Governments or whoever, can do all they want to make their collection of dossiers bulge even bigger than they are. But, these dossiers are only data sets. Data isn't quite the same os information. Information isn't quite the same as knowledge. Knowledge isn't quite the same as understanding. And understanding the situation has not been, historically, enough to ensure that government (or whoever) decision makers make the "right" decision. Let the internal security apparatchiks spin the bottle all they want. They couldn't keep Rome from falling, nor the Byzantine Empire, nor the Ottoman Sultanate. They couldn't keep the Third Reich in place for a thousand years. They couldn't keep the Soviet Union glued together by force nor dirty persuasion nor extortionate non-economics. The FBI can run, but it can't hide. Alan Horowitz alanh@infi.net