So you are left with two options: purchase or set up a VPN connection on your own webhost/VPS, or use putty to set up a SSH tunnel and ProxyCap to connect to server in America. Thankfully, for me anyway, my Linode is in the United States! Setting up a VPN connection is a lengthy process, you really want to avoid doing so at all costs; whilst a SSH tunnel requires very little work! For those of you without a server to connect to, finding a cheap VPN is your best option for streaming video from these sites.

What you will need to do is: set up a SSH tunnel to your US server, then instruct your web browser to connect via that tunnel. This will work like setting a proxy server, but pointing to localhost/127.0.0.1 (your own computer) Putty will then force all connections to Hulu to go through your US server, and will make it possible to watch Hulu/South Park/One Piece videos.

You should already have SSH on your webhost/server. Most shared web providers will allow SSH access with the same details you use for your FTP settings. This is because SSH is far more secure than FTP; so you should be using it already!

To set up the SSH tunnel, you will need to use a certain set of options in Putty:

This is from the SSH -> Tunnelling Menu

Once you have it set up like in the picture, press ‘add’ and the forwarded ports should state D8080 or D<your port>. Save your connection settings for later and connect to your site. Alternatively, you may use a command line tool like this:

ssh -D 8080 -p 22 -f -N exampleuser@exampleserver.com

In either case, you may use a different port than 8080.

Next in your browser, you need to change your connection settings to connect via a SOCKS proxy based at 127.0.0.1 using port 8080. The following picture shows the correct set up on Firefox:

This is how you set up Firefox for SSH tunneling

Now you are almost there! Check your connection works, if it doesn’t it is likely you have typed in the wrong port or have not connected to your server yet, both easy mistakes. You could use the FoxyProxy extension if you wish to set up some advanced rules (e.g. use the proxy only for Hulu.)

Now you may find you can now browse One Piece Official, which you could not before; this is because you now have an American IP. Check it out on any of the hundreds of ‘what is my ip’ clones. Yet, don’t bother trying the watch any of the videos on Hulu yet, there is still one step to go! This is because Flash does not respect your browser’s settings and just does what it wants, so tries to connect via your standard connection — effectively bypassing your proxy. You will need to get a copy of ProxyCap, they provide a free 30 day trial on their site. I am not sure if the trial is like WinRar’s infamous 30 days, or if you can simply redownload it. There is a FoxyProxy video helper, which supposedly does the same job; but I can not get it to work for me. If anyone has any tips, that would be a great free alternative.

Once ProxyCap is installed you need to edit the preferences to use your proxy, click the dotted square nto the right of the text ‘Manage your proxies’. Enter 127.0.0.1 and your port, as shown below:

Setting up our tunnel as a proxy

Next you need to update the rules to allow ProxyCap to deal with UDP, as follows:

The only change here is a tick on UDP

Now go check out Hulu and enjoy some TV!

For those of you who wish to use the BBC iPlayer this will work in the same manner, just get a UK based server

Related posts:

1. Aircrack on the N900

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I have been playing outside of the maemo repositories and decided to give everyones favourite ’security’ program Aircrack (aircrack-ng) a go. After setting up a debian repository from an official mirror installation was easy via the command line, a simple sudo apt-get install aircrack-ng.

Once installed, you cannot use the program straight away. This is because your wireless card will already be in use, or have been set up for ‘Managed mode’ where the operating system deals with setting up wireless networks. To get out of this, and into Monitor mode, you will need root access and go through the following commands:

root

ifconfig wlan0 down

iwconfig wlan0 mode Monitor

ifconfig wlan0 up

If you wish to use a different mac (useful when doing a fake auth,) go through the same process but instead of setting monitor mode use macchanger (e.g. macchanger mac=11:22:33:44:55:66). You can now use monitor mode and aircrack in all it’s glory! See the following for an injection test:

I crashed out early, due to my battery being on its last legs!

This is the result of a dump, the command used here was airodump-ng wlan0 -c 6

As you can see the N900 captured my WPA handshake, so I could crack my own WPA network; but that would be silly!

Airodump running on the N900: hope you like my faked mac address!

So aircrack looks like it can simply be moved to Maemo-extras (devel or testing.) It just needs more testing to check if inject is really working. My N900 had been up for 48 hours at this point, so didn’t wish to comply with testing

Related posts:

1. Update on Aircrack for N900
2. Nmap now on the N900!
3. PR1.1.1 N900 Update still not out in the UK

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