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chetan51 / sidestep

A Mac OS X application that automatically secures your Internet connection in unprotected wireless networks through SSH tunneling.
http://chetansurpur.com/projects/sidestep
MIT License
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always connect tunnel #56

Open naggie opened 11 years ago

naggie commented 11 years ago

I use sidestep as a tunnel a bit like a VPN. Not necessarily because it's secure, but because it enables the bypass of firewalls and access to my home network.

As such, it would be good to have a feature to automatically connect, regardless of wether the network is 'secure' or not.

dgomes commented 11 years ago

Callan,

You do! You can find "Connect" in the menu.

= Diogo Gomes http://about.me/dgomes

On 22/12/2012, at 15:03, Callan Bryant notifications@github.com wrote:

I use sidestep as a tunnel a bit like a VPN. Not necessarily because it's secure, but because it enables the bypass of firewalls and access to my home network.

As such, it would be good to have a feature to automatically connect, regardless of wether the network is 'secure' or not.

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naggie commented 11 years ago

indeed, which I what I use.

What I meant was for it to automatically connect with the wifi network like when connecting to an unsecured network.

Thanks for writing the software by the way, it's great!

eordano commented 11 years ago

+1; automatically connect even though the connection uses WPA is a feature I would use

naggie commented 11 years ago

An example use case would be for when I'm in an internet cafe that openly shares its password, defeating the point of encryption.

I also use this to access my VPN behind a firewall where IPsec or OpenVPN won't work.

franciscolourenco commented 11 years ago

I came here to suggest this feature as well. An "always connected" option.

franciscolourenco commented 9 years ago

With the ability to white list the few secure networks where you don't need sidestep.