Prosthetic Conscience

It’s nice that Chrome has Incognito Mode. But how incognito is it when your network admin can monitor the content of your traffic? Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to switch your network traffic to a secure channel – like an SSH tunnel to an http proxy under your control, or TOR?

Firefox has the ‘Distrust’ extension that provides the same protections as Chrome’s Incognito Mode (other than the v. stylish fedora-wearing spy logo). And it also has your choice of extensions that let you switch proxies without going into the depths of the advanced settings menu: QuickProxy, SwitchProxy, FoxyProxy, and several TOR-specific extensions. Now if only Distrust had a setting that let one turn on their proxy for the duration of the Distrust session…