Adam Back wrote:

No offense Declan, but what has this got to do with cypherpunks, cryptography, crypto politics etc? (This is not a perrygram, this is a message saying I found that particular article uninteresting).

Adam, I believe that Declan may be trying to keep things in perspective, by reminding us who the actual users of "widespread crypto" will be, GAK or no GAK. As a matter of fact, Declan and I are counting on you to explain the issues involved to our good friend and neighbor, Debbie (details below), and get back to us with her thoughts on the crypto issues which are relevant, from her perspective. * At a celebrity auction in May, Debbie Dacoba of Paw Paw, Mich., bid $8,625 for a pair of Mr. Ed's horseshoes and was so overcome with joy when she won that she had to retreat to the ladies' room for 20 minutes until she stopped crying. Later she told a reporter that she would keep the horseshoes in plastic because specks of brown residue in the nail holes "could be manure, which I hope it is because then I have a piece of him." ManureMonger ~~~~~~~~~~~~ To read these News of the Weird newspaper columns from the past six months, go to http://www.nine.org/notw/notw.html (That site contains no graphics, no photos, no video clips, no audio. Just text. Deal with it.)