Indeed, if the files you want can find their way to your computer, so can the feds. They have years of experience in tracking people via 'anonymous' links and multiple back doors, through numerous countries.

If Big Bro doesn't know something about you, it's only because he hasn't been interested. Most people would be dumbfounded if they knew how much BB already knows about each of us common folk.

Prior to '89, I was asking, "Do you think the KGB has info on virtually each person in the Soviet Union? Do you think the FBI has equal or better funding than the KGB? Do you remember JE Hoover saying, 'A file on everyone'? So what makes you think the FBI (or Treasury) doesn't know about you?"

It's thirty years later, the FBI budget grows, and data storage gets cheaper. The US even has it's own gulag! And the President now has the power to declare anyone a 'terrorist'. Meanwhile, we're distracted by new rules, intended to 'protect us'. In Israel, where they have legitimate concerns about terrorists, airline passengers are not required to remove their shoes, and they can carry liquids on-board. (Even our Sec for Homeland Security says those measures do not offer us any protection; but the rules remain in place.) Oh well, I guess we should be happy that the 'shoe bomber' didn't instead have the fuse sticking out his rear; pre-flight check-in would take on a whole new meaning.

I've known Bob Mueller (current FBI Dir) since he was a Fed prosecutor in San Francisco. He's a pretty nice guy, and highly intelligent, but I would not even ask him if p-p could ever somehow be tied to domestic terrorism. If that happened, even the RIAA would seem like a bunch of nice guys.

"What are you in for?"
"Threatening the security of the US - I seeded a video of Lady Gaga."