[david_shaw]

To anyone who desires this level of security but doesn't want to have to go through the trouble of a VPN, using SSH tunnels works just as effectively.

Assuming you have access to a remote Linux/BSD box, you can (from Linux) `ssh -D 1025 remote.host.address` then proxy your browser's SOCKS proxy to localhost:1025.

On Windows, using PuTTY, one can simply go into the Tunnel menu, hit the "Dynamic" radio button, type in 1025 and click "add" to achieve the same effect.

[tpahax0r]

SideStep does all of this for you. You can forgo the whole OpenVPN section (Steps 12 through 22) if you just want to use SideStep.