Today, I spent 20 minutes bending the ear of the person sitting next to me at dinner.

The person turned out to be the new Director of Worldwide Marketing at Microsoft for Communication Solutions. In other words, she was taking over the job of selling Microsoft Messenger and VOIP. The focus is on corporate collection of messaging data for the government. I spent 20 minutes trying to convince her that she was making V-2 rockets for the bombing of London. She got the analogy, but didn’t buy the message.

Not every 20 minutes changes the world. But I really felt like I was fulfilling some kind of destiny, to give her the message that the world would be better with MORE privacy, not less.

We’ll just have to see what happens.