>"Sidestep is an open-source application for Mac OS X that sits quietly in the background, protecting your security and privacy as you browse the web."

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>"When Sidestep detects you connecting to an unprotected wireless network, it automatically encrypts all of your Internet traffic and reroutes it through a secure connection to a server of your choosing, which acts as your Internet proxy. And it does all this in the background so that you don’t even notice it."