David wrote:

Big Brother would like each home to have broadband.


Yes. The TCP-IP business makes tracing all your communications much easier.
Your fingerprint is on everything coming and going. With shortwave, they
don't know who the listeners are. Only troublemakers listen to shortwave,
right? Eliminate the medium by effectively jamming it via 'inadvertant'
interference.

There is a major problem with powerline transmission anyway. If the lines go
down, you lose more than the power. With people increasing using telephones
over the net (easily traceable/monitored via the packets with NO court
decree needed) they will lose that too.

Too many eggs in one very public basket.




mike