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Article #1509Re: 60 Minutes says that "E-Mail is not private."
From: dionisio
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 00:00
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Steven J Tucker (dh395@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) said: }Big news flash, thanks. If you want privacy use PGP, otherwise dont } assume your communications are secure. And don't decrypt the files on the company's computers. Transfer the files to your personal computer and decrypt things there. (Laptop time. <g>) There are several utilities that system administrators (Provided they obey the rules of the Employee Surveillance and Monitoring Act of 1986) can use to snatch what you read on-screen. (And then, for the *really* paranoid, there's always "tempest".) -- <a href="http://www.infinet.com/~dionisio">Finger</a> for PGP public key And the Thought of the Moment (tm) is... "If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution --- certainly would if such a right were a vital one." -- Abraham Lincoln
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108bc6,4891bd7719641fef X-Google-Attributes: gid108bc6,public From: dionisio@infinet.com () Subject: Re: 60 Minutes says that "E-Mail is not private." Date: 1996/06/20 Message-ID: <4qaqit$a1b@news1.infinet.com> X-Deja-AN: 161151694 references: <4q91jg$68t@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu> <4q9vri$enr@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu> organization: InfiNet Systems, Columbus, Ohio, USA newsgroups: cle.general