[LINK] Email account utilization warning

[Howard Lowndes]

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 10:48, Glen Turner wrote:
> 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.

The problem is that password protecting zip files could also be a
legitimate act in order to provide some degree of protection of trade
secrets, in which case legal action would be both valid and probable.

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