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A recent federal ruling clearing a rare-book dealer could make it legal for e-mail and phone service providers to read customers' e-mail or listen to their voicemail messages. News analysis by Kim Zetter. [Wired News: Top Stories]

In yet another unprecedented outburst of stupidity, this clearly illegal maneuver has been approved by the court! Fantastic, now every untrustworthy company like MSN's Hotmail will have a field day reading their users' e-mails; as if sending you a whole sleuth of cookies that never expire every time you log onto hotmail is not bad enough. Nevertheless, let the common people of e-mail take heed and equip yourselves with at least the minuscule sense of security that PGP offers: GNUPG.org