Securely share iCal among family members

Hi:
We have a family MobileMe membership.
I would like to securely share calendars between us.
Specifically, can my wife and I each access AND modify various calendars that are securely stored somewhere on our MobileMe account?
I have heard horror stories about folks publishing calendars that were supposedly secure, but all nefarious individuals needed to do was guess the mobileme userid and the calendar name, and then use that info to burglarize homes when people noted that they were on vacation.
Thus, we'd like a password protected setup on MobileMe where we can each access and modify the calendars, i.e., not just read info published by the other.
Ideally, we;d like to be able to do this from both our iPhones and our Macs
Is this possible?
Much appreciated!

I would also like to know if this is possible.

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