3. A ban will eventually be lifted, because of the impracticality of GAK, abuses, wide-spread security problems caused by added complexity or hackers stealing the master keys, ineffectiveness, sympathetic courts etc. The sooner it comes into effect, the sooner it goes away.

But eventually could be 2047 (or 2097)... I'm 40 now. I'd like to live to see the day. This situation starts to unpleasantly remind me of Heinlein's "If This Goes On...". ========================================================== Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN "Their walls are built of cannon balls, their motto is 'Don't Tread on Me'"