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Just a little function to add to your Apple OS's
.profile that automatically turns
on a socks proxy and tunnels all your traffic through the server of your choice.
It's a simple setup and <CTRL>+C kills the connection and shuts off the proxy.
This assumes that you have shell access to some server that you trust to run your traffic through.
I recommend setting up public key authentication for ease of use.
# warm feet
function socks() {
networksetup -setsocksfirewallproxy AirPort localhost 9999
ssh -ND 9999 -C username@domain
networksetup -setsocksfirewallproxystate AirPort off
}
One caveat: If you happen to close the window of your terminal without
hitting <CTRL>+C first, it will not disable the socks proxy.