On Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 11:36:54PM -0400, Ray Arachelian wrote:
On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Anonymous wrote:
Second, what if an employee doesn't come back from vacation? You've got messages sitting in his inbox which go back three weeks. All encrypted to his personal key, which is gone.
Shut up Kent, yes, we know it is you posting this rant.
Actually, no, it wasn't.
The above fails due to one single little key word "his personal key." If it is his personal key, then the business has no business reading his email.
Perhaps he has no business having a personal key on a company machine. He's a fool if he does, anyway -- if the company wanted to snoop his key they just go in after hours, install a keyboard sniffer, and grab his passphrase...the bottom line is, Ray, that if it is on a corporate machine, the corporation has access, whether the employee thinks so or not. [...]
This is a stupid arguement. Go away.
Unwitting self reference is so delicious :-). -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html