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Suggestion for a meeting topic



That seems to be a rather narrow topic. Is it reasonable to expand it a
little and discuss the general use of SSH, SSL and PGP based
applications to ensure privacy on both private and public workstations
(or is that now too broad?)? Perhaps my past experience of no real
privacy at work is a more realistic eventuality?

Bill Horne wrote:

> I just thought of a meeting topic:  I'd like to know how to use
> SSH (or anything else) to get past my boss' firewall/caching
> proxy and allow me to collect pop mail, etc.  Currently, all
> calls to port 110 are trapped.
>
> How about a meeting on how to set up a virtual terminal server,
> that will allow Secure Socket Layer connections to a home
> machine from any browser?
>
> Bill
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