Interesting take, Declan. Which highlights how most of natsec-developed technology entering the market gets the benefit of dual-use regulation. Janus the model. Self-policing is a kissing cousin of self-censorship, both pretend at keeping the fuzz out of private affairs by pretending to be doing nothing worth official attention. And both need regular contact with cops to assure that all is in order, give or take a few handovers of those who go too far, whose names just happened to pop up in this handy snitch program. Banks and telecomms been doing the snitch not nearly as long as the church, rather the state snitching to the church, depending on who's in charge of the day's inquisition. (Interesting stuff in recent books on Vatican and global intel services regular kiss-kissing.) Austin promised a few months back, I believe here, that he would keep us informed of his meetings with law enforcement officials. I must have missed those reports among the pr downpour. This is not to say that he did not report to select customers on how those briefings are going. Question is which cpunks at ZKS will be handed over to assure displeased oversighters. And who there will smile among themselves at the gullible fools' failure to see what realists always claim is obvious behind the cloak of successful wedding of business and government and foolsgold faith that it can never ever happen here, not so long as I'm around (the refrain at PGP, and others of the trusted second party). Young men and a few women die all the time for they know not what strategy considered them expendable -- in the national interest, lately, but traditionally to assure rule-makers they are quite exceptional to the rules.