Jim Henderson wrote:

> Well, it's not that difficult to understand - this is what happens when 
> technically incompetent people decide how to implement policy.

What's technical? The sysadmin is, by definition, God. You can't stop 
God from doing things. QED. You don't need to know a thing about 
technology to comprehend this extremely simple principle.

> That said, there are ways, for example, to prevent a sysadmin from seeing 
> files in a filesystem.  File-level encryption, for example - or directory-
> level.  With Linux, this is almost so simple as to be trivial using encfs 
> (of course with requisite Linux-foo skills).

Yeah, sure, but the *key* has to be stored somewhere. ;-)

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