On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 03:12:02PM -0700, Brian Phillips wrote: > > Basically, which email did OIT read? (I assume you were on-campus when you > penned "The Joke", if not, please correct me) > A) your outgoing mail as it went from your on-campus laptop mail client to > mcnabbs.org server > B) your incoming mail as it passed from mcnabbs.org to the CS department > mailing list
That's a great question. I think it was probably B, because I was hoping that A was using TLS, but it's hard to say for sure. As of last night, I am sure that my TLS is working really well, but I'm not 100% confident that it was working earlier. In any case, it sounds like they try to snoop all traffic, both incoming and outgoing, but it isn't a transparent policy. > With regards to the discussion, I think there should be a distinguished > difference in the expectations of privacy involved in both A and B. If I'm > reading the scenario right, your joke message passed through BOTH A & B, but > there are certainly countless messages moving through BYU's tubes that fall > in one case or the other, but not both. My personal opinion is that > snooping case A is pretty big-brotherish, but snooping case B is acceptable > to me. Snooping case B is still pretty big-brotherish to me. First of all, even the CS department administrators weren't aware that this snooping is happening (and it's certainly not something running on their mail server). Second, I can't control email coming into campus. In an ideal world, I can be careful to never send confidential emails, but I cannot control what other people send me. So if someone sends something confidential to my CS department address, there's nothing I can do to stop BYU bureaucrats from eavesdropping. -- 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
