Uh, how come we can't stick to attacking the message, rather than the messenger?
Because in this case, the messenger is an integral part of the message.
I disagree. How do you react when you see an attack ad on TV. Does it really want to make you vote for the sponsor? Or does it make you wish they'd BOTH crawl off and die somewhere? After watching just a little of the Huffington vs Feinstein Senate campaign here in CA, I know how *I* feel. We definitely have the upper hand on this issue. Dorothy Denning may be a naive pawn of the government. She may hold beliefs that appall the rest of us. She may have lost whatever credibility she had in the crypto community by her position. But I still prefer to attack that position and the (il)logic behind it rather than to resort to attacking the person expressing it. Especially when the argument itself is almost a no-brainer. Phil