On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Roger Marquis wrote:
> Even companies concerned enough with industrial espionage to encrypt
> their external email sometimes allow icq (through the back door as it
> were) never considering that AOL has access to everything and could
> easily be mining this rich data for their own purposes.
If they don't have ECPA-friendly usage language doing this would be a
felony. Casting such aspersions is generally bad when mentioning specific
companies without good grounds. The ISP could also do this- better to
mention everyone in the potential path if going that far.
> Capture a few sessions, you'll see what I mean.
Anyone who doesn't have explicit privacy-waiving language in their usage
policies is best directed to their legal counsel for direction prior to
"wiretapping"- in fact it's best to get a professional opinion in either
case, but "user expectation of privacy" is AFAIK the test for ECPA
violation, and that's not a very high bar to trip on.
Paul
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