From smb@cs.columbia.edu Fri Jul 6 02:34:52 2018 From: Steven Bellovin To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: public scalable vpn? Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:34:52 +0000 Message-ID: <172289271407.3881296.4235498912889715172.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============6949689627173511314==" --===============6949689627173511314== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Feb 18, 2012, at 6:51 PM, George Bonser wrote: >> academics in ontario are gonna need a scalable vpn service until they >> find jobs elsewhere. >>=20 >> http://www.cautbulletin.ca/en_article.asp?SectionID=3D1386&SectionName=3DNe >> ws&VolID=3D336&VolumeName=3DNo%202&VolumeStartDate=3D2/10/2012&EditionID= =3D36&E >> ditionName=3DVol%2059&EditionStartDate=3D1/19/2012&ArticleID=3D3400 >>=20 >> i can only handle a dozen or so. anyone running anything at scale? >>=20 >> randy >=20 > "The agreement reached last month with the licensing agency includes provis= ions defining e-mailing hyperlinks as equivalent to photocopying a document" >=20 > I certainly hope that is some politicized hype printed in that article and = not real. That is absolutely idiotic on the face of it. When I have seen st= uff like this printed in the past it has generally been over the top catastro= phizing of an issue in order to inflame emotions. I sure hope that's the cas= e here. Otherwise my impression of Canadians has sunk to a new low. Why wou= ld it be in anyone's interest to sign such an agreement? It seems to be real -- see http://communications.uwo.ca/western_news/stories/= 2012/February/copyright_deal_struck.html I asked a Canadian friend of mine (who has serious privacy and security exper= tise) about it. She said "Yes - we were discussing this vile decision in my = Technopolicy law class... I have no idea what they were thinking! Idiots." --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb ----- End forwarded message ----- --=20 Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============6949689627173511314==--