On my Thursday flight to the tenth Hackers on Planet Earth convention, half-asleep and writing my part for the Project PM panel, I wondered what this article—which I’m writing on the plane back—would report. Ladar and Watt’s panel seemed an overdone propaganda/marketing campaign designed to sell a somewhat skeptical HOPE X audience that 1) they’ve got the security-vs-convenience near-inverse relationship hacked and 2) that they’re not going to call Dark Mail “perfect security,” a promise which media reports appear to be bearing out. Douglas Lucas is a writer, journalist, researcher, and activist most known for covering jailed journalist Barrett Brown’s case and, as part of an investigative partnership with WikiLeaks, turning Stratfor emails into U.S.­Mexico drug war articles.