The Great Zero Challenge

[James Cox]

On 8 Sep 2008, at 08:15, Peter Sommer wrote:

> The main purpose of these blanket "legal" sig files is to put any  
> recipient on notice that the email may be subject to legal  
> professional privilege and, as some of you have spotted,  to  
> restrict their use in any subsequent legal proceedings.    Much of  
> my professional correspondence falls into this category as by far my  
> biggest source of income comes from lawyers.
> It is quite true to say that the impact of such a sig file may  
> become modified by particular circumstances,  but the general claim  
> of legal privilege has nevertheless been made.  Lawyers are always  
> concerned that privilege may be inadvertently "waived" or contracts  
> and obligations implied.
>
> If I want proper confidentiality I use encryption.

i seriously wonder how many lawyers send email which is _at least_  
signed and preferably encrypted, with keyserver verifiable keys.....

that does sort out the problem some?