I know Declan personally; he's a long-time libertarian reporter on all things cyberspace (in prior jobs he's worked for Wired News, Time's Netly News, and others). I don't know if he reads Flyertalk, but the fact is he hardly needs to because he's hard-wired into many of the groups protesting against the scanners (EPIC, ACLU, EFF, etc), and his history in online activism goes all the way back to the early 1990s. I doubt there's much in the online zeitgeist that passes him by even without the help of a neatly condensed forum like this one.

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