On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:18:52PM +0000, Smylers wrote: [...] > If they're happy for me to make encrypted searches over their network and > equipment in my own home, why should they have a problem with my doing that > at a bus stop?
I doubt that they're "happy" about you making encrypted searches, but rather that they know that they wouldn't get away with MITMing your home connection in such an overt manner.