Heres the deal pc help, Im on a linux machine running xubuntu (dont flame) anyway when i browse the net / go on gaim ect... my dad is seeing what im doing.. he has verry little knolege of linux so i know that he has not installed anything on my computer like a backdoor (ect...) and we run an isp from our house .. we have many servers and stuff... he tells me he can see the packets im sending and recieving... is there a way i can encrypt the packets im sending and the ones im recieving also be encrypted? It bothers me he can see what im doing... Im writing this to you from a library pc connected to the net so he will have no knoledge what i am saying to you Please Help!

Hi unomeasjon.

Unfortunatly as you run an ISP out of your house, and you no doubt connect to the internet via that ISP, there is no way to hide what packets are being sent and recieved.

Unless you move out of your dad's house...basically, he can see what websites you're going to, what servers you're connected to, but won't be able to "see" what you're doing. Just that you're using that page for that long and recieving that amount of data.

unomeasjon: did you solve your problem as there has been no response for a while.

marked as pending.

Wow, Lol its been awhile... I googled my username and this site came up. I currently dont run linux anymore. I have way more knowledge of the situation. He is just looking at the sites Im going on (since I connect to his DNS server for my DNS) That was the only way. Right now he cannot see what Im saying to you. But he can see that I was on pchelpforum.com .. thats it... Guess no more porn. Or atleast find a site that doesnt have a suspicious adress... LOL thanks.. sorry for bumping this. Just wanted everyong to know im good.

Normally I would recommend OpenDNS for stuff like this, but since he's probably monitoring more than just DNS requests that would not solve anything.

If you can get a friend to give you an account on a pc and run open ssh server, You could set up an ssh tunnel where everything is encrypted, what you would need to do is use something like Putty to set up the tunnel, and then set your proxy options in your browser.

This leaves DNS requests in plaintext though, but in firefox atleast you can send the DNS requests through the tunnel therefore encrypting them (Once you have your proxy set nagivate to about:config and type dns in the filter box, then from there make network.proxy.socks.remote_dns TRUE)

Hopefully this answers your question and i'll include a few links for info.

Ssh tunnel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SSH Tunnelling (Port Forwarding)
Tunneling PuTTY through a Firewall at Your Company or School

If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.