Signing the Official Secrets Act is just an adminstrative tick in the box exercise. Everyone is bound by the act whether you have signed it or not. Signing is just an easy way for 'management' to prove that you knew you shouldn't have leaked to the press or sold the information to the Russians. The trouble is that bloggers are seen by many to just be another of a sub-set of geeks so few people on the outside are that fussed over the trampling of them. It might be possible to boycott some organisations which restrict blogging (eg Argos) but this might not work with hospitals and police forces :-) Cheers Mark