as for the question about IMs--if you are even thinking about talking about illegalities (and we all know none of us commit such crimes but are rather just a big bunch of braggers ;>). But anyway, yea, anything IM should be encrypted, logs should not be kept, and things should be kept as private as if someone would assume someone is actually seeing or reading everything; this works for things beyond law enforcement (friends, relatives, etc) and just makes sense. . . until drugs are decriminalized.
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