The winter edition of this bi-monthly has an amusing article, pg 54-58, about how orgnaized crime is getting more organized with modern technology. Cases in point: * A Queens, NY bookie operation doing $65 million per year busted by taping the their faxes and decoding their hard drives at least one of which had a menchman's mother's name as the password. * Cali cartels using up-to-date data management, encryption and SIGINT methods. A CIA quote, "...the level of sophistication of the Cali cartel was about at the level of the KGB when the Soviet Union fell apart." * According to the article the cost of 'scrubbing' money costs about $0.20 on the dollar in volume. * The European Union Bank is mentioned as a possible safe haven for laundering. Among the criminal's tools of the trade, cell phones, scanners and PGP. -- Steve