Last time I spoke to him, he was getting really into researching traffic-analysis/conspiracy-detection systems (of the sort that could be used to pick out al-Qaeda members from phone dialling records and such)
I'll confess to the anarchist nutter tag, but Alex is right about the paranoid bit - I don't write the news, just report it.
I would suggest that if one isn't just a little paranoid, one isn't paying attention.
Oi, Alex's a mate! 'Paranoid-anarchist-nutter' he's not, but by god he's covered a few. Wonder how poor old Proff is these days...