At 02:21 PM 3/30/01 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42745,00.html Secret Service Raids E-Gold by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com) 11:10 a.m. Mar. 30, 2001 PST WASHINGTON -- The Secret Service has raided a New York state business that exchanged dollars for grams of the digital currency called e-gold. A bevy of agents from the Secret Service, Postal Service and local police recently detained the owners of Gold-Age, based in Syracuse, and seized computers, files and documents from the fledgling firm. Let this be a lesson to those operating such legal but controversial services that they keep all important records off site and use offshore systems to process and store data related to their transactions. This way seizures of equipment become only a minor annoyance. ks Free, encrypted, secure Web-based email at www.hushmail.com