I want a pose something for everyone as a new technology. I have no idea if it has been dreamed up before or if it's possible to do... Here goes: Most people communicate by modems if they're accessing the internet from home unless they're rich or just have the right connections (no pun intended). Anyway, could one create a new line of modems that could effectively and efficiently variate modem speeds to disuade people from trying to pick up any modem transmissions by say a local telephone company inorder to keep them from synchronzing data speeds. I know modems sometimes lose some speed, but for the most part they transmit at stable rates.. Am I completely paranoid about this or am I just going off the wall??? I was just reading this article about Telco Snooping that my friend forwarded to me off the NirvanNet... I'll put it up here if no one has seen it... Aaron -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=- YABBS - telnet phred.pc.cc.cmu.edu 8888 -=- -=- -=- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=