Christoph,
Your posting of my supposed reply is a major warping of the actual email interaction that took place between us. You have ommitted a lot of the information, presumably in an attempt to try and make us look bad and you look good. You have also ommitted to mention that your actions have already been denounced by other people that you have unnecessarily pulled into this pointless argument.
You are NOT a bona-fide customer (our real customers, and there are many of them present in the Universal Thread, don't do this kind of thing!)
I fail to understand why you feel the need to present your indiscretions in public!
This has got nothing to do with privacy in the US, or hacking. It has to with the fact that you tried to access an area of our web server that is either not available or that is not available to the public. You got caught and you don't like that! Once again, no-one tried to hack into your computer. The entry from your firewall that you provided indicates a single lookup of your IP address to see what is there (presumably a web server) to cross-reference your activities against your IP address and email address so that we could send you a message complaining about your activities.

Rob Pritt,
Visual Object Modelers