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Article #1504Re: 60 Minutes says that "E-Mail is not private."
From: Steven J Tucker
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 00:00
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In a previous article, fn979@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Don Reynolds) says:
>In a recent newscast 60 Minutes reported that e-mail
>was not private.
Big news flash, thanks. If you want privacy use PGP, otherwise dont
assume your communications are secure.
>We all know that the
>system operators are honest so we should not be worried
>that our e-mail is being read.
Your system administrator may not have any interest in your e-mail, but
'trust until indicated otherwise' is not a good policy. If you have
something truly private to say, encrypt it and save yourself the
headache.
Steve
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108bc6,4891bd7719641fef X-Google-Attributes: gid108bc6,public From: dh395@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven J Tucker) Subject: Re: 60 Minutes says that "E-Mail is not private." Date: 1996/06/19 Message-ID: <4q9vri$enr@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu> X-Deja-AN: 161086116 references: <4q91jg$68t@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu> organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) reply-to: dh395@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven J Tucker) newsgroups: cle.general