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Thanks!

Thanks, that's really useful and good to know.

Thanks. I guess I need to read up on it more!

Re surfeasy - please and forgive the ignorance here - does using a VPN affect port based traffic restrictions? For example, a number of ISPs in the UK cap torrent traffic during peak hours. Is this something that if you were using software like surfeasy would be avoidable, or would it still be able to see the nature of the traffic/packets to slow them down?

For Michael Geist, very happy to see you on here! Yours is a name that comes up a lot on my internet. With the recent NSA information that has come out, probably the biggest shock to me is the apathy with which it has been received. I have always felt that this aspect of our lives, and the need for privacy, is incredibly important; DRM and any technology that enforces business models on us or reduces our control over our personal information has always struck a personal chord. I finally was forced by my bank to have a card with an RFID chip and am now waiting for a Humn wallet to go with it! My question is: in your experience in dealing with this type of information and the public response, how do you think we should approach this? Is there anything that you can think of that will actually be strident enough to bypass this inbuilt resistance that people seem to have to caring about the government's abuses of power? I see a striking similarity between this and issues like gun ownership, which are linked to many people's identity/national identity, and for which they fight vehemently. The right to privacy is intrinsic to democracy and freedom and is a corner stone of virtually every modern country, so why is this not perceived as an aspect of personal identity for which it is worth fighting tooth and nail? It seems to be that until people have been personally burned by this they are incapable of identifying with it.

Also, do you see any sense of a reversing in the trend in Canada right now to take these freedoms away? The government has continuously been removing freedoms from people and very publicly fighting for corporations against the wills of the people. My parents REALLY want me to move back to Canada but I don't see how I can when it keeps getting worse. I was so incredibly proud when the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that downloading a song on the internet was tantamount to having a photocopier in a public library. Any chance we can get back there? (And yes, with the way the UK is going, I don't know how much longer I can live here either... suggestions on countries that seem to care about their people? :) )

Thanks!