The total number of Federal Officials that have lost or destroyed emails is up to 20 now. All of them subpenaed by Congress.
Wow. What a strange coincidence!!
Actually - that sounds like a really good disk wiping tool. Get yourself subpoenaed by Congress and your disk is magically wiped clean. Those tools we have are doing it all wrong!
2 Likes
A few of them have flat out stated that they deleted the emails, despite federal law requiring them to keep hard copies and back-ups. As long as Eric Holder is Attorney General they are pretty safe, heâs not about to make a move against an âallyâ, especially since he has been held in contempt of congress himself.
This has all gone well beyond the point where it shouldnât matter what your politics are, the precedents being set are dangerous. Nixon wouldnât have been impeached if the president before him was Obama, Bush would have invaded Iraq on just his own signature, and Ronald would have had the the Air Traffic Controllers arrested instead of fired. Hell, Iran-Contra would have never been discovered,
Do Democrats really want the next Republican President to be able to change the law just by signing an executive order? Privatize Social Security by executive fiat? Delay legislation because people arenât âreadyâ for it? What if Johnson had delayed the Civil Rights Act because it was an unfair burden on the people to force them to not discriminate based on race?
1 Like
I had to replace the charge port in dakwifeâs Dell a few years ago. You have to remove every other component of the laptop before you get to it.
1 Like
Of course you do, itâs one of the most replaced components. If it was easy anyone could do it, and then why would anyone ever replace a lap top.
Ah HA!!
1 Like
Yeah, I saw that. Didnât have time to dig, now I donât have to since Ars wrote about it.
The Obama administration attorneys said that this back-up system would be too onerous to search
I donât think they understand the purpose of backups then.
In a 2012 report, the Treasury Departmentâs Inspector General for Tax Administration noted that a July 2011 disaster recovery test failed
So they wrote a report in May of 2012 that a project done in July of 2011 failed. Good thing they are so strong on following up immediately to testing failures. A lot of places would have waited years to write it up.
Apparently her work blackberry was totally wiped and/or destroyed after the investigation started as well.
Nothing to see here, move along. Weâve always been at war with Eastasia.
In the almost 9 years Iâve been with my current employer, weâve never done full-scale DR test or large-scale data restore. I have no idea whether weâd pass a true test or not.
I, uhâŚnot sure where I was going with that,
But if you did a test I would hope youâd cover the results sooner than 10 months later.
1 Like
I dunno. Weâve brought consultants in for 5-figure engagements to evaluate our environment and then (apparently) never looked at the final report (or if we did, nothing they told us to implement was implemented).
I wish that didnât sound so likely, and slightly familiar.
Iâve rarely seen anybody really test DR. The one lot I knew who took it seriously went through the complete exercise (including randomly selecting folks who then werenât available) every 6 months - but they did have a standby environment they could use.
DH has a practice DR run every spring and a real test every August. The same week school starts. Which sucks for us, but since he works for a company that deals with financial crap on one side and medical crap on the other, Iâm glad they do it⌠I can only imagine the ramifications if they didnât have a usable plan.
edited because autocorrect sucks and i apparently canât read.
We did scheduled DR testing at Boeing, and actually had to invoke a lot of the procedures for hurricanes. But thatâs here, at the nimble Houston facility, which at the time only had 3k people and a single data center. I canât imagine how things would go at one of the big multi-building data centers like Bellevue or (now) Phoenix.
Even during our actual hurricanes, we didnât have to pull any tapes, though. I canât think of an instance where Iâve ever really witnessed a completely successful deep backup tape restoreâlike, âpull this tape set from the vault and have Iron Mountain deliver it hereâ type of deep restore.
Then maybe we shouldnât require them by federal law. It just gives a false sense of security. If its this easy to bypass what is the point to begin with.
At some point I hope the people of this country remember that they are the ones in charge and start paying attention to what the people they vote for actually do in office.
Exchange Server?? - IRS IT Dept. Head
Hey, it just so happens the next five people they asked for emails from had computer crashes too! I think that takes the total up to 11. Plus the EPA guy. Letâs go for a bakerâs dozen.
I was always pushing for DR tests. At my last place we did the ârandom userâ thing where we gave him the binder and said, âBring up the systemâ. It was in a warm site though so no real scariness. Now then thereâs the time I went down to Texas where another company that just bought us out wanted to show off their data center. They were doing their quarterly tests and I got to be the random guy. I was taken to the LIVE PRODUCTION network and power rack and told to start pulling cables. Anything was game. They wanted to make sure the backup systems would start up. At the time the head IT guy (you know, the Unix guy with a beard and not the PR dude in a suit) was touting a 98% uptime or something like that. In essence, they were allowed to be down for 2 hours a year. Or at least that was his goal.
So what happened? Did the backup systems work?
Oh yeah. I yanked some power cables, some network cables and a bunch of fiber. Everyone sat with this quizzical look up to the ceiling waiting for alarms to go off. Then they added another switch to the rack and re-wired part of it.
The dude was really proud of his setup. He said you could use the AC units as generators in a pinch or something like that (this was a good 15 years ago).
2 Likes