On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:09, Graduate Studies Web Master <[email protected]> wrote: > I definitely don't think governmental agencies should be able to snoop > without due process of law, but I think it is just as bad to have the > government dictate how I use my own machines in my own home. As far as the > morality of monitoring in general, I think it is just as morally repugnant > for someone to demand that I should be forced to handle my machinery in the > way they want for their personal convenience as to monitor someone else's > e-mail with the intent to protect the network.
The problem at hand with regards to Andrew's reasonable expectation of privacy is that it would have been just as easy (perhaps easier) for them to simply inform him that his email raised a flag and ask for his input, instead of immediately reading it, then contacting him. If it was deemed a high-level-risk flag, they could always just quarantine the message until he verified that it wasn't malicious and (in this case) he knew very well that it was a joke. For me, the issue (and the "wrongness" associated with it) is not that they're monitoring, it's that they are monitoring so much more intrusively than they need to be. -- Alex Esplin -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
