On Mon, 12 Jan 2015 01:43:01 -0500, Luther Eisenhart wrote:
> "Paul Aubrin" <
chu8...@free.fr> wrote in message
> news:54b257ad$0$2104$426a...@news.free.fr...
>> On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 00:50:09 -0800, gordo wrote:
>>
>>>>This distinguished self proclaimed Nobel Peace Prize is starting to
>>>>really feel the heat.
>>>>The rule when you write an email is to suppose that it could be read,
>>>>one day, by everyone, even if it is a private email. Maybe it is time
>>>>for him to be honest and unreserved.
>>>
>>> Stop being silly Paul. You have posted some of the stupidest things in
>>> this newsgroup .
>>
>> The rule on emails is applied by every IT security conscious person in
>> the world. If it is confidential, don't send it by email.
>
> Use carrier pigeons instead? Or at least in Manhattan a hand written
> note carried by a courier on his bike or rather an army thereof.
I just remind you of some obvious IT security rule. For your data
confidentiality needs, ask a specialist.
>> By the way, why were those emails so confidential that they decided to
>> erase them when they learned that they could be publicly requested to
>> divulge them in the case of a FOIA?
>
> In order to harass you, a la McIntyre?
To try to reproduce the findings of a scientific paper is no harassment,
it is the base of the scientific method.
>>> I have seen some of them almost every day. For you to continue with
>>> attacks on a scientists private emails that were stolen makes you the
>>> grand master of hypocrisy.
>>
>> If you send an email from your enterprise server, it is not a personal
>> email, unless you explicitly mention it in the subject.
>
> Explicitly mention it in the subject that the mail is private in order
> to get fired more expeditiously?
Read the IT security rules which prevail where you work. Generally, you
are entitled to make a reasonable use of your phone, your mails and your
web access for some private needs.
http://www.colorado.edu/avcit/sites/default/files/attached-files/
resources.pdf
Quote
"While some personal use of IT resources is permitted, such personal use
must never interfere with academic, research, or administrative needs"
> I think that a curse directed against potential hackers might be vastly
> more effective.
No. Security aware employees are the best line of defence against
potential threats.
> You should definitely apply for a job in IT security at any number of
> large companies and institutions, with all your other talents (physics,
> languages)
> you will become one of their most precious assets.
What I say here conforms to ISO 2700x IT security recommendations.
> Personal /private emails from work? Do you own a smart phone?
The climategate emails were written at a time when smart phones didn't
allow to send emails. Nowadays it would be different.