Vlad writes:

I would *die* to see an op-ed in the NYT with the subject: "economic espionage: the new bogeyman decoy after the cold war"

You might want to prepare your memorial service, then, as I recall reading editorials along these lines back around 1990, when "should the NSA be used for economic espionage?" was in the news. Not the exact title of their editorial, but the gist was that turning the NSA into a spy agency at the beck and call of Ford and Motorola is a bad idea. But if you die, Vlad, "the vznuri," at least you have seven other functioning tentacles. --Tim May Notice: Don't expect me to reply to trivial questions and complaints. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."