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Who would bother with the following totally sad, useless and overall piss-poor disclaimer?

==Begin== Copyright material and/or confidential and/or privileged information may be contained in this e-mail and any attached documents. The material and information is intended for the use of the intended addressee only. If you are not the intended addressee, or the person responsible for delivering it to the intended addressee, you may not copy, disclose, distribute, disseminate or deliver it to anyone else or use it in any unauthorised manner or take or omit to take any action in reliance on it. To do so is prohibited and may be unlawful. The views expressed in this e-mail may not be official policy but the personal views of the originator. If you receive this e-mail in error, please advise the sender immediately by using the reply facility in your e-mail software, or contact snipped-for-privacy@bmwfin.com. Please also delete this e-mail and all documents attached immediately. ==End==

Aw, you guessed.

(BTW BMWguys, it ain't unlawful and it is highly suspect for you to suggest otherwise. See? I'm copying it.)

Reply to
Cockburn
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A hell of a lot of organisations do this, and goodness only knows why. They stick the disclaimer at the bottom so once you've read the email you then get to the legal guff, AND they seem to entertain this notion that a legal disclaimer will somehow automagically stop someone scanning the email in transit.

There is a simple solution if you want only one person to get an email and be able to read it: encrypt it with modern twin-key encryption. You don't then need the legal guff or the non-legit copyright notice; any bugger intercepting the thing will have a job on decrypting it.

Granted, security services can and do break codes, but even they have great difficulty doing it. Increasing cipher block lengths can stymie this, too.

Problem is, this can be done automatically by a geek with a brain, and geeks thus equipped are relatively cheap to hire. Lawyers hate this; technical know-how eliminating the noble and expensive art of legal chicanery is just not on, they say.

Reply to
Dan Holdsworth

Cockburn? Try rubbing it with some lotion next time.

Cockburn wrote:

delivering it

unauthorised

snipped-for-privacy@bmwfin.com.

immediately.

Reply to
Weird

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