Hi guys..... I'm new here and I don't have the same technical expertise as I am witnessing with most of the other posters here. I do have a question and I hope that it is not too technically naive. I have followed the ongoing discussion on PGP security, remailers and the like. I am wondering if the current trend with interactive Web browsing, Java, etc, is not going to create a privacy problem every bit as significant as insecure e-mail. As these "applets" become more sophisticated are we not going to have to face up to the issue of dynamic links to web sites that gather a lot of info from your computer as you interact with it? The recent controversy at Microsoft indicates to me that interactive Web applets could easily be programmed with hidden "siphon hoses" that are quitely sucking data from you while you look at the latest Baywatch poses. I am not a programer so I don't know how it would work. It just seems to me that it would not be that tall an order to accomplish. Correct me if I am wrong. My question is this: Would it be possible to create a web site that would function along the same lines as remailers do? Something that would allow a person to browse anonymously. So lets say I surfed into a Interactive Web site that has some kind of Java applet for......say portfolio projections..... Any personal financial info I dumped into it for analysis sake could be collected by the server for some kind of customer profile. Lets say that I didn't want sensitive financial info exposed to someone else without my knowledge. So then I would log into a "Re-Webber" that would allow me to continue on to the subject site with any electronic signature following back to the anonymous Web, not back to me. Another example that this would be a concern would be in the coming explosion of Bank oriented services that are coming available. A "Re-Web" would let you use applets on a Bank server without the concern that the Bank is gathering MORE sensitive info on you. Forgive me if this technically naive. I admit I don't know what I am talking about. It was something that piqued my curiosity as I was reading various posts about e-mail security. Doug dwhite@pris.bc.ca