Re: [PLUG] WEF email

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 09:41  AM, eric@lucii.org wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:25:58AM -0500, Kevin Brosius wrote:
> > gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> > > This was mentioned on /., by way of the presumed-privacy of email
> >
> > This always surprises me.  That people would assume their email is
> > private when it travels through public networks unprotected.  Let's 
> > not
> > be naive, shall we?  Assume your email is not private unless you do
> > something special to protect it.
>
> The problem is that we are sophisticated users... we KNOW that email
> is not private.  The typical email user is unaware about how email
> works much less the nature of the networks that it travels over.
> That will change - but slowly.

HIPPA will change all that once the lawsuits begin to flow... starting 
about 15 April. (The first phase of the HIPPA regs kick in on 14 April, 
and the lawyers already smell "class action" dollars flowing into their 
pockets.)

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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