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[DMCA-Activists] Microsoft: Now Possible to Implement Locked Down Email
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Seth Johnson |
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[DMCA-Activists] Microsoft: Now Possible to Implement Locked Down Email |
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Mon, 20 Oct 2003 18:07:09 -0400 |
(That is, "We now believe we hold command over public communications
and private computing, and we can now sell privacy." See
http://www.nyfairuse.org/action/palladium/palladium.boycott.xhtml
BTW, Microsoft holds a "patent" on a "DRM Operating System." See
http://cryptome.org/ms-drmos-sj.htm -- Seth)
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3205080.stm
Microsoft launches 'leak-proof' e-mail
The latest version of Microsoft's popular Office software will, the
company claims, allow users to send e-mails that will "self-destruct"
after a set time.
The development is designed to improve security - and avoid
potentially embarrassing messages coming back to haunt senders.
Microsoft says users will also be able to restrict who is allowed to
read an e-mail - and prevent recipients from forwarding messages to
other users or printing them off.
The new software - known as Information Rights Management - could
potentially be used by governments and companies to prevent leaks of
sensitive information.
Private e-mails
Several Wall Street analysts and bankers have been reprimanded or
sacked in recent years for sending potentially incriminating
electronic messages.
In the most high profile case, Merrill Lynch technology analyst Henry
Blodget was forced to resign after investigators discovered he had
been actively promoted stocks he privately rubbished in e-mails
as "junk".
In the UK, government special adviser Jo Moore was sacked after she
sent an e-mail describing 11 September 2001 as a good day to "bury"
bad news.
More recently, private e-mails messages from members of the British
Government and the BBC have been disclosed by the Hutton inquiry into
the death of Dr David Kelly.
Regulators
Microsoft says Office 2003, which is to be launched on Tuesday, will
allow users to "time stamp" e-mails, ordering them to be deleted on a
set date.
But any organisation planning to install the new software may run into
opposition from regulators.
In the United States, destroying e-mails is a federal offence,
regarded in a similar light to shredding documents.
Earlier this year, brokers Morgan Stanley were fined $1.65m for
failing to keep e-mail records.
The company says the deletions were an oversight, rather than a
deliberate attempt to obstruct financial investigators.
Office 2003 also includes software intended to protect confidential
information held in Microsoft Excel or Word programmes.
It is also designed to make it easier to read messages online, rather
than printing them out, through a new viewing pane.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/business/3205080.stm
Published: 2003/10/19 13:15:22 GMT
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