Why is it that in 2010 we still try to create even more victimless crimes? Even if I'm against the object of the crime itself, I'm very much opposed to my tax dollars being wasted on people who want to do it.

I don't care if my neighbor plays poker. I do care if I have to pay money because my neighbor plays poker.

I never understood why people bothered with Acrobat Reader on Linux - KPDF/Okular has been smaller, faster and nicer looking for years, and it integrates better with the KDE desktop. I'd imagine the same it true of whatever Gnome uses?

Because if we default the economy will make the Great Depression look like the good old days.

*The dollar would immediately crash to record lows as no foreign investors would trust US assets.
*The US would be unable to borrow additional money, probably at any rate. Who would trust us? Even if we offered up the white house as collateral we could just reneg again
*Banks, companies, and individual investors hold billions in US savings bonds as long term safe investments. They're considered as good as cash- you can bring one to a bank and they'll pay you on the spot for it with only a service fee. Those would become worth pennies on the dollar. Banks would go bankrupt and be unable to loan, companies would be unable to make payroll. You would be looking at 30-40% unemplyment within a year.

The US has never defaulted on a national debt in its 230+ year history. It won't start now. We'd be better off jumping back to Eisenhower tax rates to pay interest than in defaulting.

"Squeeze harder! I'm sure there's still some juice left in that lemon."

Zombie plan, man. Zombie plan.

I've an idea then for how to circumvent this, that doesn't require defeating the mathematics involved.

Alright, so say you're running this software for whatever reason, maybe just to keep up appearences. But you don't want your traffic flagged, and you don't want to filter at the router. We can still decompile though. So... What about extracting the placeholder and the public key, then replacing the software with your own version that ALWAYS outputs the encrypted placeholder regardless of the input?

Just a thought, thanx for your attention.