TIME MACHINE (10.5.2?) DOES NOT KEEP HOME FOLDER FILEVAULTED

Hello friends,
I have been using TM & FileVault successfully for awhile. I recently noticed on the TM backup drive that my home folder is backed up UNENCRYPTED!!! I have FileVault turned on and it has appeared to backup my home folder at appropriate times. My concern is WHY IS TM NOT KEEPING MY HOME FOLDER ENCRYPTED THROUGH FILEVAULT?
If I take the TM backup drive and connect it to a Windows machine, or even another Mac, I am browse the Backups directory with no problem and see all my files and documents UNENCRYPTED. Even on the Windows machine!
Can anyone else confirm that TM does not keep their home folder encrypted? Why were end-users not made aware of this issue? And, how do we fix this MAJOR SECURITY FLAW?!

Time Machine simply looks at the files that your user account can see. Since your user account can see the files within your file vault, it reads them, having no real inkling that they started out encrypted. Just as OS X hides the encryption/decryption from you, so does it hide it from Time Machine.
The .sparseimage that underlies the file vault is just one big file, and changing a single byte in a single file in your file vault would cause Time Machine to have to back up everything.
Is this a bug? Not really. It's working as designed. Is it an oversight? Yes. Agreed. Is it a major oversight? Depending, yes.
However, if you were to take all the files in your file vault and drag and drop them to the same drive, the same thing would happen.
Right answer? Apple should support encrypting ALL time machine backups, regardless of origin.

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