Reminds me of an old Japanese story about the three blind men playing a game of Paper Scissors Stone. They'll never be sure they're doing it right. I think he

Reminds me of an old Japanese story about the three blind men playing a game of Paper Scissors Stone. They'll never be sure they're doing it right. I think he is talking about an activist panic button for data. Too many cops smashing cameras. It’s very tough without a confederate. Once you get it into friendly hands, even for a few minutes, they can spread it from there. Those international forces of evil probably have a server or two down in the old volcano lair. This "confederate" can be some service that copies data to many places like Freenet, CoralCache, etc. If you don’t have confederates the game is very different. You are then trying to get a piece of data into the hands of many many people who are not previously expecting it, on the hopes that a few will read it and act. That’s pretty much the definition of spam, no?