Cyberspatial governments?

As Eric likes to point out, the Government is not a huge, monolithic enemy. It is a multitude of huge enemies. This was my best joke during my crypto presentation at HOPE a couple of weeks ago. I was describing threat models for remailer networks. 1. Recipient -- any indirection works 2. Sysadmins, and then I added, "or anyone else with root access". That got a big laugh. 3. Operators of the remailer nodes 4. Gov't -- law enforcement 5. Gov't -- national security It was during my explanation on why the FBI doesn't really get access to National Technical Means, e.g. NSA SIGINT, that I got the BIG laugh. Eric