At the gathering in the Sierras I mentioned, there were many interesting things revealed. One was a map of thousands of "open" communications channels over wireless links, e.g., 802.11b--just in the Bay Area. In use by government agencies, even security firms doing police state work. It was interesting to see what a Yagi antenna mounted in a truck or on a good hilltop could do for harvesting tens of thousands of passphrases and slurping down gigabytes of files. The government agencies are filled with incompetents. --Tim May, Occupied America "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.