RE: [Full-Disclosure] Email

From: Jos Osborne (Jos_at_meltemi.co.uk)
Date: 02/04/04

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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 15:49:45 -0000

    >> Add to this privacy issues - they have to open up the e-mail to scan it
    >> - and you end up with a fairly horrible problem.
    >
    >Yeah, if you have a crack team of virus analyzing monkeys sitting in the
    >back, opening up and manually checking every single piece of mail coming
    >through your network, you might have some privacy -- and load -- problems.
    >
    >But then again, you might have bigger problems.
    >
    > - Damian

    Yeah - I know - they're not _actually_ going to read anything, it's just that I'm fairly sure that there are issues with reasonable expectations of privacy and opening up what is regarded as a "sealed container"

    Then again I'm probably just being a little paranoid. 1984 was one of my favourite books when I was a kid.

    Jos

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