The Email Trap.
Posted By Cliff Tuttle | December 26, 2009
Posted by Cliff Tuttle (c) 2009
SUMMARY: Any email you send could be used to harm you.
The seizure of State Senator Jane Orie’s computer files by the Allegheny County District Attorney may well lead nowhere. But the fact remains, even if that prosecution is dropped, the prosecutors have the files and they are already reading them. This includes hundreds of thousands of emails containing information from and about constituents.
If a recipient’s computer is seized by authorities, hacked by criminals or reviewed by an adverse party during discovery in a civil lawsuit, the sender’s email is read by someone who is planning to do harm to the recipient and could, depending upon the content, develop an interest in doing harm to the sender. Worst of all, the recipient could betray or accuse the sender, providing the email to police, media or spouse — or all three. [As with Tiger Woods] And then, there’s blackmail. [As with David Letterman]
Every email you ever sent has the potential to end up in the hands of an enemy.
CLT
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