I hate to break up this wonderful group hug of comments about the threat of government programs like Carnivore and the loss of privacy on the Internet, but I have to remind everyone that if you think you are important enough that the government has chosen to read your email from the billions that are sent across the world each day, then you are delusional. Also, everyone seems to forget that revealing information captured by Carnivore had to go through court approval first. Unfortunately the FBI's penchant for secrecy with programs like these only cause the hysteria of postings like those above to proliferate.
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I hate to break up this wonderful group hug of comments about the threat of government programs like Carnivore and the loss of privacy on the Internet, but I have to remind everyone that if you think you are important enough that the government has chosen to read your email from the billions that are sent across the world each day, then you are delusional. Also, everyone seems to forget that revealing information captured by Carnivore had to go through court approval first. Unfortunately the FBI's penchant for secrecy with programs like these only cause the hysteria of postings like those above to proliferate.