At 10:34 AM 2/8/2011 +0100, you wrote:

----- Forwarded message from Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu ----- The real question isn't "If they shut you down, can you restart?".

The real question is "If they shut you down, can you restart in a way that avoids them attempting a second shutdown with a bullet?"

Better than a bullet is to restart in a deal with the authorities to watch and log the traffic, in the Tor model, in the ATT model, in the Oracle model, in the Microsoft model, the models of Google, Mozilla, Intel, NGOs, Wikileaks, news media, hackers, freedom fighters, cryptographers, coders, anybody needing to make a living rather than serve a cause for thrills, fun and begging for a bed and rot gut victuals. Far better than inviting a bullet is to shop your comrades, become a covert agent of the counterrevolution, actually a celebrated hero of the revolution itself defying authority, showing amazing courage, downplaying losses and collateral damage and dispensing a dose of informant poison here and there to quell internal dissent and boost reliability with those running and funding the operation. If not a turncoat hero then a pre-positioned second in command to watch and log the all too trusting hero, manage the finances, keep keys to the secrets, arrange recordable pleasurable enticements to sway the hero in the pre-planned direction, that is, right into a carefully constructed trap where a hero's only choice will be to play along or get exposed as a insanely vainglorious, self-serving, money-grubbing, child rapist to be soon dead with a vile disease. This is described in the tell all books appearing left and right and center.