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That's something she should make sure comes up in her future job interviews, especially if her firm deals in the tech industry...if I had an attorney with those

That's something she should make sure comes up in her future job interviews, especially if her firm deals in the tech industry...if I had an attorney with those sorts of concerns I'd feel pretty good about my legal council. On a side note, I have no idea why pgp is not more common in that industry. It's completely insane. In some ways, you'd be better off sending your legal correspondence on a postcard with attorney/client priveledge disclaimer at the bottom.

blitzar 5y ago
Your confidential agreememnt along with the nuclear codes is attached to this email in a zip file, password is your year of birth.
- rayiner 5y ago
  Password will be sent under separate cover in an email right after this one. LOL.
traceroute66 5y ago
> I have no idea why pgp is not more common in ... Maybe because pgp is still the same pain the butt it was back in the 90's. Nothing significant has been done to improve the user experience. Meanwhile, roll forward to 2022 and there are now dozens of good quality secure document sharing platforms, all of which have full web, desktop and phone/tablet integration.
- yeetsfromhellL2 5y ago
  Having used some of those secure document sharing services, I don't feel very confident in them. They seem more like a checkbox getting ticked off for the sake of offloading some liability. pgp is a real dinosaur and a nightmare to set up, but for sharing legal docs digitally, I can't think of a better tool.
rayiner 5y ago
It hasn’t gone unnoticed but getting stakeholders (not only lawyers, but clients, even clients at tech companies) to give up email is an uphill battle: https://www.wired.com/insights/2014/09/insecure-email-fix-it/ https://www.wired.com/insights/2014/09/insecure-email-fix-it... > Case in point: just a few weeks ago Goldman Sachs mistakenly sent a sensitive email with account information to a random Gmail user because someone fumbled some keystrokes and sent to a “gmail.com” account instead of a “gs.com” account. The email contained such sensitive information that the only recourse Goldman had was to get a court order to require Google to retract the message. Just this month, the UK’s Information Commissioner “sounded the alarm” for lawyers in an attempt to get them to realize that unencrypted email is an unacceptable risk for privacy. It is by far the weakest link in terms of law firm information security these days.

blitzar 5y ago

Your confidential agreememnt along with the nuclear codes is attached to this email in a zip file, password is your year of birth.

rayiner 5y ago
Password will be sent under separate cover in an email right after this one. LOL.

traceroute66 5y ago

> I have no idea why pgp is not more common in ... Maybe because pgp is still the same pain the butt it was back in the 90's. Nothing significant has been done to improve the user experience. Meanwhile, roll forward to 2022 and there are now dozens of good quality secure document sharing platforms, all of which have full web, desktop and phone/tablet integration.

yeetsfromhellL2 5y ago
Having used some of those secure document sharing services, I don't feel very confident in them. They seem more like a checkbox getting ticked off for the sake of offloading some liability. pgp is a real dinosaur and a nightmare to set up, but for sharing legal docs digitally, I can't think of a better tool.

rayiner 5y ago

It hasn’t gone unnoticed but getting stakeholders (not only lawyers, but clients, even clients at tech companies) to give up email is an uphill battle: https://www.wired.com/insights/2014/09/insecure-email-fix-it/ https://www.wired.com/insights/2014/09/insecure-email-fix-it... > Case in point: just a few weeks ago Goldman Sachs mistakenly sent a sensitive email with account information to a random Gmail user because someone fumbled some keystrokes and sent to a “gmail.com” account instead of a “gs.com” account. The email contained such sensitive information that the only recourse Goldman had was to get a court order to require Google to retract the message. Just this month, the UK’s Information Commissioner “sounded the alarm” for lawyers in an attempt to get them to realize that unencrypted email is an unacceptable risk for privacy. It is by far the weakest link in terms of law firm information security these days.