It's possible that the technical discussion about online signature checking was subsumed by the political discussion--the two are interrelated and if we don't g

It's possible that the technical discussion about online signature checking was subsumed by the political discussion--the two are interrelated and if we don't get into these discussions here I don't really see another place for them to happen. It's easy to shrug it off as simply a technical issue, and it's very convenient for the PR department as well.