To follow up the GNN report on Net espionage and NSA sniffing: For a quick overview of the prime sites for sniffing, see the informative map of the major US NAP's, routers and interconnections at: http://www.cerf.net/cerfnet/about/interconnects.html MAE-East, MAE-West, MAE-Chicago and others are detailed at: http://www.mfsdatanet.com:80/MAE/ AltaVista offers more about the Routing Arbiter project - - for examples, www.ra.net; rrdb.ra.net; rrdb.merit.edu; isi.com -- as well as about FIX-East and FIX-West, various NAP's and the international exchanges and routers. Is there technology for eluding these espionage-enabled chokepoints -- tunneling, satellite-richochet or otherwise? The newly announced Planet 1 personal satellite phone system, $2,500 a unit, could it provide secure privacy off the heirarchical telecomm throttle? Or, are all options slowly being shutdown by regulated greed?