[ex-Texan]

It's very real. There were numerous discussions about Escelon and other email and telephone listening posts during the Clinton years. Bubba signed an agreement with the U.K. that they would scope out conversations in the U.S. and we would listen to the U.K. Bypassing illegalities in both jurisdictions: Australia listens to the U.S. and we have acres of underground super computers listening to everybody else.

Now there are perhaps three major sub rosa operations. If you know somebody who mentions certain types of words too often, I guarantee they are on a watch list.

[D-fendr]

It would amaze a lot of folks if they knew how careless some companies are with their wireless networks. There's a lot of them out there setup by non security folks.

Wardriving in business areas is what I would worry about. In addition to personal ID theft.