[45994] in Cypherpunks
Re: Employer Probing Precedents?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ecarp@tssun5.dsccc.com)
Wed Dec 27 20:35:37 1995
From: ecarp@tssun5.dsccc.com
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 17:50:36 -0600
To: cypherpunks@toad.com, Jason@tssun5.dsccc.com, D.@tssun5.dsccc.com,
Livingood/WSC@hks.net
> From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Wed Dec 27 17:48 CST 1995
> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 16:51:41 -0500
> Subject: Employer Probing Precedents?
> To: cypherpunks@toad.com
> From: "Jason D. Livingood/WSC"@hks.net
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> To Whom It May Concern:
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> I was curious as to where I might find some electronic freedom legal
> precedents. If, for example, an employer was planning to probe file systems on
> PCs in the off-hours and employees began encrypting their hard drives, what
> legal precedents would support the employees or would support the employer in
> blocking the encryption?
Try www.eff.org.
I have a partition on my HD that is routinely encrypted. When asked about it,
my response was that I was acting to protect company confidential material
and company assets.