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Email hacker banged up for exposing boss's sex life

Liam

mannnn 

2 years and £3k fine for that... seems a tad harsh to me!

you could rape someone over here and get less time!

Mark

Would've been safe in the UK or US 

Because everybody here and in the US keeps telling us workers that what we have on the work computer and our emails at work is not our property and we have no right or expectation of privacy.

Unless it's Two Jags complaining about people seeing and reporting on him going to his grace and favour residence with a little bit of "grace and favour" on his arm...

Jonathan McColl

I'm safe at work anywhere 

Maybe I'm unusual, but I generally try to avoid using my office mailbox housed in my employer's servers to send all my sex-related emails.

Certainly not during the day anyway, the night-time ones are probably OK cause there's no-one in the office to read them at night.

Oh and I don't use the office system for my bringing-down-government ones, or Majestic 12 ones, or all the other stuff that the CIA-GCHQ combine is watching out for.

(Sorry, my sarcasm button got stuck)

John Sanders

Do people actually send sex messages? 

IT Angle

Who does send sex messages?

All I send and receive is messages to customers about work related stuff...

Maybe it is because I never pay atention to those "grow your thing" spam messages.

Daniel Garcia

@Liam 

Mail privacy is a basic constitutional right in Spain and you can get up to 3 years for messing up with others' mail.

But the penalty for rape is up to 14 years.

Anonymous Coward

@ John Sanders 

Yep, and being mail admin, I have to clear the dreck out of our filter daily. It makes it hard to look at a colleague with a straight face.

Mine's the one with the barf bag in the pocket...

Jay Cooper

@ John Sanders 

Heart

Of course people send sex messages! How else do chat to the fit receptionist you fancy having a bit with when you are supposed to be working. Although i don't obviously. WOuldn't dream of it.

Now how do I erase these emails?