[150225] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: public scalable vpn?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Sun Feb 19 11:48:26 2012
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <596B74B410EE6B4CA8A30C3AF1A155EA09CD4316@RWC-MBX1.corp.seven.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:47:29 -0500
To: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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=3DN=
e
>> =
ws&VolID=3D336&VolumeName=3DNo%202&VolumeStartDate=3D2/10/2012&EditionID=3D=
36&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 =
provisions 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 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?
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
