Tunnel your Android traffic over ssh (lifehacker.com)

The article mentions skipping around the Great Firewall, or accessing services only available in certain countries. To me the benefit would be that the phone company or whatever local wifi I am using couldn't log my traffic. You may lose out on some services using geoip for your location, but the tradeoff is acceptable to me.

Doesn't this presume that the app vendor can be trusted not to be intercepting your traffic?

Anyone else trying to read lifehacker without JS?