I actually did not believe it’s this simple. Creating the tunnel is as easy as typing: ssh -D 1080 user@remote_host Which can be improved with ssh -fND 1080 user@remote_host See the man page on the details of the extra options. This will open up port 1080 on your local machine, providing a SOCKS proxy (SOCKS5 … Continue reading Tunnel your browser connections (i.e. your web traffic) through an SSH tunnel.