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Why is this such a surprise? Those of us who've been using e-mail since before everybody and their dog had an e-mail address understand that it's an extremely insecure protocol, passed by plain text, and making many hops between your computer and the recipient.
As stated (but I'll state it more broadly)... anything that you send to a 3rd Party no longer has a reasonable assumption of being private. That's true whether it's a hand written letter or electronic communication. Once anybody else has access to it, all bets are off.
How exactly does one expect half of the email features to work without parsing the messages?
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