guilty as charged

When I joined the New York Times in November, I told one of the paper’s IT guys that I would be forwarding my work email to Gmail. He rolled his eyes and sighed wearily, as if he had heard that many times before. “Employees are not supposed to do that,” he said.

That moment inspired my story today: Firms Fret As Office E-mail Jumps Security Walls. Web email services like Gmail have gotten so good they are simply better than what many companies, concerned primarily with security, can provide to their employees.

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