Carnivore and the dated email protocol (Score 1)

Governments around the world have always found new ways to keep tabs on the public, and our electronic age has made their job much easier. Carnivore is bound to be misused to gather information, to think any differently would be we to admit we live in fairyland. The potential for misuse is astronomical. Do the FBI really think that they will find many genuine emails detailing plans to blow up the Pentagon, rob banks, commit murder etc? It would be interesting to see what happened if every member at slashdot started a chain letter containing a number of keywords to set Carnivore sniffing away. Most Laws and restrictions usually only hurt the honest man - criminals will always find ways around them (usually harming the innocent to arrive at their goal). Isn't it about time that the email protocol was revamped and the security holes sewn up? A protocol that is decades old is surely not suitable for the way we do business today.