-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 12:58 PM +0800 11/16/07, CyberFrontier Group wrote:

Does this basically mean that any lowly Magistrate can issue a forfeiture warrant for anywhere in the USA?

Yes. It's illegal in Cambridge to smoke in Boston, as the old joke went, before it became actual fact. Remember the guy who was extradited to Kentucky for his porn server in California. Tim May used to say that national borders are mere speedbumps on the information superhighway, but the fact is that exponentially growing and geodesic internetworks, coupled with exponentially increasing legislation (judicial, extralegal and otherwise), make everything illegal everywhere all the time. Add that to: 1.) the collision of identity-based transactions with the business necessity for instantaneous transactions resulting in the possibility of the instantaneous theft of all an identity's assets, 2.) the explosion of intellectual "property" legislation (infinite copyright, and the logical necessity to grant patents to any behavior that can be reduced to software), and we live in a very Chinese definition of "interesting times". Cheers, RAH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.0.6 (Build 6060) iQA/AwUBRz2ssMPxH8jf3ohaEQLu3wCfa9bIG+Isn8iBvN61nKFxeBjybc0AoPUl YC1OI3IQXIv+uGhcFQvXBTF9 =ym1v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'