I am commenting on your Lawsuit Loan Funding posting awhile back. There are a handful of companies that will fund lawsuits in-progress. These lawsuit loan funding companies will look at all types of cases. Actually these are not loans because if the plaintiff loses the money does not have to be paid back. For more information please visit http://www.fredcoutts.com/indexlawsuit.htm

That's a good point about tangible devices beating policy arguments. The thing that really killed the old Clipper chip proposal wasn't arguments about privacy, it's that Matt Blaze showed how to extract key data from the chip! A simple (and probably correctable) technological flaw damaged the reputation of the whole program to the point that the government gave up on it. Similarly, if the conventional wisdom says that the Broadcast Flag doesn't work because anybody can build a device to easily circumvent it, that could have a big impact.