Indeed, it is hard to tell the difference between spoofing and grave pronouncements on threats to one's own interests under guise of national secuirty and/or personal privacy, for the truthful lying that accompanies each performance are identical. Spoofing has the ethical and humorous edge, however, in that it gives clues to its origin as entertainment -- let's us in on the joke -- while the seriously dramatic performer aims at dominating us with profundity, wisdom, righteousness, conviction and disdain for disbelievers in the blind faith of the performer in the importance of her responsibility to hector and lecture us into craven servility. All leaders suffer over self-importance and thereby demand ridicule to save us from them. Here's a Bronx cheer to the non-spoofers, who don't get that the joke's on them. Thank Zeus and Juno, as far as I've read here, cypherpunks has no implacably non-spoofers posting, though a few of us are pretty good at behaving seriously briefly, spoofing seriousness. And PGP is doing a fine sanctimonious act worthy of high ridicule, it's just conforming to what businesses and governments do to survive the disloyalty of employees and citizens who don't believe once-trusted leaders inevitably corrupted by power, fame and chance to forever escape work (corrupt me, do). They become parodies of themselves. Anonymous got it right: Bosses and Government, no difference, same liars and snoopers and non-spoofers who just don't get what's wrong with putting their interests before ours, we gobbling voracious maggots.