Netiquette, by Virginia Shea, page 126
get garbled, the sysadmin may be able to restore them. If you forget
your password, the sysadmin can do a "reset" and give you a new one.
A system administrator with any sense of ethics -- or even one who's
reasonably busy -- won't routinely read other people's mail. But it's not
a safe assumption that all
sysadmins are too honest or too overworked
to snoop.(Endnote #31)
The
privacy problem extends beyond nosy sysadmins. The technology
needed to automatically screen large volumes of email is widely available. (Endnote #32) Sometimes, as a matter of company policy, businesses routinely
screen employees' email. To make matters worse, agencies of the federal government can readily monitor vast quantities of email, automatically searching for key words.
Perhaps even more common than active
snooping is
human error. Here
are some of the things that can happen:
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