred over their web counterparts by many professionals and power users due to their additional convenience and security. However, one big downside is that they often expose the sender’s IP address to the receivers, since many SMTP servers record

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