ssh as a cheap way around firewalls is nifty, but caveat ssh-or, for sure. A colleague of mine used this to connect to Yahoo IM (or somesuch; details not important) for some totally innocent IM'ing. Nothing against the company, no secrets leaked, nothing against any of his signed agreements. (Only that he couldn't use IM.)
While corporate IT couldn't tell exactly what was going on, they did ask him why he was ssh'd to an ISP-provided IP for X hours using Y bytes. So don't try to outclever your company this way; they can still nab you on suspicion of whatever, even if what you did was non-harmful in any way.
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ssh as a cheap way around firewalls is nifty, but caveat ssh-or, for sure. A colleague of mine used this to connect to Yahoo IM (or somesuch; details not important) for some totally innocent IM'ing. Nothing against the company, no secrets leaked, nothing against any of his signed agreements. (Only that he couldn't use IM.)
While corporate IT couldn't tell exactly what was going on, they did ask him why he was ssh'd to an ISP-provided IP for X hours using Y bytes. So don't try to outclever your company this way; they can still nab you on suspicion of whatever, even if what you did was non-harmful in any way.