Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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I just don’t feel that. In fact, strategy-wise, the move would seem a pointless gesture. It might have been potentially dangerous to the internet using population of 10 years ago, but that’s long over. They design software and provide connectivity. The sophistication, elegance, and intelligence made evident by those things, are the products of internet users, not of those things or their creators/providers. And there is a new kind of privacy already in place, evolving along with the technology rather than falling prey to it.
Only for the stupid people – and there are a lot of them.
Everyone should know by now that putting anything anywhere on the Internet is equivalent to putting it everywhere.
Email passes through any number of servers on its way from sender to recipient. IM passes through the host servers (and businesses use it, unencrypted, for heaven’s sake!). Blog posts and comments live on arbitrary servers around the world. The whole mess is archived and backed-up all over the place (at least one hopes).
Expecting privacy online is silly. If you want privacy, send a letter, written in #4 pencil on cheap paper, through the mail. Or encrypt your messages, which is still far more difficult than it should be and has massive problems on the recipient side (i.e. that person can still save the unencrypted version, which totally defeats the point).