From Wired News:
E-Mail Snooping Ruled Permissible By Kim Zetter
Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,64043,00.html
08:40 AM Jun. 30, 2004 PT
E-mail privacy suffered a serious setback on Tuesday when a court of appeals ruled that an e-mail provider did not break the law in reading his customers' communications without their consent.
The First Court of Appeals in Massachusetts ruled that Bradford C. Councilman did not violate criminal wiretap laws when he surreptitiously copied and read the mail of his customers in order to monitor their transactions.
Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,64043,00.html
All of us know that e-mail is more like a postcard, but this next step gets scarey!
MarkB
But very urgent! E-Mail Snooping Ruled Permissible
But very urgent! E-Mail Snooping Ruled Permissible
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I don't believe there's anything that is or will ever be private on a computer connected to the internet. No matter how many firewalls, adware detectors, anti-virus programs, ghost alerts you my have, something or someone can and will get through. I still don't store any financial information or pay any bills on-line for that reason.
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If you have something to hide, use PGP (it won't stop John Ashcroft but will stop your typical dweeb/pervert/nosey parker).
If you don't have anything to hide, leave it cleartext and increase the "workload" of dweebs who have nothing better to do than read other people's mail!
While it's not a surprising ruling, it does seem a bit inconsistent, given that it's a federal offense to use a scanner to eavesdrop on wireless telephone conversations...
If you don't have anything to hide, leave it cleartext and increase the "workload" of dweebs who have nothing better to do than read other people's mail!
While it's not a surprising ruling, it does seem a bit inconsistent, given that it's a federal offense to use a scanner to eavesdrop on wireless telephone conversations...
John
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The Internet is wonderful. Surely there have always been thousands of people deeply concerned about my sex life and the quality of my septic tank but before the Internet I never heard from any of them.
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The Internet is wonderful. Surely there have always been thousands of people deeply concerned about my sex life and the quality of my septic tank but before the Internet I never heard from any of them.
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The next thing you know some one will read my posts!:lol:
By the way PGP has a very capable clone called GnuPG http://www.gnupg.org/. It is multi platform and GPL. So if you don't trust PGP try this.
And remember that it is a weapon and therefore not exportable from the United States. So get it from a mirror outside the US if you do not live there.
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By the way PGP has a very capable clone called GnuPG http://www.gnupg.org/. It is multi platform and GPL. So if you don't trust PGP try this.
And remember that it is a weapon and therefore not exportable from the United States. So get it from a mirror outside the US if you do not live there.
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That's no piccolo, that's my fife!
Re: OT: But very urgent! E-Mail Snooping Ruled Permissible
Is it me, or does "Bradford C. Councilman" seem like a fake name? Like "Nautius Maximus"... :roll:MarkB wrote:The First Court of Appeals in Massachusetts ruled that Bradford C. Councilman did not violate criminal wiretap laws...
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Notice that this is a very "technical" interpretation, based on the letter of the law.
It's up to the government to change the law to keep up with the technology, so if this upsets you, contact your gov't representatives and lobby them to update the laws.
It's up to the government to change the law to keep up with the technology, so if this upsets you, contact your gov't representatives and lobby them to update the laws.
Mike Wright
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"When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place."
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Big brother returns. The best solution is to wear them out. Have fun creating emails with friends that purely silly. Get enough people doing it and there wil be black heliocopters landing and every neighborhood.
Wear out the McCarthys
It may be illegal to joke at airports about things but it not illegal to joke in private email. It would interesting to reveal snooping of private mail this way.
Wear out the McCarthys
It may be illegal to joke at airports about things but it not illegal to joke in private email. It would interesting to reveal snooping of private mail this way.
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