Hmm. Well, I wonder if that would cover 'DCC' chat. I know that phone line monitoring has been in effect since the 80's. Supposedly anytime you say the word "bomb" or anything of the like it gets logged and someone listen's to it eventually. Maybe its total BS but it is possible by all means. I see that this "technology" could waste lots of FBI and CIA resources. So, some kid gets on mIRC, spouts himself as a terrorist, lays out his super-wow plans. Terroist is really a 13 year old attention starved kid from Brazil. Big catch. Yep, go CIA. I see many false alarms with this. I don't think Osama Bin Laden will be chatting it up on DALnet about his future plans, so like the correct expresion may be: Hey CIA, put down the confiscated dope your smokin, get in your little cars, and go do some real police work, your not going to find anything on IRC besides script kiddies. [/rant]