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I really worry about the generation behind the boomers; the ones growing up on the technology and so in love with every gizmo and gadget that comes down Madison Avenue that they can't see the downside. And with everthing these days, there's a downside it seems.

No, kiddies, the President of the United States cannot communicate via personal email or his/her Blackberry or Strawberry or any other cutesly cartoon gizmo that may be all the rage at the moment.

The generation behind seems too content for my taste to keep selling off whole pieces of their privacy, including circulating nude photos of themselves via cell phone, email, youtube, myspace, facebook, and mememe.com (note: that one doesn't really exist yet I don't think).

Personal expression has trumped decency, taste, and privacy.

Obama supported immunity for the telecoms over FISA. So surely he has nothing to hide...

Hasn't our military spent all this money and time developing super strong encryption techniques? They can't roll that out to provide in-house data/phone services for Govt. use? I don't get it. Sure, it doesn't make sense for high level officials to be using corporate data/phone services. But they need some kind of solution other than RNC servers or 1980s methods.

Who's being punished for looking at mine? Maybe these Verizon employees can petition for retroactive immunity.

Maybe the RNC would be kind enough to give him an email account on their server. That way, he too could dodge the Presidential Records Act.

Besides the criminal hacking of Sarah Palin's private e-mail, there was the highly suspicious use of State of Ohio computers to look up confidential material on Joe Wurzelbacher, by the director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, Helen Jones-Kelly, who also happens to be a Democrat and an Obama supporter. The Ohio Inspector General is investigating.

Of all three incidents, the viewing of Obama's private telephone records by Verizon employees appears to be the least supicious and the least likely to lead to criminal charges. Unlike the Palin and Wurzelbacher matters, there was no illegal disclosure of confidential material to third parties.