public scalable vpn?

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academics in ontario are gonna need a scalable vpn service until they
find jobs elsewhere.

http://www.cautbulletin.ca/en_article.asp?SectionID=1386&SectionName=News&VolID=336&VolumeName=No%202&VolumeStartDate=2/10/2012&EditionID=36&EditionName=Vol%2059&EditionStartDate=1/19/2012&ArticleID=3400

i can only handle a dozen or so. anyone running anything at scale?

randy

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academics in ontario are gonna need a scalable vpn service until they
find jobs elsewhere.

Bulletin | CAUT
ws&VolID=336&VolumeName=No%202&VolumeStartDate=2/10/2012&EditionID=36&E
ditionName=Vol%2059&EditionStartDate=1/19/2012&ArticleID=3400

i can only handle a dozen or so. anyone running anything at scale?

randy

"The agreement reached last month with the licensing agency includes provisions defining e-mailing hyperlinks as equivalent to photocopying a document"

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 stuff like this printed in the past it has generally been over the top catastrophizing of an issue in order to inflame emotions. I sure hope that's the case here. Otherwise my impression of Canadians has sunk to a new low. Why would it be in anyone's interest to sign such an agreement?

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I certainly hope that is some politicized hype printed in that article
and not real.

For example, if I have a copy of a copyrighted piece that I am not authorized to redistribute on a server and I send someone a hyperlink to it so they can download it, I can see that as different from sending them a hyperlink to the legitimate distribution outlet for the piece and I am concerned that the author of the article has been careful not to mention that distinction for the sole purpose of making it appear much more draconian than it really is. On the other hand, giving a third party ANY access to my employees' correspondence for ANY purpose is reason to be seriously concerned as that could be abused in any number of ways.

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https://www.torproject.org/

-DMM

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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 expertise) 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