Hi Lindy,

Yes...technological secrets are the most fleeting and eventually the private sector uses them. I am under no illusions that much of the present technology is not misused and applied for selfish or immoral purposes.

This world is a 'hell world' - and I mean that in the nicest way ;-)

When you have six billion folks running around with self-motivated goals and actions - you are going to see a lot of evil.

Of course evil is relative and so 5.95 billion of these same folks are NOT evil - by their OWN standards. The other .05 billion know they are doing wrong ;-)

So the aborigine who has his neighbors for dinner - literally - is not as evil as the psychopaths who cannibalize folks in modern society. Why?

Simply because one is pursuing a course which he knows is extremely negative and the other is simply following long ignorant habits and rituals.

So to any advanced folks who understand this important difference and the all-important understanding of evil and relativity - see this world as a 'learning ground' - a hell world where selfishness and chaos reign.

A world in which there is no absolutes - no good, no evil - only the relative proposition of varying limited intelligences interfacing with each other and their environment.

Privacy is a comforting illusion which allows us a certain peace of mind. However in this universe we cannot extract ourselves in any manner and so we must always remain fundamentally integral to the whole. Privacy then is relative as well.

I am not a fan of the brain wave devices as I know they open cans of worms best left unopened. These worms are bait for unsavory endusers.

However I have much faith int he human mind and in quantized consciousness. Our minds are much more developed than any device and eventually science and the government will realize that.

THe brain is the least understood and most underdeveloped part of the human body.

Technology will probe, monitor, replicate, transmit, integrate and transfer - but it can't compare to consciousness and its quantized link to higher and higher spectra.

When Echelon and Carnivore become outmoded - and they will - there will always be others. Phone lines were tapped since the phone service was formed. Letters have been steamed open and keyholes have been peeked through.

As humanity gets inherently lazier and technology must perform the spying - people may actually be more private - as these things slowly cripple the folks who use them.

Reliance upon satellite imagery or wiretaps crippled our middle east presence. We have few agents capable of speaking arabic or turkish and blending in with any terrorist caps run by Bin Laden, etc.

And make no doubt about it - technology IS to blame.

So perhaps privacy will bounce back - as society becomes more inert and numbed to the whole thing.

Best wishes,

SDAI-Tech1