Re: Encrypting Data-in-Transit

[Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:03:29 CST, Alan Amesbury said:

> "confidential and privileged information" that might accompany it.  An
> even more effective approach (inasmuch as such disclaimers can be
> labelled "effective") would be to place the disclaimer first,

My personal favorite are the requests that we delete "all" copies of the message.

My canned reply to these things asks if they're willing to indemnify us for the
downtime of a mail server that handles 1M+ mails/day for 70K+ users, including
finding *all* the blocks (including swap space and the like) and making sure
that said mail will *never* be recovered off some very high-performance and
expensive RAID-5 that's there just so things have a very hard time going away
without permission.  And oh yeah, there will be a charge for rebuilding all our
backup tapes and destroying the old tapes, because of *course* they wouldn't
want to end up like Col. Oliver North, convicted largely on the basis of e-mail
scavenged off the backup tapes:

http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/offdocs/reagan/chron.txt

:)

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