Well, truth be told I have always been an advertising and branding sycophant, rooted in my carefully curated and organized collection of car ads from old magazines, back when glamour and humor were part of the message and mechanism for automotive advertising.

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The government wants vendors to develop encryption software that includes a key recovery mechanism whereby the government could get access to the algorithm to decode a message for law enforcement purposes.

CNN: U.S. government to set new standard for advanced encryption

The message was repeated by Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linera, who called the DEA a "mechanism of political blackmail".

BBC: President Evo Morales on 10 March 2011

And today, I saw and heard a very simple explanation: there is, after the violence of last Wednesday and Thursday, a commitment to organic Egyptian democracy in some top quarters (notably the White House), and a commitment to a rapid technocratic transition in others (notably the Pentagon), and no capacity or mechanism to efficiently share information, forge a consensus across departments, and coordinate a message.

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