| Nope, it's da truth. :-) I'm not doing this out of paranoia. I'm | learning about this incase the police state comes anytime soon. It's | far better to learn about it before than after it's too late. When the police state arrives, doing any of the thigns mentioned here will be cause for arrest. If you didn't have anything to hide, you'd be cooperating with the police, and writing all your mail on post cards. If you want to hide, build deep underground, preferably in hard, mineral bearing rock, like the bottom of a mine shaft. Most of the means of survelience in use rely on thin walls, windows, or easy access for black bagging. Of course, make sure you have plenty of food and water, and multiple lines of communication out. Also, old mine shafts have been known to collapse when the BATF is around. Fighting a police state is much easier before it arrives. Adam -- Adam Shostack adam@bwh.harvard.edu Politics. From the greek "poly," meaning many, and ticks, a small, annoying bloodsucker.