The key is *personal* e-mail. It's not unreasonable for any company to assume their e-mail systems are used primarily for business purposes. The e-mail doesn't indicate it's personal. It doesn't say, "Your Ghonorrhea test results have come back! Click here for the results." The e-mail has no contents other than a link and doesn't indicate that the "Zero Day" promise was made after this employee left the company. In fact, the subject "Zero Day" is directly related to SecureWork's business and it's entirely reasonable to expect a security company to investigate the contents. I'm actually surprised someone actually monitors these accounts and took the time to look into it!
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:28:26 -0400 security curmudgeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >: >>A more ethical company would have sent HDM a polite note >saying that >: the person no longer works there before curiosity got the best >of them. >: >: Does your company do this for all former employee e-mail >accounts? > >No. But they also don't continue to accept mail to those accounts >either. > >: Let's hope he unsubscribed from all his mailing lists before he >left. > >If a company is going to continue monitoring a former employee's >mailbox >(intentionally or via a 'catch all'), that is fine. But when they >specifically act on a personal private mail between someone >outside of >their company and the former employee, they are crossing the line >of >ethical behavior I think. As I said, the least they should have >done is >mail HDM and notified him the person no longer works there. If >they didn't >do that, and if you think they shouldn't be required to, then they > >shouldn't act on the information in the mail either. > >_______________________________________________ >Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. >Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html >Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ -- Click to become a master chef, own a restaurant and make millions http://tagline.hushmail.com/fc/CAaCXv1QhbNmqK0ynJatT1qFQMwOiVRg/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
