Privacy advos wail while lawmakers bluster. The trigger? US fed courts ruled that email can be tapped.

After all, reading other people’s mail is bad… isn’t it?

Of course it is. Unfortunately, reading email without detection is too easy. Almost anybody can do it. Laws will simply give users a false sense of security.

Want control of corporate privacy? Maintain your own in-house mail servers. Require message encryption when possible. And teach users… especially execs… that anything they say in an email message can and will be used against them in a court of law.