But I digress. Dear Dr. Kies, I don't know whether your policy permits publication on Cloak and Dagger of an appeal for help in researching a book. If such an insert is permissible, please let me know, and I will compose a note for the next forthcoming edition. Cable modems are susceptible to their net activity being watched by everyone else using your access point, and quite frankly it's not hard and everyone knows it. The notion that only one of your emails so far has been intercepted and thus you really dont need to worry about anymore is naive.
People capture and watch whatever they can a lot.
Several years ago I did a project for an extremely large well know Internet Company. It came to my attention that at that point they were maintaining email surveillance on a huge number of people. Pedophiles were targeted but so were celebrities, politicians, sports stars, and others, had their mail trapped and read by company personal. They were also sharing information with various entities in the Federal Government. Some of this was any email to or from a person on the target list and some was by subject sensitive search of all emails through their system.