Corporations Face Problems with Employee Emails

Posted by Zonk on Sunday December 9, 2007 @07:42PM from the think-before-you-send-is-a-great-adage dept.

TwistedOne151 writes "Law.com has an article outlining how the casual attitude of many employees toward work e-mails has resulted in some thorny problems for corporate in-house counsel. 'It has now become routine even in civil investigations for computers to be subpoenaed so lawyers can look at e-mails and hard drives. And one thing always leads to another. "We have forensic software that shows multiple levels of deletions. It shows thought processes. We can learn far more than from just a document alone," said [Scott] Sorrels. "E-mails have taken over the world."'"

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Re:Solution?: Use DRAM SSD for email storage by Chris+Mattern · 2007-12-10 00:26 · Score: 2, Informative

Don't be ridiculous. You subpoena *information*, not hardware. You present them with a hard drive that's been wiped of its data, even if you wiped it merely by unplugging it, and you've erased subpoenaed data, and you are in a WHOLE lot of trouble, including, quite possibly, criminal prosecution and jail time.

Chris Mattern