[geeks] Email Disclaimers

[Phil Stracchino]

On 07/07/11 11:29, Brian Dunbar wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>
> wrote:
>> On 07/07/11 09:00, Michael Parson wrote:
>>> It all goes back to what I was told a long time ago, and I have told
>>> my users every since, don't put anything in an email that you wouldn't
>>> write on the back of a post-card, it's got the same level of security
>>> and privacy around it.
>>
>> Better, if you're going to send confidential information via email,
>> encrypt it.  That's been a solved problem for nearly twenty years now.
> 
> It's not a solved problem if people aren't aware of the value or
> encryption. or that they can encrypt email.

True.  OK, let me restate that:  it is a TECHNICALLY solved problem.

> The majority of people are not aware of encryption, or think of it as
> something impossibly complex.   The problem will be solved when people
> encrypt their stuff in the same way they use email, or lock their
> doors when they leave home.

Unfortunately, a large part of that problem is that far too many people
still think that it is a problem that can be solved by saying "Don't
look at this or we'll hit you with a lawyer."  And that is nothing short
of laughable.  It is going to be effective only against people who care
about being vaguely threatened with lawyers.

In actual practice, I suspect that roughly nine times out of ten that
anyone thinks the solution to a particular problem is to deploy a
lawyer, that person is wrong.  It's that kind of thinking that is
litigating and regulating our society to death by slow suffocation.


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