Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Reading employees' mail Message-ID: Date: 17 Oct 90 00:47:22 GMT References: <4761@bone25.UUCP> <69148@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <1990Oct4.031131.2296@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <12853@hoptoad.uucp> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 22 In article <12853@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: > So, to protect EVERYONE's privacy and make it possible to conduct all > kinds of discussions, private as well as public, by email, they > instituted this policy. Sounds like a good policy, but the rest of the posting indicates that there is no way of really enforcing it: > If email is not secure, by technology or by > strictly enforced edict, ... i.e., in this case email is not secure by technology. So... > you can't handle personnel matters by email. ...this remains, as it does in the case of cordless or cellular phones, a true statement. Of course, I don't think anyone in *this* list needs this pointed out. I do agree that company policy should be that email is private. BUT, I think that unless you have a more secure environment than most UNIX installations you are only prudent in assuming it isn't. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com