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Re: Time to Use the GNU Open Encryption Tools

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ Tim Smith ] on Wednesday 07 June 2006 07:32 \__
>
> > In article <1934430.8ha3m8QcCt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> >> ,----[ Quote ]
> >>| 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:

Feel free to encrypt all the *personal* email you want. But when
working at a company, and using company computers, company bandwith,
company premises and on company time it is the company that will decide
what software you can have on your system and whether or not you are
allowed to encrypt email.

There are often good reasons for policies like this. Security,
accountability and government regulations are frequently involved.
Anyone who disagrees with these policies and believes it's their god
given right to encrypt their outgoing email is free to seek employment
elsewhere. If the company tells you to _stop_ encrypting email and you
don't comply, they will (rightly) ensure that you do seek employment
elsewhere.



> http://www.pgpi.org/doc/whypgp/en/
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | 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.
> `----

Orthogonal to the point. Do whatever you want with *YOUR* email. But
what you do at work belongs to your employer, not you.


> According to that stance that you present, all employees should also post
> their memos without any envelopes.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Roy
>
>
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