__/ [ Tim Smith ] on Wednesday 07 June 2006 07:32 \__
> In article <1934430.8ha3m8QcCt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>| According to a new study, about a third of big companies in the United
>>| States and Britain hire employees to read and analyze outbound e-mail as
>>| they seek to guard against legal, financial or regulatory risk.
>> `----
>
> Using encryption would be a big risk. If they are reading the outbound
> mail in order to satisfy regulatory obligations, or to protect themselves
> against legal and financial risk, then they will simply tell the sender to
> provide
> the decryption key. If the sender refuses, that is likely grounds for
> termination.
_ALL_ E-mail should be encrypted. Read the following:
http://www.pgpi.org/doc/whypgp/en/
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| What if everyone believed that law-abiding citizens should use postcard
| for their mail? If some brave soul tried to assert his privacy by using
| an envelope for his mail, it would draw suspicion. Perhaps the authorities
| would open his mail to see what he?s hiding. Fortunately, we don't live
| in that kind of world, because everyone protects most of their mail with
| envelopes. So no one draws suspicion by asserting their privacy with
| an envelope. There?s safety in numbers. Analogously, it would be nice
| if everyone routinely used encryption for all their E-mail, innocent
| or not, so that no one drew suspicion by asserting their E-mail privacy
| with encryption. Think of it as a form of solidarity.
`----
According to that stance that you present, all employees should also post
their memos without any envelopes.
Best wishes,
Roy
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