No? Well, you are not alone. Perhaps a comforting thought as Halloween approaches. But this is what an eavesdropper might be able to catch your iMac/iPad/iPhone/iTouch sending, in clear text - that is without any encryption.
Now that I've got your attention, let me tell you when and how this can happen. It occurs whenever you have your Apple Contacts list synchronized with another program, such as Facebook, GMail, HotMail, etc. and that other program doesn't have a contact that the Apple Contacts program has. This might not seem like you'd ever be a victim of data loss, you don't sync your contacts, right? Well, according to +Dan Goodin 's excellent article in Ars Technica (here) a whole lot of addresses have been obtained by experts such as the NSA, by being aware of vulnerabilities like this one.
I am not going to fault the NSA or any other government service for combing the net and teasing out information legally available to them. But remember - you (and I) are not alone out here on the internets, and if the NSA can grab this information, others will try.
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