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Corporations Face Problems with Employee Emails
TwistedOne151 writes "Law.com has an article outlining how the casual attitude of many employees toward work e-mails has resulted in some thorny problems for corporate in-house counsel. 'It has now become routine even in civil investigations for computers to be subpoenaed so lawyers can look at e-mails and hard drives. And one thing always leads to another. "We have forensic software that shows multiple levels of deletions. It shows thought processes. We can learn far more than from just a document alone," said [Scott] Sorrels. "E-mails have taken over the world."'"
Well, in that case, I welcome you, our new overlords.
I thought we just had a slew of articles around the internet telling us that email is dead and it's all about myspace and instant messaging?
Anyway, if you have truly devious intentions, simply use the telephone or speak in person. It works for the president and it has worked for the mafia (at least, it did in GoodFellas).
THe one thing that can never really be dealt with in terms of keeping email private is the fact that no matter how much you encrypt, use tor etc. youcan't escape the fact the person at the other end can always make a backup copy. The lesson here? If you really don't want something to get out into the world in one way or another DONT SEND IT.
Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
Shall I shed a tear because you have more trouble hiding things from the public?
Cardinal Richelieu said, "Give me six lines written by the most honest man, and I will find something in them to hang him."
As true now as it was then.