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Nothing focuses the mind on sensible email retention policies like working at a company where all the email got subpoenaed.

• twic 7y ago
  And since discovery processes are often leaky, pPart of the onboarding at my company is the lesson that you shouldn't write anything in an email that you wouldn't be happy to have splashed all over the Wall Street Journal. So, for example, we try to choose names for applications that aren't going to give people the wrong idea, eg don't call your market manipulation tool TurboMarketManipulator, call it EnhancedOrderManager.
  • jrockway 7y ago
    > don't call your market manipulation tool TurboMarketManipulator, call it EnhancedOrderManager Good advice. I am somewhat surprised at times on what the media doesn't uncover and try to spin as a conspiracy theory. For example, we had this open source project publically available https://gfiber.googlesource.com/kernel/prism/ https://gfiber.googlesource.com/kernel/prism/ around at the same time as the Snowden leaks about "prism" and nobody wrote any articles about it. Of course, it's completely unrelated... but I feel that that normally doesn't stop people. I found the whole thing very interesting.
  • me_again 7y ago
    "Dance like no one is watching; Email like it may one day be read aloud in a deposition" -- Olivia Nuzzi
  • lbatx 7y ago
    I realize you are being somewhat facetious, but calling your (presumably unlawful) market manipulation tool EnhancedOrderManager isn't really the answer. Not building the unlawful tool is.