the following remarks were transcribed from today's live satellite broadcast from sun on object oriented technologies, hosted by john gage. in his introductory remarks, he said: I found something else that a number of you probably have read already, it's in a way relevant to this, about searching through large archives. This is John Gilmore, Sun employee number five. [Holding up to the camera last Saturday's NYT article.] This is John in his normal confrontational stance with the National Security Agency. John wanted two textbooks on cryptanalysis that were classified, then declassified briefly, then reclassified. Using good search techniques, using what Bob Kahn would call "knowledge robots" or "knowbots", objects searching for your bibliographic material on the net, John found them in a public library and that made the NSA very upset. For about three days there was a fight, this was in Saturday's New York Times, there was a fight until Tuesday of this week, yesterday, they declassified these books. So using object technology in some rough sense to pore through enormous amounts of information is a topic that may sound futuristic but it's very, very real, we think, and we'll talk about that. enjoy. peter