-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Harry Bartholomew writes:
If anyone has Macworld perhaps we might contact the author for further details. It seems to me a startling point to be told that one in five email users IS being spied on. How many more encryption buffs might emerge if this were common knowledge?
The Macword survey is old news - about six months, if I remember right. I'll see if I can dig up my copy. I think we'd all turn into encryption buffs if the real extent of E-mail surveillance was known; there are plenty of curious or nosy folks out there with legitimate (or otherwise) access to root, or the local equivalent. I'm not thinking of policy-oriented systematic plans of oversight, but the occasional fishing expedition on a Friday night when everyone else is off of the machine, and [..]. I've run into too many folks who admit to a once-in a-while exploration of /usr/spool/mail to think that anything in there is really secret. It's educational to see what happens to traditional notions of ethics when paychecks are a week late, the managers are locked in the conference room, and people are starting to wonder about who gets laid off next. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.5 iQCVAgUBLfinEH3YhjZY3fMNAQHsuQP/U9+TNjmkKrwDGzrG1xcEyrIpyFSJZkBX 2jcZqlyxzm+MR2QJ0hUiBaTyFjdy862Ro6Mc9RkGldswdM5PB8iJVrxZwaoA9dMj VOF4pPQjt0HzmFnjolhjK7+O1Gvx8zKxlUZtyCPftULCublFeTuQpRYg81FSOn9U xp0GDcNKUnc= =64Dg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----