Resumen
The article focuses on issues concerning computer privacy in the U.S. Privacy in the digital age is dead. At best, one of the most cherished rights as members of a free society is on life support, kept alive by cybercratic ramblings of an electronic fringe unable to come to grips with reality. Readers are certainly savvier than the newly minted America Online Inc. subscriber. Intimate knowledge of e-mail's inherent lack of privacy is a dangerous thing. It leads to complacency. Given that, most not know how to launch a drive to unionize the workplace using the company email system, to abstain from saying "bad things" about the boss, or sending dirty jokes. Scores of employees, from product managers to chief executive officers, are now busy defending emails they wrote years ago in the courtroom where the government is prosecuting Microsoft Corp. for alleged antitrust violations. Indeed, much of the government's case is drawn from the electronic paper trail of corporate email.