no.  Though, Bush could if ordered the CIA to snoop.  An attack would
more likely involve replacing code for the Applet or server or just
crack the server and go snooping around.

--
Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html for The Java Glossary.

Depends on who you are trying to protect yourself from.
There are only two points where the Internet traffic can be intercepted
for sure: sending server and receiving server.
Between these two points the IP packages go by the rule of the
"optimized fluctuation" (or Monte Carlo law - don't kill me for the
terms, it's my personal translation to English). It means that despite
there always is the main path (this is how ping and tracert programs
work), 0.0*x - x % of packages can come to the receiving server from
totally different directions.
So in order to trace the whole traffic between point A and B, you have
to either be in A or B, or you have to connect a super mainframe to a
physical narrowness of the Net (Atlantic cable, Canada/USA T1 etc). The
last option is for the "Bugs" TV series, not for the real life, so you
may feel yourself pretty secure from this side :-)
About A and B control it is as being said: unless the government decides
to use the Carnivore program on you (are you in the USA?) or unless you
provider is a nasty crook, the 1024bit certificate is the plenty good
maximum of what you can do now to protect your data.

P.S. 3rd (updated) Parkinson-Merfy law: everything created by one human
being can be disassembled and/or changed by another human being.