Development of anonymizing Wi-Fi device mysteriously halted

I often wonder at times like this if people pre-announce what they are going to talk about in order to flush out the resistance early. You could just say, "I'm going to talk about some wireless stuff I've been working on" without any description and what not and well poof, it would show up and you talk about it and release stuff and then folks can debate on what sort of impact it has.

Of course if you did that would the government figure out how to shut down DefCon completely to prevent the potential release of something they might not like? Would the DefCon folks co-operate? It takes pretty serious stones to have a federal agent tell you "if you do this we'll throw you into a dark hole where no one will ever find you." and to answer back, "ok, let's see you try." Clearly for aaronsw that threat was a huge factor in his decision to end his life.

On the plus side, it could be that someone decided to premptively buy all rights to ProxyHam on the condition he pull it off the market and destroy all external docs and examples. Sort of a silent exit but a big payday none the less. Or maybe it will be like the Enigma rotor patent, filed in 1945 issued in 1978 after the government chose DES as the new encryption standard.

Would love to know the real story though.