Give me my freedom, for as long as I be All I ask of livin’ is to have no chains on me All I ask I of livin’ is to have no chains on me And all I ask of dyin’ is to go naturally I only wanna go naturally From And When I Die by [...]
Posts Tagged ‘email’
Is privilege transitive?
Posted: September 17, 2010 in general, professional, securityTags: attorney-client privilege, email, expectation of privacy, legal, privacy, reasonable expectation of privacy, senior computing
A little less than a year ago in a post called No privilege for you! a situation was discussed where communication that appears on the surface to be clearly privileged, that between a client and attorney, was not. Due to the circumstances of the communication. Namely it was an email thread that took place over [...]
Email advice for the rest of us
Posted: August 30, 2010 in general, professional, securityTags: email, malware, non-technical users, phishing, SAFE EMAIL, spam, webmail
Coming up on the second anniversary of Security For All (no, this is not THAT entry – it’s coming) I realize that I’ve been remiss about the “For All” part of Security For All. Lately it’s been all about copyright enforcement shenanigans, e-discovery technicalities, Fourth Amendment, privacy issues and Captain X-Ploit parables and nary a [...]
E-discovery is hard
Posted: August 10, 2010 in general, professional, securityTags: e-discovery, email, forensics, legal
Sometimes life is hard like trying bail out the ocean with a spoon Sometimes life is hard like trying to turn December into June And sometimes life is hard like trying lasso a quarter moon From Life Is Hard by Eric Durrance I’m trying really hard to catch up on all of the e-discovery news [...]
Maybe privilege for you after all
Posted: April 10, 2010 in general, professional, securityTags: attorney-client privilege, email, legal, privacy, reasonable expectation of privacy
In an earlier post entitled No privilege for you! I wrote about how an employee’s attorney-client privilege was not applicable because communication with his attorney took place via his employer’s email and therefore there was no reasonable expectation of privacy. In that case the e-mail communication in question took place on the employer’s internal email system [...]
Gray haired computing part 3
Posted: December 2, 2009 in general, securityTags: botnet, email, mail, malware, phishing, pwned, senior citizen, senior computing, senior netizen, spam
In part 1 of this series we talked about finding the right computer system and decried the lack of availability of such systems. In part 2 we talked about how to get connected with friends and family when access to a computer system is impossible or impractical. So in this part we’ll start from the [...]
Gray haired computing part 2
Posted: November 29, 2009 in general, securityTags: email, postal mail, senior computing, SunnyGram
In part one of this series [Hey, I didn't know it was going to be a series either], amazed that computer manufacturers don’t understand a potentially huge untapped market, I outlined what kind of computing hardware and software would be good for seniors. But what about those who for whatever reason, be it advanced age, [...]
No privilege for you!
Posted: October 9, 2009 in general, professional, securityTags: attorney-client privilege, email, legal, privacy, reasonable expectation of privacy
Everybody knows about the idea of attorney-client privilege. At least in the USA. It’s what keeps lawyers in business and their clients out of jail. In general, any communication between attorney and client is privileged. It’s a secret that no court can compel either party to divulge. Kind of like the privilege between confessor and [...]
Greatest security breakthrough?
Posted: July 20, 2009 in general, securityTags: alcohol consumption, email, faculty-based security, google, Mail Goggles
DEAR DR. SECURITY: I am sending you this email in an unfortunate state of complete sobriety (given that it is after quitting time here). Should I over indulge however, Gmail has my inebriated back, so to speak. While adjusting my settings I came across this feature which can be enabled: Mail Goggles by Jon P Google strives to make the [...]
Canary for your address book
Posted: June 7, 2009 in general, professional, securityTags: address book, canary account, email
The other day my mom got one of those “send this advice to everyone you know” emails promoting an idea to keep your PC from becoming a spambot. Here is the pertinent text. As you may know, when/if a worm virus gets into your computer it heads straight for your email address book, and sends [...]
