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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (137673)	7/22/2012 10:59:14 PM
From: Stock Puppy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 213182

The operative rule of thumb is clear IMO - if you're on the net, and not manually doing your own encryption, you aren't communicating in private, no matter what the user agreement or privacy policy says. Very true (privacy) Same as to your emails. Unless encrypted, it's possible to intercept. After all it's clear text and resides in its journeys on many computers along the way - anyone with access to any computer in the path can make copies and find out about your toenail fungus email that you thought was private and they can send to your mother who will then call you scold you about not drying properly. Back in the old days (late 1980's) you needed to know the so called "bang path" route that your email should take to get to its destination and thus you knew what computers it went through. For the younguns here, That's like "Trace route" except you're actively telling it where and how to go. "bang path" because the elements of the address were separated by ... Bangs (\!) And even though Email can be intercepted, even an encrypted email can be compromised in time and/or computing power so that encrypted picture of yourself when you were a baby and got into that box of Godiva chocolates that you thought was so private eventually ends up on Facebook if someone deems worthwhile.