Greg,
I use ‘CA’ products in Australia and have found them to be excellent. In so far as your ‘independent’ server, then your security forces are like a cancerous growth, eavesdropping on all emails and phone conversations. I would be suprised if an independent server was immune from the web, these agencies have cast. We can all thank Mr. President of Vice (I think that it may be vice-president) for the current security overkill. An interesting investigation would be to determine what private organisations derive income from providing such services and more importantly who actually ‘owns’ those corporations. One dominant personality already stands out as a recipient of funding. Recent war contracts in Iraq showed a large recipient of rebuilding funds was a corporation with guess who on the board. Said company apparently was required to refund $9m in overcharges to the American government. Further charges pending. Must have been a simple oversight, along with the thousands of other overcharge ‘oversights’ that a house committee on wartime funding has been investigating from numerous contractors.
Even office staff emails are regularly vetted by their bosses to determine how much productive time is lost and actually what the email senders are writing about the company or personnel employed. One only has to go one step further up in the office command chain to suspect involvement in email tampering.
