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Everything with Tom was always a time crunch. He's going to have to slow down someday, Nancy thought. Must be the nature of the beast in the newspaper game.Nancy got Spike's attention with a short message and proceeded to fill him in on the call from Tom. "I agree with you Nancy," he said. "For the government to assume control of the net they would have to declare a state of emergency. The commercial disruption would be so great, they'd better have a good reason if they do it. We would have to be under some kind of national security threat." "Do you think there could be such a threat now?" "I can't afford to wonder. I have to find out if I need to relocate outside the country and if so where. I can get out quickly through any of thousands of routes. But if they're preparing to secure the net domestically, they'll have to be planning to block those routes as rapidly as they can. First with software and then physical disconnection. What I don't know is how far they can get before I even notice they've started." "Spike let's find out where we really stand before we get any more worked up. I still don't believe the scenario we're working from." "Agreed. But I don't want you to talk to anyone about it yet. If something is up, we don't need to call attention to ourselves. I think we need to do some quiet investigation first." "You mean breaking into government systems and going through their files!? I could never do something like that! I'm not going to have any part of..." "And I wouldn't ask you to Nancy. I won't be gone long. I'll do some quick sniffing around and be back in an hour or so. I'll go straight to the e-mail files and archives. Nothing stashed too deep. They'll never know I was there." "Spike it's against the law." "I'm not sure how those laws apply to me. And I'm willing to interpret them a little loosely since I know I'm not abusing the information I obtain. Plus, it's a matter of my own survival. I can't count on them to protect me so I have to do it myself." "Obviously, I'm not going to talk you out of this. Please be careful for yourself and be careful of our site address. Make sure they can't tell where you came from if they do catch on." "Thank you for the refresher course in the basics. See you soon."
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