All they would need now is one holding a sword aloft, and the words will flow from the mouths of geeks everywhere: "I have the Power!!!".... :-)

NY Times has more. Including links to PDF's of the response. Parts of which are also quite funny: “While we appreciate your desire to revise the statute to reflect your expansive vision of it, the fact is that we must work with the actual language of the statute, not the aspirational version” that the F.B.I. had provided.

If they want to put a "kill switch" on the main connections; then I
thinks it's time that all these home wireless ROUTERS were reprogrammed
to interconnect and route around the "killed" connections. :-) Like the
old quote "Censorship is just another routing problem".

Scooter was charged, and convicted... He just got his sentence commuted by Bush (Heck of a job Scootie)

Oh well I guess that means Peter Parker will be banned from Louisiana....

"Spider-Law, Spider-Law. 'Cause some nut job priest was outraged at what he saw..."

Subjugated no... But I do think it is a part of the President's responsibility that his decision making process also be completely documented so that it can be reviewed (AT A LATER DATE). So that at a minimum; all future administrations have the benefit of of the documentation in figuring out what both went right and what went wrong...

I think the matter should be quite clear. If President-elect Obama thinks that using this device would let him do his job job more efficiently then he has a responsibility to do so.

It would also go a long way to saying (as he himself said on Meet The Press the other day when talking about CIA officials) that he is going to focus on getting the job done, and not about covering thing up from lawyers.

Lastly it makes for a great step in trying to repair the image of the executive branch of US government in that the presumption is that what he writes doesn't NEED to be censored from public scrutiny.

The way this reads to me is that this is only an "Advisory" council. So they may not have the actual power to implement anything, and the MS lobbyist is only one voice. Hopefully reasonable decisions can still be reached.