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Being a boss can lead to a paranoid life.
You think you know who's on your side. But do you? After all, in order to become a boss, you did have to betray a couple of people along the way. How can you tell who's doing it to you?
Thankfully, technology has offered you more than one easy option.
Today's revelations in the New York Times that the FDA spied on its scientists' e-mails offers a picture of large-scale prying into not merely work correspondence but personal matters too.
The Times' discovery shows a systematic level of surveillance -- even of correspondence sent by allegedly disgruntled scientists to the president.
The spying was was only discovered when a private document-handling contractor reportedly posted them on a Web site. Yes, a public Web site, one to which anyone had access.
One assumes they did this accidentally. However, should the fact of the surveillance really be a surprise?
Should any employee or servant of any organization truly be stunned if their own e-mail is being eyed by those who might not even be entirely mean-spirited, but merely sweetly paranoid?
Does the almost complete insecurity of electronic communication not leave the door to our thoughts always a... [Read more]
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