Consider all your communications, and think about the most ambiguous statement you've ever made regarding illegal activity, whether it was a joke or not. You h

Consider all your communications, and think about the most ambiguous statement you've ever made regarding illegal activity, whether it was a joke or not. You have to be naive if you don't care in the slightest whether the government has all your IM history. At best, they'll realize you're not a criminal and ignore you. However, at worst, you'll be made a target of some investigation, they may very well find some other ambiguous or over-broad statute you're in violation of, and then it's off to court.