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   Momma always said...

   

   Joe Schmoe, Oct 8th, 2003 @ 8:55am

   
   

   Stupid is as stupid does...

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   not everybody

   

   westpac, Oct 8th, 2003 @ 9:43am

   
   

   To monitor the email of a DoD employee or contractor requires a search warrant from either civilian authorities or the provost marshal. If my boss ordered me to open another employee's email without doing this I would be fired. While email (and telephones) are subject to monitoring it cannot be done indiscriminantly and at the lower management level.

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   And It Could be Public One Day

   

   Director Mitch, Oct 8th, 2003 @ 10:40am

   
   

   This sort of goes with your Enron email article yesterday where emails weren't read by bosses, but by EVERYONE after being posted by the government.
   
   While they can still be monitored, but with more difficulty, I always do personal email over a web email service and leave the official pop servier for business.

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   Cat's Out of the Bag

   

   Beck, Oct 8th, 2003 @ 12:48pm

   
   

   If they are monitoring web surfing too they now know that I know they are reading my mail.

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   Re: not everybody

   

   Anonymous Coward, Oct 9th, 2003 @ 7:42am

   
   

   You're a moron... and you're not even close.
   
   Your communications section reads your e-mail all the time. Where I'm at, the communications sections actually sends e-mails *as* individual users! I had a user grab me in the hall today and ask why they had recieved a return recipet for an e-mail message they didn't send from themselves to theirself that didn't appear in their sent items.
   
   Now, I won't even go into some of the details about pilots who have been called before his boss because their free-lance war stories to the editors of certain magazines got caught in the surveillence net.
   
   privacy legislation, HIPAA, lawyer-client privlidge, all of it is null and void in the name of National Security(tm). Because you don't know this, I can tell you work on the other side of the fence... silly rabbit.

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   Revenge is Bitter Tasting

   

   Anonymous Coward, Oct 9th, 2003 @ 8:26am

   
   

   Thats alright 'cause I pee in their watercooler

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   Re: not everybody

   

   Anonymous Coward, Oct 9th, 2003 @ 9:24am

   
   

   Sorry westpac, you don't know what your talking about. Your email is scanned and recorded. If you don't think so, you're fooling yourself.
   
   I agree there is a lot of pressure to prevent
   peons spying on each other, but at high levels
   none of that applies - bosses see anything they
   want to see. No warrent needed. Don't you remember all the forms you signed when you got your account - basically informing you that you have NO expectations of privacy.
   

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   Re: not everybody

   

   westpac, Oct 9th, 2003 @ 11:05am

   
   

   to the person who called me a moron and the person who says I don't know what I'm talking about: read my fucking post and then shut the fuck up. I said YOUR BOSS cannot read your email. Being scanned is a totally different manner. I have worked in computer security for DoD for a dozen years and know EXACTLY what the fuck I'm talking about. I have seen two program-level managers lose their jobs for going on another employee's PC to read their email.
   
   To clarify: your email and phone may be monitored by security. Your boss cannot do so. So fuck both of you.

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