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have an acquaintance who does for a living what I would best
describe as Important Work for the government. I don't get to
talk with him/her as often as I would like, but our
converstaions are always informative and entertaining when we do
get together. My friend's Important Work has to do with
Defensive Intelligence, and while my friend really can't discuss
the work, he/she can speak with enough glittering generalities
to enable one to connect the dots of what he/she talking about.
The Important Work is not something you'll read about in the
newspapers, because it's not very sexy or exciting; it basically
involves the cyberspace equivalent of moving great piles of
information from Point A to Point B and back again, sifting for
important little golden nuggets of information, like who has
been making clusters of phone calls, and why, and to whom. No
explosions, no karate, just a lot of stuff that gets played out
quietly and is never written or even