Requiring software vendors to build intercept functionality into their products is unwise and will be ineffective, with the result being serious consequences for the economic well being and national security of the United States. See https://www.cdt.org/files/pdfs/CALEAII-techreport.pdf for more details. http://wh.gov/Skyk Please go to link and sign,

I wish I had confidence that Obama's economic folks are reading the right solutions
that are being put forward. My concern is that the economy will stay bad until there
is liquidity in the housing market.

Most of the proposals I see to address that try to help people keep prices at the last
sale value which is artificially inflating prices over the current market clearing
amount. The Economist had an article on this:

http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12470547

which cites Luigi Zingales - Plan B paper.

http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/luigi.zingales/research/PSpapers/plan_b.pdf

It not only has a proposal based on things that have been done before, to avoid foreclosures
while lowering house prices to the market rate, but also addresses the connectivity risk
between banks and other financial institutions.

Anyone interested in thinking carefully about future economic policy should read this paper.

Also I would think that a Slashdot crowd would like Obama's team to read 'The Gridlock
Economy' which addresses among other things the significant negative economic affect of
our intellectual property system - an issue near and dear to many slashdot readers.