A discussion of the ethics of encrypted communication and government intervention
Date Submitted: 09/24/2001 05:41:48
Category: / Science & Technology / Internet
Length: 4 pages (1199 words)
Category: / Science & Technology / Internet
Length: 4 pages (1199 words)
E-mail and internet communications are not secure or anonymous. System Administrators and fourteen year-old hackers alike can pry into your personal or corporate mail. Anything you send can be read by others. Communicating by e-mail has been compared to sending postcards that anyone can read as they travel along.
It is nearly impossible to communicate anonymously through e-mail. Though many people don't use their real names on e-mail messages, the names are always recorded somewhere. …
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…or not, because the will draw no attention. And as far as corporate security goes, I think that there is not a great reason to worry. Companies will never be 100% secure and the potential for security leaks and abuses outside the on-line world are much greater.
Our right to be protected from criminals and the virtue of punishing the guilty win out in this case over our right to privacy and absolute freedom of speech.
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