Dear Sir, Sunder Wrote:

You seem to think these guys are actually super spies, not clueless overpaid (for their level of skills) bored burrowcrats working on an assembly line. You're over estimating their abilities by at least four orders of magnitude there.

Through the *magic* of taxation and government contracts the opponents you are so casually dismissing as dull-witted drones are your peers. So unless you really are smarter than everyone else I would say that your above statement is rash. If the motivation to snoop is strong enough the resources will be put into place by the current crop of ground-dwelling representatives and any imaginable technology could be applied to the *problem*. I doubt in this case, at this time, that the motivation is enough to pay for a database of EMI analyses of PC bootups. Mike I found this one interesting: http://www.jya.com/fbi-en7898.htm Our elected representatives probably believe this official-looking analysis more than they do mere citizen's opinions. I have LOTS of copper materials. I have a source for conductive paints. Could you suggest a good source for ferrites in powder and tile form? All this to insure my privacy whilst I compute in my own house! The snoopers have, by their very existence, a chilling effect on speech.