63% Of Corporations Plan To Read Outbound Email

John writes "Aviran's place reports that a recent survey of 332 technology decision-makers at large U.S. companies reveals that more than 63% of corporations with 1,000 or more employees either employ or plan to hire workers to read outbound email, due to growing concern over sensitive information leaving the enterprise through email."

Next up...

[bburton]

And it's all going to be done through a goverment agency call the Thought Police.

Next, Telescreens and microphones in every home!

But.....

[ian rogers]

Who do they hire to read the outgoing emails of the people they hired to read outgoing emails?

What a great idea!!!

[tacocat]

This is so far ahead of it's time I just don't know what to say...

I can't send more than maybe one or two MB of data through my email.

But I can easily shove a 1GB USB stick up my ass and walk out past the guards.

Re:But.....

[rd4tech]

in fact, you can set up the whole system with two independent groups reading each other's emails ;)

Re:Gentlemen don't read others gentlemen's mail...

[sik0fewl]

And what if I type my email without thinking? You know, like I do for slashdot my comments.

Re:What a great idea!!!

[3770]

Were you going to put any data on that USB stick before you do that or were you just planning on doing it for fun?

give me the job.

[bobbyw]

Having just read everyone's e-mail I know, I would be GREAT for the job. Where do I apply?

Yes nasty, here's an email we intercepted

[Anonymous Coward]

From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Execute Order 66

Dear Paul,
let's do it,

signed

Steve

I like my job!

[Anonymous Coward]

Really. This wouldn't affect me in any way, because I never use work time for personal business, and I like my boss! He's so clever and intelligent.

Re:What a great idea!!!

[Mr2001]

1GB? That's nothing. I bet Mr. Goatse could sneak a whole file server out of his office.

Re:Our company already does...internal AND ext.

[El Gordo Motoneta]

...more than one person being terminated because of what was called "inappropriate" material...

Well, I'm all for regulating the use of the internet connection at work,
but letting the cyborg kill them almost seems like a bit too much.

Easily circumvented.

[Waffle Iron]

It's not hard to hide your email information leaks from snoops, like so:

2004 Request for temperature compensation aggregate mixtures: Aggregate mixtures are 3% above nominal for the first period, requiring a 8% reduction in admix composition between junction intervals. All temperature compensation is within target limits for the period ending 3/7. Urgent sell all your stock asap; the SouthEast deal has totally fallen through, we've lost all licensing rights and we're going to post a huge loss and massive layoffs next quarter, when this goes public on Thursday our price is going to fall off a cliff. Secondary filtering activity has increased by 27% this period, followed by tertiary filtering increases of 5%. Verification requested.

Change in original plan!!!

[bayankaran]

A recent survey of 332 technology decision-makers at large u.s. companies reveals a growing concern over sensitive information leaving the enterprise through email and through USB memory sticks hidden in their employees ass.

In its 2005 study on outbound email security and content issues, email security vendor and ass searching expert Proofpoint found that more than 63% of corporations with 1,000 or more employees either employ or plan to hire workers to read outbound email and search their employees ass when they arrive and leave from work.

Re:One more GREAT reason...

[Anonymous Coward]

" work for yourself. Being self employed is very hard but rewarding."

Yeah, but what if your spouse reads your emails?

I'm kidding honey...

I am the BOFH

[Anonymous Coward]

I read their mail not the other way around.

This just in

[lheal]

The people who were hired to read the outgoing email of the first group of people hired to read outgoing email have been sacked.

In related news, 20% of managers

[TheNucleon]

...will begin reading their incoming e-mail.

And in other news

[lheal]

The people who sacked the people who were hired to read the outgoing email of the first group of people hired to read outgoing email, have been sacked.

Re:What a great idea!!!

[whovian]

I can't send more than maybe one or two MB of data through my email.

But I can easily shove a 1GB USB stick up my ass and walk out past the guards.

Why go through that trouble when your female co-workers are walking out with USB stick raid arrays?

Re:But.....

[superpulpsicle]

In other news hitech jobs are coming back as US companies plan to hire millions of mail-readers.

Thanks a lot

[MustardMan]

Thanks for ruining the movie for me. Well, at least I still don't know whether Anakin will go to the dark side or not.

May as well enjoy the ride

[MooseByte]

"you've no more expectation of privacy than you do on a CB channel."

Might as well go all PsyOps on their corporate asses then.

Have some outside dummy accounts you can send email to. Send messages full of glowing comments re: boss & company, and others that refer to a mysterious dark conspiracy that haunts your past. Something involving genetic experimentation, a mad European scientist, and a mysterious Brazilian clinic.

Then the week before you quit, start sending mysterious messages encoded in pig-Latin.

"The owls-nay are not as they eem-say."

Re:What a great idea!!!

[mojo17]

1GB? That's nothing. I bet Mr. Goatse could sneak a whole file server out of his office.

Out of his office and into his orifice.

DMCA

[halltk1983]

1) Encrypt it
2) Have your signature include a (c)2005
3) and if the break the encryption, they are violating the DMCA. 4) ??? 5)Profit!!!

Re:Gentlemen don't read others gentlemen's mail...

[FLEB]

The person who monitors those tapes must either really love or really hate their job.

Re:Gentlemen don't read others gentlemen's mail...

[FLEB]

Say, is that the company-logo shirt we gave you when you signed on?

(Dramatic chord)

Re:Gentlemen don't read others gentlemen's mail...

[Suhas]

Short answer, yes.

Long answer, Yeeeessssss!

You do realize...

[Kjella]

...they were reading e-mail, not web postings right? Unless slashdot has a new mail-to-comment gateway I haven't heard about.

Re:May as well enjoy the ride

[Jay L]

What's a nowl?