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The same can be said about any IT department. One of my friends sent made the news papers over sending a racially shared joke through the email system to the "b
by rjd 15y ago
The same can be said about any IT department. One of my friends sent made the news papers over sending a racially shared joke through the email system to the "boys joke list" in a rather large and respected company.
Turns out some people in the IT department where also helping themselves to the list as a source of entertainment, one of them took extreme offense to the joke and reported it.
After the thing went through its investigation process it was uncovered that the majority of disliked staff in the department where infact reading everyones email. Most of them had set up notification filters to flag emails with there names to see what people where saying about them.
Now the question is how common is this considering how easy it is to do... and how the whole system more or else runs off trust?
I'd say if you have sensitive stuff going through your email that you don't want external parties to see, set up your own server and find someone who isn't petty to look after it.
- kenjackson 15y agoFor an IT department the expectation is that people will read your email. I honestly don't think what you describe is rare at all, based on stories I've heard. And if you work for the gov't your email can often be requested by citizens via FOIA.
- rjd 15y agoI was working for a government agency in New Zealand when they introduced a law that meant every email became a government communication and you couldn't delete anything. I usually operate on an empty inbox principal, it was a total nightmare for me. I folded that contract as soon as my term was up.
- X-Istence 15y agoMoving it to another folder wouldn't have sufficed?
- rjd 15y agoYep, but when you get hundreds of emails a day, you end up folders inside folders. Not being able to trim excess is a total pain. Not to mention the pain of having limited mailbox sizes, so you have to ring the infrastructure vendor to archive your mail. And then put in requests to get older archives so you can search for stuff.