It depends on what you mean by being private? When you send a message, if I got this right, your message needs to go through a server to reach your friend. That is where FBI, police, and other legal authorities get their information.

I don't think hackers get their information that way, it is much to difficult for them.

We recently had an incident here about leaving your site open, non closed, when you log off your computer. People can then enter your account here and at other sites if they know your user name. Evil Trolls took control of a persons site for a minute or two.

So if you log out of sites that problem is solved.

Then there is the poverty factor, I live a hair above the poverty line, with no money in my checking account ever. Why would someone want to hack me, they will get nowheres except make a crazy man real pissed.

Which means that I am capable of insane revenge to this person and their families. If a chance in a million they get caught. I am also full of hot air most of the time also.

If you are worried about someone reading a regular letter, not one involving the President or WMD I wouldn't worry then. No copy of your emails are saved in your......that is not true. If your husband, or dad, hit a certain button then all email that goes out is saved on his computer to be viewed later.

I am not sure what happens if you use hotmail or not, I don't think any email from hotmail or gmail is saved on the computer.

To the best of my knowledge,Hugs can be accessed(through Google etc.)but sending messages is about as private as you can get on this site.I don't know if the moderators can access messages...I don't think they can