[65750] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP in the workplace
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Wed Sep 18 02:31:09 1996
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 22:05:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: Rick Osborne <osborne@gateway.grumman.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0b16.32.19960917232055.005410c0@gateway.grumman.com>
On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Rick Osborne wrote:
[clueless sysadmin story elided]
> Now, seeing as I'm fairly new to the Corporate world, but is this something
> common? I know when I was at college, poking around was expected and
> encouraged, as it helped find and plug holes in the system. But this is
> almost like some kind of protection racket here!
This never happend in any company I worked for. Don't think I'd last in
such an environment. Neither, one should think, will a company where half
the people have root. Three man operations excepted.
Just my $0.02,
--Lucky
