[Rictor]

Well, in theory the cost shouldn't matter at all. If the project is good, and worth doing, the cost is justified. And if the project is intrusive, and delivers a solid back-handed bitchslap to civil liberties, well...a piece of shit tastes bad no matter how cheap you bought it. It's not like there's cause to celebrate in getting your piece of shit for a bargain price down at the Turkish flea market. You still have to eat it.

[aldo_14]

Don't forget it's been declared illegal, too.

[karajorma]

IF they bring it in I'm going to make it my personal goal to make sure that every single piece of e-mail sent within the EU is encrypted.

Let them spend ages cracking everyone's email only to find a series of fowarded jokes and mildly amusing pictures of kittens.

[Rictor]

Better yet, start putting in key words like "bomb" and "attack" in every email, to jam the system. That's actually not a bad way to protect privacy - someone ought to release a freeware program that would do it automatically.