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I doubt they implement or worry about technology to absolutely prevent anything the president ever emails from ever leaving the office. Copy + Paste into a new
by DanHulton 18y ago
I doubt they implement or worry about technology to absolutely prevent anything the president ever emails from ever leaving the office. Copy + Paste into a new email solves that pretty cleanly.
The issue however, is what if someone unknowingly or accidentally forwards something the president wrote? There's easy-to-setup and use technology in pretty much all mail servers to check for and prevent that.
(I'd find it super neat however, if there were a program that took all of the president's emails and inserted extra random spaces/punctuation/etc. so that if there WERE leaks, they'd be identifiable.)
- amcnamar 18y agoRather than preventing the emails from ever being forwarded, all incoming emails are probably filtered against a white-list of "accepted" addresses. Otherwise, the emails are probably discarded. So, even if his "private" email address gets out, it doesn't matter. They'd change it, but only to stop people flooding the email server.
- jaxn 18y agoThey only let him email people with iPhones. That way they fix the copy+paste hole.