by the way...

For those who believe "the NSA can do ANYTHING" or some such, an article in the New York Times claims the annual black budget now seems to be hovering around $28 Billion per year, for ALL secret government work. All the spy planes, CIA bribes, etc, come out of that pool. Its a lot of money, but not enough to pay for really outlandish things, like disk drives the size of Seattle to store exhaustive listings of all possible DES encryptions. Perry