Over the next few weeks these incidents of remote deletion happened several times. There was no fixed pattern but it tended to occur when I wrote disparagingly of the NSA. All authors expect criticism. But criticism before publication by an anonymous, divine third party is something novel. I began to leave notes for my secret reader. I tried to be polite, but irritation crept in. Once I wrote: „Good morning. I don‘t mind you reading my manuscript – you‘re doing so already – but I‘d be grateful if you don‘t delete it. Thank you.“ There was no reply.