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can someone please explain to me exactly how running your traffic through a local proxy serves to protect it? I'm very confused.

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the phrasing is vague, but all it is describing is tunneling http/etc through ssh. Ostensibly, you have some remote server whose internet connection is more "secure" than your home connection.

I for one do not own any servers in Switzerland...

hi romnempire,

This is not exactly a pure local proxy as per one might imagine, but rather, a local proxy that tunnels through your ssh connection.

In other words, an "ssh tunnel"

i don't understand how that makes things secure. You are connecting to your own endsystem using ssh, and then your endsystem, on the server side, must send out an http/bittorrent/whatever packet to the content distributor over the same insecure channel your original application would have had to, right?

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