Kent Crispin wrote:

Owners of a business have the right to control the documents associated with their business as they see fit, including using key escrow and mandating it for all keys used by employees in the business. Other companies see this as an opportunity to supply a service or a product that facilitates this management. Both classes of companies are pursuing completely legitimate ends. Therefore, your call to sabatoge is doomed to failure in the long run, and probably in the short run as well.

And owners of a body and mind have a right to control the physical and mental environment that they live in, including using any means necessary to protect natural human rights that have been stolen by governments and profited from by companies who will help promote this theft for the right price. Tim's call to sabatoge is not doomed to failure as long as there are still individuals who have a conscience (and know how to use it.) People asked to build a potential Nazi death camp should always avail themselves of an option to build in a backdoor, in case the need should ever arise to use it. Or build a timebomb in a tank that can be activated if it is needed to destroy an advancing army of oppressors. Like it or not, we live in a predatorial universe, where the biggest carnivors make the 'rules' so that they get the lion's share of the meat, and thus remain the largest in the pack. Each organism, however, has their own strengths and their own methods of survival. Anyone who helps build the road to their own destruction, without availing themselves of every opportunity to sabatoge construction of that road, is a fool. The fact that a slave owner keeps his slaves well-fed and comfortable enough to cause him little trouble does not negate the fact that, when it better suits his purpose, he will use the whip to keep others in subjection to him. The time to make preparations for safety and flight is not after you are thrown in chains. The time is alwasy _now_. The fact is, there are many ways of preparing for future action which infringe little or none on the rights of others to act in their own best interest. Arming oneself to defend against possible threats doesn't infringe on others rights to defend themselves.. Armed groups passing laws to prevent others from being able to defend themselves does. No matter what lengths the government goes to to infringe on basic human rights, there will always be individuals and corporations fighting over who gets to profit from the actions, all the while claiming, "We don't put them in the ovens, we just turn on the gas." Do corporations have more rights than the citizens? That depends entirely on the citizens. TruthMonger "We have met the enemy, and he is Kent."