I am sure that this applies to nobody who posted in this thread so far with the possible exception of tel, but the apathy of your average american irritates me sometimes. people who don't exercise there democratic right to vote give up their right to whinge. I get frustrated when i see Americans going to war to promote "freedom and democracy" when most Americans don't actually participate in their democracy.

reading between the lines on that article though it is the stored email that they are after not one that is in the process of being transmitted and they would still need a subpeona to get them. that being the case if you want your emails to be secure delete them after they are sent! oh and remember about that reasonable expectation of privacy thing at the moment your isp and whoever manages your email client can read your emails (not that they have time to) but what they are saying is if "anyone" can already do it then we are not infringing on existing rights. With the volume of email going around today it is highly unlickely that the government would "snoop" all emails, so we are back to the why do they have cause to look and they still need to subpeona the records.