Just ask management a very simple question: Which policy requires IT to read pupils' communication? DON'T leave out the "policy" - because that is the part management is directly responsible for! Then just watch them boil...

Let me add: things generally considered ok today may be viewed as not ok in the future.

Cockpit-Popup:
"Do you want to update Java or crash?"
|_______________ [Ok ]

For better ergonomics sit on the laptop and type with your toes. That way you have your hands free for motion control!

Everyone in the free world should read the closing statements from the members of the punk band Puss Riot http://nplusonemag.com/pussy-riot-closing-statements- A fascinating insight in how the oppressive system works on individual levels.

One defendant's psych eval identified her values as: "justice, mutual respect, humaneness, equality, and freedom."

Those are values that I hope still define the majority of people in the free world!
And we should NEVER forget to defend them in our societies.

If you trust someone, make proper legal arangements! As long as you can talk to each other contracts don't get in your way. Contracts are needed for future times in case people cannot work out agreements anymore.

He perfidiously collected names of all the CIA agents in the world...
dates when they entered his organization allegedly,
fictitious amounts of their salaries,
and how they benefited his organization...

I do not know anything about the NYT. But I have seen large European corporations: 5 layers of management: 3-4 of these layers doing nothing but exchanging and adjusting project plans (using Power Point!) with each other - and of course: finding arguments to increase their project's budgets. And of course making a lot of fuss about their busyness. I have also heard of a project which needed to cut costs. This is what they did: add another one or two managers, reduce the staff of developers (who do the actual work) by two and cut all others' hourly wages. If a project has a good manager, that is great! But unfortunately my experience tells me that for every great manager there are about 20 managers who act like a trainee.

That's bad publicity. And this error must lead to a loss of users due to lost trust in the reliability of it's operation. If I were using hotmail I'd switch to Gmail or some other trusted provider.
What could be the advantage of such a measure - if it was on purpose?!

the authors make a clear distinction between the mythical man month and what they did!

No other industry has as much freedom as the food industry when it comes to the ingredients of their products! WORLDWIDE! There are laws, but they only cover a tiny fraction of the possible substances the industry can put into their "food".