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SSH Tunnel for Web Browsing Freedom and More Ever been using the Internet somewhere where theres a firewall or web filter in place keeping you from browsing your favorite sites?  If you have a secure shell (ssh) server setup at home (or at a hosting site) you can easily use it to proxy all of your web browsing activity, bypassing most types of obstacles that would likely be in your way. For the purposes of this post, lets assume that youre running an out-of-the-box installation of OpenSSH server on a linux system, with the configuration files located in the /etc/ssh directory.  The most useful parameter in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file is the "Port" setting.  By default, its set to 22, which is the standard port for ssh.  In most situations where your web browsing traffic is being filtered, port 22 is likely being blocked as well, so that doesnt help us too much.  You can change the line to Port 443 in order to have the ssh server listen on a port that is l...