Made mostly in response to FireSheep but mostly just a good idea when on non-WPA wi-fi. Opens a new SSH connection and tunnels your traffic through it. For OS X. Requires iTerm. You should really have it anyway. Thanks/sorry to Jon Gales (www.jongales.c

FireMiddleFingerITerm.scpt

set myHost to "a host you have ssh access to"
set userName to "your username on said host"
set socksPort to 8080

tell application "iTerm"
	activate
	set openProxy to false
	repeat with curTerm in terminals
		repeat with curSesh in curTerm's sessions
			if curSesh's name is "FireMiddleFinger" then
				set openProxy to true
			end if
		end repeat
	end repeat
	-- make a new terminal
	set myterm to current terminal
	
	if not openProxy then
		-- talk to the new terminal
		tell myterm
			-- make a new session
			set mysession to (make new session at the end of sessions)
			
			-- talk to the session
			tell mysession
				-- set some attributes?
				-- execute a command
				exec command "/bin/zsh --login"
				write text "ssh " & userName & "@" & myHost 
					& " -D " & socksPort & " 2> /dev/null"
				set the name of mysession to "FireMiddleFinger"
				
			end tell -- we are done talking to the session
		end tell
	end if
end tell

tell application "System Preferences"
	activate
	set current pane to pane "com.apple.preference.network"
end tell

tell application "System Events"
	get properties
	tell process "System Preferences"
		tell window "Network"
			-- Selects the active network connection
			tell table 1 of scroll area 1
				click row 1
			end tell
			
			--Select the Advanced button
			click button 11
			
			--Select the Proxies tab
			tell tab group 1 of sheet 1
				-- delay 1
				click radio button 6
				
				tell group 1
					tell table 1 of scroll area 1
						set selected of row 6 to true
						click checkbox of row 6
						if value of (checkbox 1 of row 6) is 1 then
							set outStr to "You Turned SOCKS ON"
						else
							set outStr to "You Turned SOCKS OFF"
						end if
					end tell
				end tell
				
			end tell
			tell sheet 1
				click button "OK"
			end tell
		end tell
		tell window "Network"
			click button "Apply"
		end tell
	end tell
end tell
tell application "System Preferences"
	quit
end tell

-- Voice status of SOCKS Proxy settings
say outStr

on line 29, /dev/mull isn't a place to put things :(

derp O_o