[kms61]

is it moonbattery to think they might use this thing to profile my emails in the not too distant future?

[CarrotAndStick]

Yes. Profiling emails won’t require a supercomputer.

[Born to Conserve]

“is it moonbattery to think they might use this thing to profile my emails in the not too distant future?”

Yes it is, they'll use your computer, and your ISP’s servers for all that work. They'll just require the report.

[HangnJudge]

is it moonbattery to think they might use this thing to profile my emails in the not too distant future?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10787_3-9945710-60.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

There was a recent article that basically stated that an industrious venture capitalist could profile you and do carefully targeted marketing, depending on your web habits, and this might a ubiquitous process in the future...