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Re: 60 Minutes says that "E-Mail is not private."

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From: dionisio
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".)


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Subject: Re: 60 Minutes says that "E-Mail is not private."
Date: 1996/06/20
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