[ale] [WAY OT] Ethics Question

[Geoffrey]

da Black Baron wrote:
> On the ethics question, one has to wonder why the admin was reading his
> lusers e-mail to begin with.  It's obviously not the policy of his
> work-place to sneoop (and I consider that inappropirate, despite the
> legal decisions currently in force concerning company snooping, just
> because a group of lawyers feel that it's "right" doesn't make it so),
> so why was he doing it?
> 
> Do you want the postman to read your mail just because it's passing
> through his hands?  Do you want the fed-ex people to read your mail,
> just because it's passing through their hands and it happens to be a
> "private" distribution system?

Invalid comparison.  I'm not saying the admin should have 'snooped' the 
email, but the email sits on hardware that belongs to the school system, 
and is provided for business purposes.

> 
> The enitire notion of a sysadmin being responsable for, or reading
> through, e-mail that happens to pass through his system is repugnant to
> me- and to play into the clutches of the "law-and-order-before-privacy"
> goons who want to hold sysadmins responsable for e-mails is not only
> stupid (you want to spend all day screening e-mails for no-nos?) but
> only tosses more dirt over the grave of the 4th amendment...
> 
> 4th RIP...

Again, the issue is clouded by the fact that this system is for 
'company' use, not personal.


-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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