From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:00:00 +0800
To: Rick Osborne <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: PGP in the workplace
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At 11:20 PM 9/17/96 -0400, Rick Osborne wrote:
> Upon explaining to them that I was simply trying to make sure of my own
> security, I was told that I was to just assume that I was secure, and that
> *any* 'poking around' was found to be "highly aggravating" and could only
> only "exascerbate the situation further.".
>
> Now, seeing as I'm fairly new to the Corporate world, but is this something
> common?  

Not at all common in my experience, though whether this is because most
bosses are more enlightened, or because most bosses are pig ignorant
about security, I am not sure.

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