Those who don't remember the past are doomed to repeat it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... (one of the earlier UNCOL)

I'll go back to my cave now

Bouvier's Law Dictionary, of course, only has the 1st definition, in somewhat more detail

You seem to only recall on of the possible definitions (granted the most common, and the one the government would like to use against whistleblowers):

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

    treason
            n 1: a crime that undermines the offender's government [syn:
                      {treason}, {high treason}, {lese majesty}]
            2: disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior [syn: {treason},
                  {subversiveness}, {traitorousness}]
            3: an act of deliberate betrayal [syn: {treachery}, {betrayal},
                  {treason}, {perfidy}]

The other two do, in some ways, describe the NSA & FISA

This is just one amongst the plethora of reasons I install openWRT on linksys and (some) belkin devices.

I'll grant iMessage, and the current Google Hangouts -- neither have an option for 'otr' type functionality (yet, in the latter case).

gtalk did have 'otr' (not sure if it was as secure as BBM), and I routinely ran 'otr' plugins on XMPP (including gtalk), and even SameTime

the otr plugins likely matches BBM - with symmetric encryption

The problem with setting up a secure IM is the setup effort can reduce the number of folks using it. otr was actually pretty simple, but things like pgp require users to setup and distribute keys... Something a lot of non-tech people just wont do

If not, it should at least limit the number of users to those who *must* communicate to a Blackberry device.

Otherwise, 'tis just another small player in the plethora of contenders for IM tools