People who participate in something that is supposed to be confidential, should have a reasonable assumption of confidentiality.
We’ve got a lot of clowns in this nation, and many of them are against your and my interests these days. Do we simply agree with the hacking that goes in our direction, then hope for the best when it’s a “confidentiality” important to us?
IMO, we have to honor confidentiality in all instances whether we approve or not.
Should someone be able to tap the phones, or read their mail, or install hidden cameras in a place like this, just because we don’t like them? No!
This is no different.
If we want rights, we have to support everyone’s rights.
People who participate in something that is supposed to be confidential need to be bright enough not to do that on the sidewalk at noon. And absolutely the internet is the sidewalk at noon.
They and you disregarded that.
Scam artists telling the naked Emperor that he was wearing invisible clothes didn’t make him less naked.
Scam artists the Ellington lust driven suckers that the Internet could become a secret place if they just forked over twenty bucks needed marks just as duplicitous. And they found them.
As P.T. Barnum remarked on the subject of suckers, there is one born every minute. And two to take him.
Deeds done in public come to light quickly. Even if some conmen are telling you that the Internet is private, it is not. Private networks are called LANs or WLANs and they use their own wiring and routers, not the taxpayer built infrastructure.