The New York Times > Technology > You've Got Mail (and Court Says Others Can Read It) (requires free registration): "When everything is working right, an e-mail message appears to zip instantaneously from the sender to the recipient's inbox. But in reality, most messages make several momentary stops as they are processed by various computers en route to their destination.
Those short stops may make no difference to the users, but they make an enormous difference to the privacy that e-mail is accorded under federal law."
Ahh, R.I.P. privacy -- it was good while it lasted. Folks, privacy is now a thing of the past. Scientists, it is time to invent an entirely new technology upon which eavesdropping laws will take more time to enact. I guess the next thing on our list is a truly anonymous P2P-Email hybrid system. I coined it here today; watch some company steal my thunder :o(