History of the use of the term "tax protester"

[Judge Roy Bean]

And if you think there isn't a readily available commercial source that would make the kind of information available that any investigative body needs, just consider this one of many ventures that we actually know about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComScore

Now, consider what you do for a living and who knows what about you and your Internet "habits."

I would only say that you need to be careful where you are and from what computer network you're in when you click on various links.

And an annonymizer service is nothing more than the equivalent of the PO box of previous decades. When push comes to shove, the cold stare from the guys in the dark suits with no sense of humor they're aware of is the key to the city at an ISP.

If anyone believes these technological tools aren't being used by Federal agencies because of some altruistic adherence to the spirit of the law you really need to get a better grip on reality.

Again, information drawn from these kinds of sources may not be admissable in a prosecution, but we all have to realize the importance of intelligence and have to admit no one in their capacity of investigation and enforcement would shun them.