Thankfully, Pete Jones for myself, I learned to give up any
   illusion of Privacy online years ago. The final nail in the
   coffin for any illusion of privacy was on February 12, 2001,
   when Google acquired the Usenet archives and all the crap I
   posted on Usenet since 1990 was available from a SEARCH BOX. I
   was pissed. Really pissed. My childhood was over and the
   playground that I thought was the net where I could say whatever
   I wanted was over. So, I had them kill whatever posts I didn't
   want my mother to see (there was about 120 or so) and once the
   last one was gone, so was all my illusions of privacy. Took
   about five days to come to terms with the shift in thinking.
   Now, 14 years later, I just say whatever I feel like and could
   care less who is watching or collecting my data. I just feel
   sorry for people who believe they have privacy. Can't be helped
   though; marketing gimmicks like "security" "privacy" are touted
   all over the place, but they're not true. They were never true,
   at least in the case of the 'net. I should've known better too.
   Store and forward. That's what the 'net does. Store and forward.
   If it gets stored... which means copied to ANY other computer in
   the chain that leads from one computer to another, there's no
   privacy. All that encryption stuff is laughable honestly smile
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