They are known for letting in warrantless searches on all their customers data, comcast is some sort in a strange position, they have huge debt and they need to have as much help from washingto, wall street and hollywood as they can get, in so they provide some "friendly" ways to make everybody happy, such as hiring politicians family members, foraging politics with extensive lobbying, permitting warrantless monitoring of their customers, blocking protocols that hollywood does not like, et cetera. I'm not an English native speaker either, forgive me for the slang there. On 2/11/13, Peter Lothberg <roll at stupi.se> wrote: a front end in the pockets of obscure washington DC moves I'm not a english speaker, please explain. -P