In the composition of my last message, I was thinking in the back of my mind about how we could foment an information privacy crisis. This could very well be a Good Thing, a societal hack to serve as a wake- up call. At the HOPE conference, there was someone selling CD-ROMs of the DMV records for Oregon for $125. The same folks promise to add more states soon: next in line is Texas. Perhaps one could generate a privacy crisis by collecting that information and conducting a mass mailing to every person in the database: "we have this information on you. So could anybody with $125. Call your congress critter and complain." Some people don't consider their DMV records critical -- so perhaps a mailing from a company of their credit history would open their eyes (More effort than the $125 + postage, but probably a better yield). It's just a thought and it would require some amount of time & money, but it's a doable hack with finite resources. Thoughts? Is this totally off the wall, or do y'all think that somebody with a small but not tiny amount of money would be into doing this? -- L. Todd Masco | "Large prime numbers imply arrest." - Previously meaningless cactus@bb.com | grammatically correct sentence. Now...