MY OPIONION, not intended as a tirade, but it seems to have come out that way, upon rereading. I'm posting anyway, but with this caveat.

Nobody should be thinking of computers as private. They are more like bulletin boards - they don't give anything away unless you look at them, at which point they reveal--everything. Anything I post anywhere, here or elsewhere, if it's on the Internet I assume it's PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE. That includes my personal emails to my personal friends. Don't put anything into your keystrokes you wouldn't want to come back to haunt you, is my motto.

But I also believe privacy to be a fad and unnecessary to a great degree, but then again I grew up in the Third World. Privacy is a luxury, and as such seems precious and worthwhile, but it's a question of supply and demand. I think privacy has good marketing, but not necessarily a good product.

Which is not to say that there aren't things I'd rather everyone not know, and I do make efforts to have those boundaries respected, and I mind when they are crossed. But that's a 3D thing to me - if I put it on the Net somewhere, and it got out, I would be upset, but I'd blame myself, not the Net.