Lecture

1. Larrabee's cipher was (self-)proclaimed to be the greatest cipher invented or discovered. With Hogg's improvements. That seems a little weird. Probably the most difficult thing for me here is not falling into the same trap they did. Yeah, I know it's a cop out.

2. I was reading the liberal internet the other day (actually a few years ago), and some people were discussing their disgust with President Bush's wiretapping policy and the administration's appeal to the idea "if you have nothing to hide, why does privacy matter?" I suppose one could make the argument that we (as a society) conflate privacy with secrecy or security or something, but I wonder what their response would be to early Church leaders. Certainly they had a need to keep things secret from their enemies, but I think they are often labelled as aggressors hiding secret plans and not as victims trying to hide their location (or something). On the other hand, they openly suggested bribing politicians to get legislation through, so we can be sure those were different times.