Friday, August 28
Stupid E-mail Warning
Was auditing e-mail today, and ran across one of the stupid warning/notices at the bottom of the message. If you're going to warn people about something, especially a Federal Statue, you should really read what you are threatening with first.
Here is the warning:
NOTICE: This E-mail (including attachments) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521, is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any retention, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Please reply to the sender that you have received the message in error, then delete it.
So, I Googled "Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521" and got the following link to the US Department of Justice.
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/wiretap2510_2522.htm
Turns out this is a statute realted to Illegal Wiretapping. Read it, nothing in there about accidentally getting a transmission, only if you wilfully tap a communication. If it is sent to someone by acident, nothing is covered.
Furthermore, the US Attorney General's Office must be engaged to seek prosecution in this matter. So, they would have to be willing to make a Federal Case for sending you something by mistake.
Nice try, stupid sender.
Here is the warning:
NOTICE: This E-mail (including attachments) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521, is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any retention, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Please reply to the sender that you have received the message in error, then delete it.
So, I Googled "Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521" and got the following link to the US Department of Justice.
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/wiretap2510_2522.htm
Turns out this is a statute realted to Illegal Wiretapping. Read it, nothing in there about accidentally getting a transmission, only if you wilfully tap a communication. If it is sent to someone by acident, nothing is covered.
Furthermore, the US Attorney General's Office must be engaged to seek prosecution in this matter. So, they would have to be willing to make a Federal Case for sending you something by mistake.
Nice try, stupid sender.
Labels: e-mail, fail, legal, warning
Thursday, April 9
Someone emptied my trash!
My mother wanted me to get a respectable job. Instead I choose to be an IT Jockey. I should have listened to my mom...
This mail graced the box of EVERYONE in IT this morning from one of our uers.
Essentially the user is upset becuase their trash was emptied, apparently without warning. How amazing, trash, thrown away. This happens about once a week here from our users, "My Deleted Items are gone, I needed those, that is why I deleted them."
WTF - ? - Look up Delete on the Internet you dumbass.
Here is a picture of the "Deleted Items Folder". Damn, if that does not look like a trash can. Imagine, taking out the trash... unholy activity!
We had to send the user a message that on our system, she would have had to click an OK box or manually start the emptying of her trash. Please open a ticket if you would like your trash bin recovered. Genius!
This mail graced the box of EVERYONE in IT this morning from one of our uers.
Essentially the user is upset becuase their trash was emptied, apparently without warning. How amazing, trash, thrown away. This happens about once a week here from our users, "My Deleted Items are gone, I needed those, that is why I deleted them."
WTF - ? - Look up Delete on the Internet you dumbass.
Here is a picture of the "Deleted Items Folder". Damn, if that does not look like a trash can. Imagine, taking out the trash... unholy activity!
We had to send the user a message that on our system, she would have had to click an OK box or manually start the emptying of her trash. Please open a ticket if you would like your trash bin recovered. Genius!
Labels: e-mail, Outlook, stupid users
Wednesday, April 1
Best E-mail Address, EVER:
Got this from EMC tonight, this guy has to love his e-mail address:
Really thought it was going to be SPAM.
Really thought it was going to be SPAM.
Number of people who will never get their time back from reading this page:
