As for me personally there are few thing that I find personal. If some of my e-mails to my girl friends got into the wrong hands I just think whom ever got them would get a good laugh. I don't think its good that I might have e-mail and some information flowing around but am not personally very angry about things like this.
With such a big company like AT&T I could see something like this happening. If it weren't for private foundations like the EFF corporations like AT&T would do even more harm than they already have and I really think that is a scary thought.
On top of all this AT&T letting this go on allows the government to do terrorist profiling and detain honest citizens for long periods of time. Compared to Internet security, Internet privacy is so much harder to guard against. I think keep a close look on credit cards and checking accounts its hard to know who to and know not to trust and to even know where any of your information is being router. Right now I'm in the main San Francisco Public Library and I'm pretty sure this blog is going through AT&T's system some how. This isn't anything important and there really isn't anyway to get around using them to get my blog done and this is the really scary thing about the Internet and protection from surveillance.
I'd like to change a little how I use e-mail but its very to find out how. I never send my banking accounts and things like that but not send my girlfriend e-mail about us, stuff we talk about or political feelings I have. One of those political feelings is about this but I might get locked up if I mention it on my blog. Her an I do more normal postal mail than e-mails and we still plan to especially after knowing things like this. She says she likes postal mail more and that it "means more to actually write it out rather than type it" but I do it for the comfort of know her eyes are the only ones that look it.
