>Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 06:36:14 -0700 >From: "someone" >Subject: A new twist (or shimmy) on video E-mail > >An article by Brian McGrory entitled "E-mail as evidence" in *The Boston >Globe*, 19 Oct 1995, p.1, (the article discusses this and also the issues >about companies' right to read employee E-mail) had the following anecdote, >which seems made for RISKS: > > ...A high-level executive with a Manhattan health company had a new > technology that allows users to tape themselves with a tiny camera > built into their monitor, send it through the system, and have it > appear on the recipient's screen as a talking, moving image [sounds > like a Connectix camera on a Macintosh to me]. > One night, arriving at her hotel, she flipped open her portable > computer and began recording such a message. Sitting before her > laptop in the privacy of her room, she teasingly disrobed, performed > what a corporate lawyer later would describe as a "shimmy," and > purred to the intended recipient, a fellow married colleague, "Hurry > to the hotel and here's what you get tonight." > Problem is, she struck the wrong button on her computer, and the > video flashed on the screens of more than 400 employees throughout > her health company -- subordinates, bosses and people who had never > met her before." > >The article goes on to describe how bootlegged copies of the message was >distributed around the company, and appeared on floppy disks sold at >computer fairs. [Health fairs, too, perhaps? PGN] > >And I thought Oliver North had set the record for embarrassing E-mail >screw-ups.