Re[2]: The Great Zero Challenge

[Chris Salter]

Hello Peter and UKCrypto,

Monday, September 8, 2008, 1:15:29 AM, you wrote:

> Wendy M. Grossman wrote:
>> Roland Perry wrote:
>>>
>>> I have one too - which seeks to illustrate that if you don't 
>>> understand it, how can you comply?
>>>
>>> [unbelievably, the entire thing is a Googlewhack].
>> 
>> I guess we all have them. The email sig that really bugs me these days 
>> is the one exhorting me not to print the message out unless I really 
>> need to. So officious and rude, I think.
>> 
>> wg
>> IMPORTANT - ANTI-DISCLAIMER - This email is not and cannot, by its 
>> nature, be confidential.  En route from me to you, it will pass across 
>> the public Internet, easily readable by any number of system 
>> administrators along the way.  

> While sometimes sysadmins can read mail along the way, it's highly 
> illegal ..

I have in the back of my mind that it is not illegal for a member of
the general public to monitor police radio communications but it *is*
illegal to act upon any information gleaned from 'listening in'.

In my retired status I provide voluntary 'sysadmin' services to a
number of charities and in past 'career lives' I have worked in
applications/system programming and datacomms/telecommunications. In
the normal course of problem determination in all those 'lives' there
is a risk of seeing sensitive information. If there is a problem with
a live system it is more than likely you will have to monitor the live
system in order to identify where the fault lies.

My current 'sysadmin' responsibilities for the charities include
reviewing for false positives mail designated as spam by our anti-spam
measures. I'm human so in that reviewing process I 'read mail along
the way'. What I don't do is act upon it apart from forwarding the
false positives to the intended recipients. It's an important point.

Regards to All,

Chris

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 Chris Salter                      mailto:ukcrypto@originalthinktank.org.uk
 Cornwall United Kingdom        http://www.originalthinktank.org.uk/