[LINK] Email account utilization warning

[Glen Turner]

Daniel Rose wrote:

> Perhaps email scanners should "crack" encrypted zip files; the traditional
> password mechansim isn't very strong.
> 
> This would set an interesting situation.  On the one hand it's "naughty" --
> privacy, DMCA etc.

Yep, an ISP who does this is providing a "circumvention service".
Companies are probably OK (being the recipients they could easily
argue that they have an implied right to read (and thus virus scan)
the e-mail).

Practically, it's hardly likely that the virus author is going
to emerge from their foxhole and launch a civil suit at an ISP.

These edge cases are a good argument against the increasing
criminalisation of the copyright laws.