[plug] Rewinding word documents (legal implications, longish, Jeremy please comment)

[skribe]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 10:21, Leon Brooks wrote:

> * Virus scanners help, but your office may be one of the unlucky one which
>   cops a virus before your scanner uploads a signature for it; often there
>   is a window of several days to several weeks between release of virus
>   and release of signature. Now that you've been told this, you are
>   unquestionably corporately liable if a virus distributes anything from
>   your office. Sorry.

What an absolutely hideous thought.  Something like sircam could do serious 
damage to a legal firm's reputation and undermine any confidence the 
clientele has for the firm.  

So, apart from asking how the firm stores their data and what security they 
use to ensure that viruses like sircam don't send confidential documents 
across the virtual globe, what questions/assurances related to data security 
and confidentiality can a potential client ask/demand of a law firm before 
committing their fat wads of cash?

skribe

PS: asking 'do you use linux' probably isn't sufficent =).
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	Thompson, if he is to be believed, has sampled the entire rainbow of
legal and illegal drugs in heroic efforts to feel better than he does.
	As for the truth about his health: I have asked around about it.  I
am told that he appears to be strong and rosy, and steadily sane.  But we
will be doing what he wants us to do, I think, if we consider his exterior
a sort of Dorian Gray facade.  Inwardly, he is being eaten alive by tinhorn
politicians.
	The disease is fatal.  There is no known cure.  The most we can do
for the poor devil, it seems to me, is to name his disease in his honor.
>From this moment on, let all those who feel that Americans can be as easily
led to beauty as to ugliness, to truth as to public relations, to joy as to
bitterness, be said to be suffering from Hunter Thompson's disease.  I don't
have it this morning.  It comes and goes.  This morning I don't have Hunter
Thompson's disease.
		-- Kurt Vonnegut Jr., on Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Excerpt
		from "A Political Disease", Vonnegut's review of "Fear and
		Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72"