I’m a programmer. From my purist point of view, security exists to add layers of\u00a0 complexity and to slow things down.<\/p>\n
I’m not a Luddite, I appreciate the need for all sorts of security devices because it is time honored knowledge that people generally suck.<\/p>\n
But that doesn’t mean that the rest of us (in the I’m-a-better-driver-than-average sense) have to tolerate the limits and impositions imposed upon us by those trying to make everything more secure.<\/p>\n
Today’s subject is network firewalls. Specifically corporate network firewalls. The kind that don’t let you do anything fun.<\/p>\n
I thought that it might be possible to use an HTTP proxy to connect to TCP end points together.<\/p>\n
I wasn’t sure if it would work, so I gave it a try.<\/p>\n
The resulting effort, does in fact work, and is called sshh.<\/p>\n
You can download it here.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/deadpelican.com\/sshh_release_I_20090814.tar.gz<\/a><\/p>\n Or the prebuilt cygwin windows binaries…<\/p>\n