[net.news.adm] root reading private files

gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett) (04/17/86)

To summarize: I opposite super-users poking in otherwise private
(ie, readable only by the owner) files.  Nonetheless, for purely
technical as well as illicit reasons, it happens anyway.  Right
or wrong, it *does* happen anyway, and for your own protection
you should assume that.

One of my private files is a phone book of personal (non-business)
numbers.  I put the following comments at the top of the file:

# The information contained herein is confidential.  If you are
# reading this without my permission you are in violation of
# ethical law. -- gam
#
# "Ha! What makes you think someone's going to stop reading this
#  because of a violation of ethical law?"
#
# Oh...
#
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Everything you know is wrong.
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