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by iwejfweoifjweif 5055 days ago
Agreed, I'm also not sure why he didn't just use the SOCKS proxy in ssh as opposed to sshuttle. ssh -D8080 and then point your network config to localhost 8080 as the local proxy and everything is encrypted.
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I dont get that as well, really, SOCKS is old news and I've used this several times.

Maybe they don't want the hassle of configuring the browser (or other sw)