You could do the world a favor by making fun of recent GAK (Government Accesst to Keys) proposals which are currently circulating in the organs of power under newspeak names like "key escrow" and "key recovery". Also, it's an easy target, and a big issue with a lot of your techie readers. Have some leader on television announce that henceforth all e-mail will be scanned by federal investigatory gremlins in the name of public safety, but never fear!! For your privacy will be PERSONALLY GUARANTEED by the new Privacy Czar... <camera pans...> Catbert! Or Dogbert. Or Ratbert, heck. Or Bob! Lots of your characters make good government leaders. :-) Thanks! Zooko, Journeyman Wizard P.S. I think I'll Cc: this to the cypherpunks. No doubt they will hack your account and send you death threats and make me regret it, but heck, maybe you can get some good mileage out of making fun of THEM, too.