Thanks Dan for a well thought out contribution to this thread. 

ISOC-NY President David Solomonoff has written about some of the pitfalls:

http://www.bloggernews.net/126134

Internet freedom initiatives must be independent of political connotations, run on a decentralized infrastructure, and use technology that is subject to public review by security experts. Most importantly, users must have complete trust in the skills and integrity of the people providing those tools and services.
If they don’t the cure could prove worse than the disease.

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Dan Krimm <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I am reading these appeals from Mohab and Hago with genuine empathy, and
yet some concern.  The short answer is that in the end there is no silver
bullet, yet there may be smaller opportunities for advancement to be
discovered and exploited along the way.



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