So, just tunnel SSH over SSL, and buy yourself a proper certificate.

Why set it up as adhoc? If you have a decent card you can put it into master mode and broadcast like an AP.

Depends where you are. I found myself a nice VPS on the US east coast for $7 a month with unmetered bandwidth. I manage to get 150KB/s to it from South Africa, combining this with FoxyProxy allows me to watch YouTube videos and the like faster than through my normal connection.

How exactly do you define something that looks encrypted? As mentioned before good encryption should be indistinguishable from random data, so are they going to block all data that looks random? Heck, how do you define 'looks random'?

Oh really? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Federal_Spending_-_FY_2007.png

That's right, I guess they're just going to mandate that the millions of computers that don't have TPM on disappear. Oh, and it's not technologically impossible to bypass either. It may be very difficult, but when it comes down to it, you still have the keys.

Because MAC addresses are impossible to change, right? Right?

Why not whip up some code that will wait for you to send an email to it containing some sort of pass code and a URL, then it fetches the page and all images, lzma and yEncs it, and then emails it back to you. It may not work so nicely with complicated sites, but for things like Wikipedia it would work great. I'm willing to bet however, that with enough effort you could write a fully fledged proxy. Latency may be really crap, but it would be undeniably cool. Also, have a look at programs such as http://code.kryo.se/iodine that allow you to run IPv4 over DNS.

You're doing it wrong.

I think it has something to do with the way different BIOSes handle USB booting. A laptop of mine couldn't boot any earlier version via USB, whereas my normal PC could.

I thought sotftupdates only had issues on NetBSD.

Please, which sounds better:
... that your transfer protocols sends a confirmation ...
or
... that the transfer protocol sends a confirmation ...