Hi Tiacita!
I want you and everyone who posts here to feel secure -- I want to make that known first and foremost.
To help everyone BE secure, I'm afraid that I must say some things that might be uncomfortable. I spent several years in IT and one area that I specialized in was security. Probably THE most basic tenet of information security is this:
NO electronic security system or method can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Period.To put that in terms applicable to this Forum, it is
impossible for pk or anyone else to make the information stored in the database totally immune to hackers.
Also know that Big Brother has spent hundreds of millions, if not billions, of our $$$ on hacking tools to counter and wage informational warfare. BB has the ability to read EVERYTHING you enter or send over the Internet that is not encrypted. Even most encrypted transmissions (e.g. PGP) can be decrypted with enough computing resources. The only really tough encryption to crack is called a "one time pad" where the decryption key must be securely couriered from one location to the other.
Sadly, BB does not have the financial/communications/computing capability to do so. Yet.

We would all feel so much more secure if our beloved BB did indeed read every character we typed to prevent those nasty, Godless terrorists from threatening our fragile peace of mind. Right?

Sorry, I do believe my politics are showing.
Now, Tia, back to your concerns. Maybe I can help. Can you explain what you're feeling insecure about without feeling even more insecure?
If not, please feel free to contact me privately to express your concerns. And that goes for ALL Forum members, too. I guess I am hereby volunteering to be your unofficial security consultant. I'm sure Cal will not have any problem adding consulting fees to my already generous salary, right Cal?
Just remember, you can trust your deep, dark secrets to dear old Uncle Eon! (Bwahaha!)

~ET