[ExI] blue screen = hard disk crash?

[BillK]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 8:13 PM, spike  wrote:
> We have already caught IRS officials offering highly dubious excuses and
> pleading the fifth amendment, we have a sitting US president still calling
> the whole thing a phony scandal, we have a known-corrupt attorney general
> who is taking no interest in the case.
>
> If the IRS can commit blatant spoliation of evidence with no serious
> consequences, what difference, at this point, what difference does it make?
>

I doubt if they have spoiled ALL the evidence. I think they are just
lying and delaying until it blows over and another scandal takes over
the headlines.

It is really silly to think that a crashed hard drive destroys all
your emails. Data on pcs should be backed up, especially if your job
depends on it. Big business uses mail servers, usually Microsoft
Exchange. These mail servers run on RAID disk systems, so that a
single server drive failure can be recovered. They also go to tape
backup for ever. Some companies even run duplicate mail servers, so
that if one server goes down, the company doesn't lose email
capability.

Do you really think that the IRS wouldn't be able to find email
documentation from years ago if they needed it to support a court case
they were engaged in?

No IT techie believes a word of it.

BillK