I don't think encryption will go unnoticed for very long, one doesn't have to have a very high IQ to understand that secrecy is important, and that encruption is a technology which will help keep things secret. In Escobar's case, the thing to do would perhaps have been to hide an encrypted data stream in a normal-sounding conversation? This would be harder to detect for the authorities. The data would probably be text which would require much less bandwith than voice. Notice how our Prez referred to the killing of these two men as heroic and brave? It was two against THOUSANDS, I'm sure they shot him to pieces. :-) (No, I don't think drug use is anything but destructive but it's easy to see that TPTB speak with two (more more) tounges.) - Frode