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I just read the NY Times article that Paul Daniel Ash found (thanks). It's not only government incompetency we have to worry about - we also have to worry about the idiot providers who cooperate unquestioningly:
F.B.I. officials blamed an “apparent miscommunication” with the unnamed Internet provider, which mistakenly turned over all the e-mail from a small e-mail domain for which it served as host.