Xref: utzoo comp.admin.policy:70 comp.unix.admin:1943 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!choda From: choda@milton.u.washington.edu (Bob Marley) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: E-mail Privacy Message-ID: <1991May23.220336.8735@milton.u.washington.edu> Date: 23 May 91 22:03:36 GMT References: <15110@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 25 burley@albert.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley) writes: - Unless you're willing to risk the message not getting through, being willfully changed by another person, and/or being publicized, PRINT A MEMO ON PAPER, VERIFY IT YOURSELF (VISUALLY) (or your trusted secretary can do this, of course), AND DELIVER THAT PIECE OF PAPER, NOT AN ELECTRONIC VERSION! - Once you've printed such a memo via a computer, immediately delete the online version. Something that sensitive shouldn't be online unless you've got a super-secure system, and even then, why take the risk when retyping it, even if necessary, is so trivially easy? This is not entirely true.... mail encryption IS available and is available for EASY use also. Encryption cuts down on chances that a "cracker" who has access to your account, can read your mail. Unless he/she has the key.... But that does not stop them from deleting the mail. Of course any good "cracker" wouldn't tamper with mail, as to not leave any footprints.... But there ARE people out there to destruct, sooooo.... True the paper version is probably safer, but since you have purchased that multimillion dollar machine, and you also have concern for the environment, why not do it on the ole 'puter? You would have to shred any paper memo that was to "personal' also.... Its all a hassle to be private.