All praise to Jeff and his fellow programmers for sharing the struggle to come up with stronger cypto, but, no praise at all to Netscape's front office guys bullshitting the stock holders and speculators. Check the press releases and the speeches to customers and investors. Scott McNealy shocked an audience into silence at a recent plush meeting of high-tech reps with investors by asking, "Anybody telling the truth here?" Then applause broke out for his shrewd beat-em-to-the-punch candor to offset the pervasive cynicism of oft-burned high-tech investors. Big bucks are not made by hard-working programmers but by the marketeers of NASDAQ and NYSE smoke and mirrors used to lure multitudes of unsavvy investors and Internet merchandisers. Netscape's leaders are protecting its major stockholding coldhearts, just like Microsoft, Intel, Motorola, AT&T, and the rest do, or they die in the financial fuck-the- public sharkpool. They couldn't care less about the bottom- of-the-ladder techies who do the grunge work, take the blame for programming mistakes produced under horrendous marketing deadlines, and then are left to commiserate with each other and gnaw knuckles. That's the joy and sorrow of this reading list, the ancient story, talented people working their asses off for sons of bitches who think employees are contemptible, disposable or bribeable for cheap change and backpats -- and easily replaceable on shore or off. Jeff's not alone in this bind.