I seem to share the same opinion as Andrew. One example that might illustrate this a bit more effectively:
We do not know with surety what these people are monitering. It would not be out of the question for them to be monitering emails that sound suspiciously like an honor code violation. They can then forward these people that have committed this honor code violation to the honor code office with a copy of the email they said. Now, suppose that I'm a bishop of a BYU ward. Suppose I'm helping a student in my ward through an offense that normally would be an honor code violation. He or she has given me total confidentiality of this matter. I have agreed not to share this matter with anyone else as a service to the student. We communicate about his or her offense through email and I maybe even make suggestions of things he or she can do through email to improve his or her life. Because BYU is monitering suspicious emails of what seems like honor code violations, they moniter my communications with this student. If the person monitering the email was an associate of my student's, trust is now broken and relationships could be strained. I personally would not like my communications monitered. I have A LOT of confidential information in my email that I would not share with the general public. Anyone who says otherwise, I'll gladly accept your password to your email. :) On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Andrew McNabb <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:33:57AM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: >> Michael Torrie wrote: >> > I do my own certificates signed by my own certificate authority. That >> > way I can just have someone download my ca certificate and load it into >> > their system and then everything I do is validated for them. >> >> I use a neat little gui called xca to do my certificate management. >> >> http://xca.sf.net >> >> It's in the repositories of many distros already. > > Thanks for the tips. I need to look into this. I've done openssl on > the command-line before, but this just isn't pleasant. > > -- > Andrew McNabb > http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ > PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
