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Before e-mailing anything confidential, do a test that you have the new contact e-mail address correctly transcribed, otherwise your password may be sent to the wrong person.

Just as IT/400 personnel can read MSG/400 that people send each other and may think are private just sender and receiver, e-mail archive management personnel can read any e-mail between any employees. But there is so much of it, no one is interested in reading all of it.

Moving into the future, Patriot Act mentality will require ISP archiving of all e-mail & all voice telephone traffic because within that vast personal and business traffic there is the remote chance of some terrorist communications to be mined by seeking key words. C-Span covered the court case against AT+T copying of personal communications for NSA. That was not just phone traffic.

Our private communications are not private. But the threats to our privacy are less from government snooping, than the identity theft and financial theft underworld.

ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

The point to realize is that once it leaves your own infrastructure,
ANYTHING could happen to that email. In most cases, that will be
nothing... it will arrive on a destination server and then be kept nowhere
else. But the potential for it to be read or kept elsewhere is there; so
if it's a password to a crucial or valuable resource, it's probably a bad
idea to send a password in clear text. If for no other reason than as a
CYA measure!

There are alot of measures taken in IT security that are done for the sake
of auditor comfort or really, really long shot vulnerabilities. I see this
issue as the same sort of thing... the potential for exploitation or
trouble is pretty remote, but why open up the chance?



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