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SSH or Secure SHell is a protocol for connecting to a remote computer’s shell securely.  Many people use it for just this purpose, but there are several less used, yet extremely useful tricks you can use to get more out of SSH.

In this post, I will cover what forward and reverse tunneling of ports through SSH is.  Why you would want to do it, and how to do it.  Port tunneling is also known as port forwarding.

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I’ve just come back from my sister-in-laws wedding. It was great and we took some really good photos. (When I see we, I mean Jude took some really great photos, and I cut some peoples head off). Unfortunately, we accidentally formatted the card and lost all of our photos.

Being fairly geeky, Jude and I thought we might be able to recover some of the photos. Never tried it before, but thought it should be possible.  If they can do it on CSI, it must be possible.  Right?

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