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To: TobagoJack who wrote (56990)	12/7/2004 1:37:09 AM
From: Taikun	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Jay, You make me laugh. Where do I start? I suppose the fear du jour is getting my computer strengthened up after I discovered I had a Trojan. I thought I was pretty good, using Zone Alarm, Spybot, Adaware, Norton Antivirus and the Firewall in my Linksys router. I regularly went to this website: grc.com to ensure my computer was secure (I have always been 100% 'stealth' mode, as should anyone who does any transactions online) I guess the little beasts can sneak if in you visit a bad website or download something with them attached. I think one day there will be a very big scam, as I read the Russian mafia has made hacing financial websites their number one priority. Is the login screen at your broker really their login screen? Who knows? I know of some people who only cut and paste their passwords off a text file document they keep in an encrypted file which they open when they want to trade etc. They keep the encryption key in a pen drive (which begs the question what happens if you lose the pen drive, ha ha). I downloaded PGP, read the User Guide, and somehow locked up my 'test' drive making it 'inaccessible'. All I can say is it isn't user friendly (but PGP is what the 911 hijackers used) but I plan to use PGP for emails, making clean deletes and encrypting drives from now on. All I can say is computer security must be one heck of a cash cow for some of these folks! D PS Like you, I have all this physical gold in Comex-approxed bullion bars and coins. The ask on a Dec 08 $450 Put is $32 and I'm trying to figure out if I need some and if so how much of my physical position I want to protect.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (56990)	12/7/2004 1:47:33 AM
From: Taikun	Respond to of 74559

Jay, I read that the Indian Rupee is beginning to break out. Traders had thought the CB had wanted a peg, but apparently people thought there were targets at 45 and it has gone past that. While the Yuan gets the spotlight perhaps the Rupiah will get the action until the Yuan peg comes off (or it gets pegged to a basket)? In any event, there now seems to be a fair amount of bullish sentiment that way. finance.yahoo.com My fx broker, Cambridgefx, has a pretty high minimum for buying INR, though, so I may not play. D