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How to guard yourself and your Mac from Firesheep and Wi-Fi snooping

by TJ Luoma (Oct 26th, 2010)

The prevalence of free/cheap and open Wi-Fi networks in coffee shops, airports, offices and hotels is a great boon to the traveling Mac or iPad user; it makes connectivity and remote work much easier than it used to be. Unfortunately, since most of those networks don't employ WEP or WPA passwords to ...

Meerkat 1.5 automatically reconnects your SSH Tunnels

by TJ Luoma (Feb 18th, 2010)

Meerkat turns SSH tunnels -- a fairly obscure and complicated concept -- into a feature anyone should be able to use, and does so in a very Mac-like way. I've known about SSH tunnels for a long time, but I've never been able to get them working. The concept is simple enough: a SSH connection is ...

Meerkat 1.2, 100% more AppleScript support

by Brett Terpstra (May 27th, 2009)

If you work from non-secure networks (coffeehouses, airports, hotels, etc.), or if you've ever wanted to bypass a firewall (YouTube or TUAW blocked at work?) you may be familiar with SSH tunneling. It's come up more than once here on TUAW. It allows you to conduct your Internet business through a ...

Meerkat: simplified SSH tunneling

by Brett Terpstra (Jun 2nd, 2008)

I would wager that most of the people who know they need an SSH tunnel also know the Terminal commands to make it happen. But if those people happen to be Mac users, it's quite likely they wouldn't be averse to having menu bar access, Growl integration, Bonjour capability and a nice GUI to handle ...

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