The Biggest Lesson from the Sony Hack? We Need to Replace Email

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by franzpeterstein • 12 years ago

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greenyoda• 12 years ago

A corporate e-mail system is very different from personal e-mail. For example, you can't use a public-key cryptosystem in which only the user of an e-mail account has the key to that account. Corporate e-mail is the property of the company, and if an employee resigns, is fired or dies suddenly, the contents of their e-mail needs to be available so that their successor can carry on their business functions. (This is true for everyone from a customer service rep to the CEO.)

Also, e-mails need to be archived for legal reasons. For example, if the employees of a financial services company moved all their communications from e-mail to WhatsApp, the SEC would not be pleased at all.

EGKW• 12 years ago

No we don't. Like [greenyoda](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8779346) says, not for corporate email.

The Biggest Lesson from the Sony Hack? We Need to Replace Email

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