Lasers DO accomplish one task. They force the interceptor to commit vulnerable forces to the attack. It's pretty damn hard to get into room 24Z6 @ the Fort & prove that they are working on YOUR text -- snatched in a phonetap. It's a lot easier to catch the two guys on a bucket truck, or the Feebs doing a black bag job on Ames' PC. That's exactly why TPTB prefer Option A, the FBI wiretap act, to B. But a more interesting question, maybe for Brian. How DO the wiretap laws treat non common-carrier communications -- be it YOUR wire strung from Tom to Jerry's house, or such? And where does the FCC authority stop, and whoever regulates laser-safety start? I vaguely recall that some BBC competitor was going to use the wavelength loophole to get around the Beeb's monopoly... so the Crown immediately raised the bar up to the gamma ray level or such. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433