Responding to msg by perry@piermont.com ("Perry E. Metzger") on Sun, 05 Nov 12:13 PM

Quit looking for the spooks where they aren't. You should always assume your line is being tapped if you are saying something you don't want heard, anway.

True, it's not Smokey behind the billboard, blinked at you by oncoming headlights, it's the sensors in the roadbed that reads your tag -- when it leaves your home-ain, then at the remailer donkeystops, then at your recreational stash-house, at the pedo-filmery, at the Semtex-Pantex workhide, at the digi-wallet-copyfast, right into ananonymous Ken-Barbie's e-slot. TLA-Smokey is friendly, maybe intra-humanly let you off with a warning, not the anonymous high-techery, it responds only to its friend, the tag -- tracing, storing, mutating the whinefleshers, 0's by 1's. That's the how, maybe, but for who or what or why? Or is it just machines feeding machines incomprehensibles?