This article explains how to setup and use a proxy to route all your web surfing at work (or anywhere) through an encrypted tunnel to the connection at your house. Uses OpenSSH and Privoxy. Leaves no trace of the sites you visit and gets around any site blocking that may be setup.

Cool article.  Its got me wondering if you can have the same level of privacy from an anonymous web proxy such as anonymizer.  I don't see why not. 

As I recall from my old firewall DNS days, the traffic looked like that code in the Matrix because there was so much of it going through our server.  At the time, I was one of the "LAN Nazi's."  We were "guarding all the doors and hold all the keys."  We monitored (and stored all the traffic).  We'd see the occasional Titty sites but typically we didn't crack down unless there was extreme abuse of the security policy.  Usually, it was some guy working at the dead of midnight that thought he could surf child porn safely... "trouble" is not the word for what these guys were asking for.  In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1987, we weren't allowed to actively look for that type of stuff (as it would be in admissable in a court - due to infringement privacy.. of course if it was terrorist act.. all bet are off, IAW Patriot Act).  If we found such material while "monitoring" the system, that was a different story.

Though I don't support violating security policies, I do support privacy of employees.  I believe another way to protect ones privacy might be to surf from an anonymizer. 

Here are some free ones:

More here --> http://anoniem-surfen.eigenstart.nl/
Check out Effs Tor --> http://tor.eff.org/

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