{"id":14733,"date":"2015-01-03T14:08:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T20:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14733"},"modified":"2015-01-03T14:10:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T20:10:32","slug":"why-arent-we-using-ssh-for-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14733","title":{"rendered":"Why aren\u2019t we using SSH for everything?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A few weeks ago, I wrote <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/shazow\/ssh-chat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/shazow\/ssh-chat\">ssh-chat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"graf--figure graf--iframe\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"graf--p\">The idea is simple: You open your terminal and type,<\/p>\n<pre class=\"graf--pre\">$ ssh chat.shazow.net<\/pre>\n<p class=\"graf--p\">Unlike many others, you might stop yourself before typing \u201cls\u201d and notice\u200a\u2014\u200athat\u2019s no shell, it\u2019s a chat room!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@shazow\/ssh-how-does-it-even-9e43586e4ffc\">Why aren\u2019t we using SSH for everything? \u2014 Medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was just thinking about how useful and simple ssh is for doing end to end encryption for various services before being notified of this post.\u00a0 On a linux box you can <code>ssh -X remotehost<\/code> and bring up any X-windowed app from a terminal command.\u00a0 Very simple.\u00a0 Very useful. Very secure.\u00a0 For copying files there&#8217;s the <code>scp<\/code> command.\u00a0 And one final shout out to the <code>sshfs<\/code> command for mounting remote filesystems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I wrote ssh-chat. The idea is simple: You open your terminal and type, $ ssh chat.shazow.net Unlike many others, you might stop yourself before typing \u201cls\u201d and notice\u200a\u2014\u200athat\u2019s no shell, it\u2019s a chat room! via Why &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14733\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287],"tags":[718,338,28,157],"class_list":["post-14733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interfaces","tag-data-security","tag-encryption","tag-linux-command","tag-ssh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14735,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14733\/revisions\/14735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}