Norm Cramer said: >fact is, that nothing is really secure and the only defence we have is to >make it as hard as possible to reverse engineer the device. > The best defence is agility. One entrepeneur can generate new product ideas and get them to market faster than most big companies can form a committee to study the problem. The big boys can waste legal firepower appropriating your latest flash of genius, but tomorrow you'll have another one, and the old one will be obsolete. In the end, it'll be more economical for them to hire you as a consultant. Reg Neale