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This seems to be the default 2 choices for government agencies lately when something bad happens: either they were incredibly incompetent, or they're lying abou
by higherpurpose 12y ago
This seems to be the default 2 choices for government agencies lately when something bad happens: either they were incredibly incompetent, or they're lying about it. Neither of which puts them in very good light.
- makomk 12y agoThere's nothing about this tale of incompetence that's particularly incredible. A lot of privately-run businesses apparently have the same mess when it comes to e-mail archiving - central e-mail storage has restrictive quotas and users have a bunch of PST archives stored locally on their work laptops. It tends to come with running an Exchange server because central storage is expensive and hard to maintain. Don't think the manual printing and archiving of e-mails is terribly unusual either, though most places don't bother.
- hga 12y agoI seriously doubt any of those private companies have legal obligations to keep this stuff forever. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7926642 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7926642 about what banks do per SarBox requirements to do that.