gHacks technology news » secure tunnel http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Access Hulu from outside the United States http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/06/access-hulu-from-outside-the-united-states/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/06/access-hulu-from-outside-the-united-states/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:59:23 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/06/access-hulu-from-outside-the-united-states/ So, you have received one of those much though after Hulu private invitations only to find out that you can’t watch a single movie on their website because of their geo-targeting ? Viewers who do not live in the United States get the following line whenever they try to watch a video at Hulu.

“Unfortunately this video is currently not available in your country or region. We apologize for the inconvenience”. That means that if you live in the United States but are currently abroad you can’t watch the videos at Hulu. Unless, you have found a way to use a service that hides your IP and displays one from the United States.

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The following method is unfortunately not free but works perfectly to watch all videos at Hulu. Secure-Tunnel offers a software that tunnels your connection through their service which is located in the United States. This means that you can use their software to watch videos at Hulu plus use any other service that is geotargeted to the United States. This includes Pandora for instance.

Secure-Tunnel offers several packages and all work beginning with the Gold package which costs roughly $8 per month. What I really like about this solution is that the software that you install is recognizing software that is connecting to the Internet and is asking you if you want to tunnel that software.

Besides the obvious effect that you can watch Hulu videos and listen to Pandora Radio streams you also hide your own IP and use an encrypted connection. This increases the security level of your connection as well as your own privacy.

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As you can see it is possible to access Hulu from outside the United States and watch all shows without interruption.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/06/access-hulu-from-outside-the-united-states/feed/ 50 Use WinSCP to securely copy files between two computers http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/09/use-winscp-to-securely-copy-files-between-two-computers/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/09/use-winscp-to-securely-copy-files-between-two-computers/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:00:12 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/09/use-winscp-to-securely-copy-files-between-two-computers/ A reader of my site asked which program I was using to transfer files between my local computer and my dedicated server. The question looks easy to answer at first glance but actually it is not that easy. I’m actually using two ways to connect to my dedicated server depending on the tasks at hand. I use Putty to connect to my dedicated server when I want to administrate it: create new virtual hosts, ftp accounts and the like. I do use WinSCP for all other tasks, mainly for opening a secure connection to my dedicated server which uses SSH.

I can then copy files from and to my dedicated server using this secure connection. I upload new websites this way or download mysql backups or other files that i want to store locally. Well, today version 4 of WinSCP was released as a beta. The main additions are ftp support (remember it supported SFTP before only) and SSH tunnel support. The later feature is not that important for me but the first is really nice.

The changelog for WinSCP 4.0 beta lists a lot of bug fixes and changes that would be to much to list here at my site. Just take a look at the changelog at the official site if this is really interesting for you.

What do you use to connect to a dedicated server ? Remember that I’m still using Windows mainly which limits the choice of programs that I could use.

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