cooking up the offense like he's cooking ravioli

I was reading a book last night by some lawyer and he said:

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    <p>The transmission of email usually doesn&#8217;t jeopardize confidentiality, because each message is broken into packets of information and reassembled at the delivery point, making it difficult to intercept.</p>
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<p>He went on to say that the &#8220;scary&#8221; part of email is storage. Meaning that if you are afraid someone is going to read your email, you need to protect your inbox because that is where the &#8220;theft&#8221; is going to occur.</p>

<p>I laughed out loud when I read this because I don&#8217;t think he could be more wrong about email. To me, the scary thing about email is that, just as he says, &#8220;each message is broken into packets of information and reassembled at the delivery point.&#8221; Each packet travels as part of the whole across the internet for anyone to see. Of course you may say to yourself, I have never seen anyones email packets traveling across the internet. Let me promise you this: some has seen your packets! The delivery of email is similar to asking different people you don&#8217;t know to deliver a book to your friend (which they don&#8217;t know where he is) one page at a time. Along their journey to deliver the page, they would stop and ask people, &#8220;Is this page destined to you? Do you know where I can find the final destination.&#8221; In addition, the <a href='http://www.courier-mta.org/'>courier</a> would let anyone along the road read it that wanted to.</p>

<p>I am much more worried about someone along the road stopping and reading my mail than someone breaking into my apartment or computer to read the email that has already made the treacherous journey to my machine.</p>