West Lothian and email

[ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk]

Quoting Ian Batten <igb@batten.eu.org>:

>
> On 14 Jan 09, at 1047, David Hansen wrote:
>
>> On 14 Jan 2009 at 9:54, Roland Perry wrote:
>>
>>> The problem always has been: whose format of encrypted email (not much
>>> interoperability, afaik), and is there any format that doesn't require
>>> at least "A level" computer science qualifications to operate?
>>
>> I'm not convinced that any of them which are punted to the public do
>> need any skill to operate. Insert memory stick, type in passphrase is
>> not a problem to anyone who can operate a computer.
>
> Oh, behave.  Do you think that encouraging people to insert untrusted
> memory sticks and run binaries from them to which they then supply
> security credentials overall (a) improves or (b) reduces the public
> good?

Hang on, wait a minute.

The trust I know is supplying the sticks to workers.  They've always =20
supplied sticks, but now they're saying that workers can *only* use =20
these sticks, and encryption must be turned on.

So, that's the sticks.

Lothian (not a trust I know) was, from the radio programme, saying =20
that they are happy for staff to send email internally on the =20
intranet, but it must not go outside to the Internet.