You know,
I know no one ever visits this site but these spam comments are annoying. Don’t people have better things to do than create these stupid bots or spiders or whatever that leave these comments. It’s just, ugh. I’m off to try and find a solution in wordPress that will thwart these spam comments. 
Yeah… Don’t ask.
Anyways - I came across this article today on TheWhir about E-mail monitoring and it kind of creeped me out. I know any e-mails sent to public entities or within a business are actually public but your own private e-mails with no due process? Now, I’m all for squashing terrorist, hanging pedophiles (Hard Candy anyone?), and fighting crime any way possible…and I know I know… that whole argument of “If you’re not doing anything wrong then you have nothing to worry about” or “Why do you care if you have nothing to hide” while true in most respects, in this case it’s not that people have something to hide, it’s that our e-mails are, well, private. I would generally have no problem with this but look who is enforcing this… people. People, no matter what status, race, age, religion, can be lying backstabbing black mailing SOB’s and mishandle authority. It’s called corruption and no matter where you go, it will follow, the question is do you want your private e-mails, whether sultry love letters, new business ideas, BIG business ideas, being apart of that? Having someone be allowed to peer in to my personal affairs when they feel like it just doesn’t sit well with me. This is assuming that the
TeliaSonera and Google Inc. (google.com) have called the law the most extensive eavesdropping plan in Europe, comparing it to surveillance powers authorized in the US.
statement is true. Eavesdropping to me is someone snooping without you knowing. I believe the US still has hoops to jump through before it can eavesdrop on us common folk and peer into our private e-mails (once again, not the e-mails to public entities or business e-mails which are public).
Does any of this make sense? What is your opinion on this? I’d love to hear, well read, your point of view.