That's right Prok.. If a hammer can be used to bash your head in, hammers should be banned.

Anything can be, (and is being), used to commit some sort of crime somewhere in the world..virtual or real...right this minute. Balances must be set to protect not only from the crime, but from the enforcers of law. I can't believe you honestly feel that one instance of criminal behavior will be prevented by preventing encrypted IM's in SL I think you're just nosy. We are only talking about simple text being encrypted here..not trading porn pictures. I can certainly think of times when I would be happier if I felt LL were not reading what I thought of them at a given moment..^_^

Oh...and I have never heard the words "probable cause and due process" applied to any LL procedures before..but I suppose anything is possible....^_^