What is interception?

[Peter Fairbrother]

Charles Lindsey wrote:

[...]

> There was no suggestion that the
> mere fact it was on their machine and therefore accessible by anyone
> with root privilege was of relevance (as Peter has been maintaining).

I have never maintained that.

My position (and that of the OIC) is that examining the email "opens" the
email and makes it available to the virus checker. It is not relevant
whether the person or body corporate who runs it can directly access the
email himself, he has used the machine's access to the mail.

I see nothing in this decision that contradicts that position.

[...]

> However, on the strength of what was reported, I would suppose that
> communications quarantined with the intent that only the intended
> recipient could recover them (or give instructions for them to be
> examined/destroyed/whatever) would not be considered as interceptions,
> much less communications that were discarded unread.

I see no grounds whatever upon which such a supposition could be made,
assuming the communications had been examined in order to decide whether to
quarantine/delete them.


-- Peter