Shoutbox

It doesn't depend on what you see as a privacy breach. Think about it logically: the risk that the things logged by the goverment (if logged at all in the first place... many stuff like this is more dictacted by paranoid people than it is based on some truth) is abused by the goverment is extremely small if not non-existant..., whereas the simple stuff people leave around all the time (and I'm talking about passwords and even simply emails for example) can easly be abused by people who do not care about the law.

Again, what on earth is so bad about the goverment knowing that you've chatted 2 hous with that girl? A goverment who needs to stick to the law and which will stick to the law...

I think, in all honesty, that the stuff you leave around and/or throw away, which is accessable by anybody and which can reveal a hell of a lot is extremely more riskier than that. And this 'system' is used by burgulars, thiefs, hackers, all the time, just because it is that easy and just because everybody thinks as if it is minor and no much can be done with it....

They who are concearned about their chat being logged (which nobody ever even wants to read in all honesty), should better worry about what they throw away each day or leave around in their handcases when they go to school or work or whatever... eg: I have found more than once ID cards, and even credit cards in the street, lost by somebody. While I have never been able to break in into one of Microsofts thousands mainframes which supposidly contain the chatlog of my friend.

IMHO, a 15 year old being worried about the big brother goverment watching how he tries to chat up with that girl, is just stupid and only the result of this extremely paranoid information age, watching too much conspiricy movies, etc.

I don't care if my ISP logs my chats, there is nothing of any importance in it, I'm not a terrorsit or whatever. And I do trust them to handle that data with care (if they handle it all that is). But I do care very much if my email is showed to strangers because that can extremely easy be abused for all sorts of things by people who do not follow the laws.