Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2(pesnta.1.2) 9/5/84; site scc.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!scc!steiny From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) Newsgroups: net.legal,net.jokes.d Subject: Re: Re: DEC memo Message-ID: <440@scc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 20:29:49 EST Article-I.D.: scc.440 Posted: Fri Feb 22 20:29:49 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Feb-85 23:44:21 EST References: <107@mot.UUCP> Organization: Personetics, Inc. - Santa Cruz, Calif. Lines: 35 Xref: utcs net.legal:1438 net.jokes.d:912 > > > OK, pal. Where did you get this? Yo in a heap o trouble, boy. This > > . . . blah blah blah ... > > . . . > Even though this was in net.jokes, is this a real threat? > (Assuming that this refers to a real memo and not some malicious > fabrication.) If it is in net.jokes the "malice" is presumed to be tounge-in-cheek! . I thought "confidentiality" had to do with rules a > corporation makes for its employees. If they break the rules, > they can be fired, even sued, because they have a contract with > the corporation. But, if I get a paper that some corporation wrote > "confidential" on and I show it to someone, can the corporation send > their lawyers to "want to know where I got it"? > Since I was the person that Mr. Williams threatened, I took the time to call "my legal staff," an old friend who is a lawyer. His opinion was that Mr. Williams was a bit off-the-wall. I do not know if the memo is real (I actually thought that it was sarcasm and not real). Basically the analysis above is correct. Were I to have ever signed a non-disclosure agreement with DEC and had I agreed not to publish memos that I got, then they could sue me if I violated the contract. Even if a person violates a non-disclosure agreement it is not against the law to do it. This is all assuming he wasn't joking. -- scc!steiny Don Steiny - Personetics @ (408) 425-0382 ihnp4!pesnta -\ 109 Torrey Pine Terr. ucbvax!twg --> scc!steiny Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060 fortune!idsvax -/