The bunch I game with had its beginnings in the University of New South Wales nearly thirty years ago. Many years ago, one of the sub-groups was in a spies'n'mercenaries-style campaign and, in one scenario, was trying to "de-stabilize" a foreign government. The Players had an extended brainstorm and planning session which, for reasons unclear to me, mutated into an extended round of "How could we overthrow the NSW Government?". It is worth noting that a couple of groupmembers were members of the Defense Force Reserves, one worked in the railways, and a few others were in various branches of the State Public Service. More innocent times, of course, but these guys worked up a lengthy list of vulnerabilties within the Sydney metropolitan area. Such as the ease with which railways and certain utilities could be knocked out, the level of security around the Army's main armouries, and so on, and so on. All of which added up to "... OK, maybe we can't take over the Government for sure, but we'd have a good try and WOULD make life b###dy hard for them ...". The really funny thing is that, while nobody knew it until later, there was one new guy there who worked for the Australian Federal Police (our equivalent of the FBI). He was studying for a degree at UNSW, and had been asked by his superiors to also report on some of the groups there. Thankfully, he had sense enough to understand what was going on, and made a lot of notes about what had been turned up. This became the focus of an especially interesting report to his superiors, which led to many of the vulnerabilities talked about being fixed up very quickly indeed. Postscript: Years later, the AFP guy was still a gamer, and remained on friendly terms with various members of that group. Just before the Sydney Olympics, he did the rounds of various individuals and groups to find out any other vulnerabilities and problems. He picked up enough data this way for another report and security shake-up. ***** Thinking about all the stuff that gamers and SF fans routinely talk via phone and e-mail, or google, or mention on 'Net forums, any spook trying to sift through all this would probably end up banging his/her head on the desktop.