'Punksters, For those who missed it, the PBS show "Adam Smiths Money World" was on privacy in the information age. It spent alot of time demonstrating what was available on you if you knew where to look. It also profiled a company called "Kroll and Associates" that does big business doing Blacknet type dossiers on people and corporations. They apparently were able to trace more than 6 billion dollars of So-damm-Insanes secret bank accounts. This company supposedly does U.S. 50 mil a year in business. They also talked about the possibility of "reputation" companies reresenting your privacy interests. The big point was that privacy is drastically decreasing, and that privacy protection was a big growth industry. The unrestrained capitalism approach to the whole thing was very refreshing. Brian Williams Extropian Cypherpatriot "Cryptocosmology: Sufficently advanced communication is indistinguishable from noise." --Steve Witham "Have you ever had your phones tapped by the government? YOU WILL and the company that'll bring it to you.... AT&T" --James Speth