On 06/09/2011 02:52 PM, Ben Eisenbraun wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 02:27:29PM -0400, Matthew Gillen wrote: >> On 06/09/2011 01:27 PM, Doug wrote: >>> Every September, I have skipped the meeting. Since I am just a nerd >>> with a few public web sites and an open source project, I don't feel a >>> need to encrypt anything. I would be interested to hear why people in >>> BLU uses encryption. >> >> I make sure to use it when my wife sends me email to my work email >> address. My employer doesn't need to be reading my personal email >> (there are laws against employers reading personal mail, but why trust > > I think you mean: > > s/laws/no laws/ > > If you get a personal email to your _work_ email address, that email is the > property of your employer, since it's using company resources.
Actually, that depends on the particulars of your company's IT policies: http://www.laborlawyers.com/shownews.aspx?Are-Employees-Personal-Emails-On-Work-Computers-Private-Sometimes-Rules-N-J-Supreme-Court&Ref=list&Type=1122&Show=12796 (in that case, explicit permission was granted in the IT policy such that, among other things, "occasional personal use is permitted", so the court found that the employee had a reasonable expectation of privacy when communicating with her lawyer, even when using company resources) But yes, that becomes even more reason to just use GPG: so that I don't have to keep up on the latest interpretation of privacy laws. Matt _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss