George Tuvell

Keeping confidential, confidential

I treat the Internet as public. Acutally, I consider every communication public, meaning phone calls, text messages, emails, everything that you do and say in digital format can be seen by others. Based on the various scandals and crimes we’ve seen in Governement and the Corporate world I think this is generally a good policy to follow. If you want something to remain private don’t send it to anyone, or post it anywhere.

Why this is a REAL problem

Never mind the embarrassing photos of you at the party that got circulated to all of your co-workers. The real problem is how do companies and more importantly governments keep their information conidential, when anyone can take a photo on their mobile device, or send emails and other documents over the public Internet? Especially cases where local police need confidential information to handle a situation, or troops with their lives on the line who also need details that otherwise would be unshared and highly classified.

My point is that once the information is shared, you cannot stop it from hitting the Internet. Even information that isn’t shared, can be collected using cameras and video recorders etc.

I guess you should trust your employees. Do you?

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