Online privacy is a serious matter. If the e-mail of a student, professor or administrator can be read and sent by other users, the University community must be informed and a solution must be found. If the programmers claims that NYU Home is unsafe are wrong, Information Technology Services must debunk those statements and let users know what the real circumstances are. It is essential that people know how private their personal e-mail systems are. NYU Home has been created at a great expense of time and money.
People expect it, at most, to be cutting edge and, at least, to be safe and private.
The online world has become a very strange place indeed. There is no longer a clear cut line between a public and a private life. Anything you do on the Internet and any e-mail you receive might be viewed and misconstrued by another. The possibility that the NYU Home system cannot safeguard the University community in every possible way from those dangers is scary. ITS needs to let people know if and how their privacy will be protected on the NYU Home system.