Hum, 100 - 78.4 = 21.6 % spying

Fri Jun 10 11:17:03 PDT 1994

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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. 