That's fair enough. Just as you thought your non-hacker stories might be of interest to programmers, so I thought my non-tech story might be of interest to hack

That's fair enough. Just as you thought your non-hacker stories might be of interest to programmers, so I thought my non-tech story might be of interest to hackers also. Programmers are after all v interested in issues of liberty - your interesting article on UK libel laws being a case is point. The difference is that I did not go around accusing you of link-bait. But, yes, let's just leave it that.