Depends on how much time a person spends on this durn WWW. As a computer tech I spend hours on end
visiting many different sites - downloading programs - utilities - drivers etc. The more a person hangs himself out there the more vunerable they become to all kinds of malicious chicanery (sp?) such as identity theft and credit card fraud. It also invites things like spam to merely post your e-mail address at these sites. (depending on your isp). With that said, most Techs, IT guys, geeks etc. that I know just make it a habit to limit what they put out in the way of private info. Of course there is also the case to be made for plain old privacy. Problem is...every e-mail sent goes thru an FBI/NSA super computer that looks for key words and certain types of activity. It then filters out what it wants and supposedly someone reviews it. Truth is that for the most part there aint enough spooks on the planet to review all the spooge going back and forth on the net today. Let alone make some kind of intelligent decisions as to what to do next with it. So they are concentrating their efforts in keeping an eye on our Arabian friends.I 'm all for this of course. This is what they should be doing anyway...instead of reading e-mails about carp and bluegills. A good hacker on the other hand can access most computers regardless of how hard you try to prevent it. DON'T STORE ANY INFO ON YOUR COMPUTER THAT YOU FEEL MUST BE KEPT SECURE!!!! IT ISN'T!