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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Question please for our local computer gurus. The IRS is claiming that a bunch of evidence was accidentally lost because a hard disk crashed on the computer of the IRS director and six others within the IRS closely associated with the investigation. Today the IRS’ attorney made this comment:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black;background:white'>“Lerner walked into her office one day and her computer screen was blue. Her hard drive had crashed.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Questions please computer hipsters: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'>- Does a crashed hard drive cause a blue screen? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'>- Is there anything else that can cause a blue screen?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'>- What does a BIOS failure do? Blue screen?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'>- Does a failed memory module on the motherboard cause a blue screen?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'>- Assuming a disk failure, if action is taken immediately, is any of the data on the disk recoverable?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'>- Can a failed drive have any other consequences, such as a black screen with large white text? I see that sometimes.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'>- A blue screen has no info on it, ja? So how would the user know it was a disk crash?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'>- Are there other ways to retrieve email if a disk crashes?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It would be interesting to me if this whole thing could be cracked open by the IRS’ computer failure reports. We just look at that report plus the reports of the six other critical disks and see if their users reported blue screens on the same day. If so, it suggests a targeted virus of some sort (ja?) If they all simultaneously suffered some mysterious mechanical failure that day (such as from impact with the floor or a 12 pound sledge hammer) we are on to something else, but the point of this post is that Americans should not brush off that question. Reason: DiskGate has pointed out the IRS has no constitutional limits on its authority to destroy you for whatever reason it wants. The 4<sup>th</sup> amendment does not apply to their prosecution of you, but they can claim the 5<sup>th</sup> and walk away. You can’t. They can demand any record they want of you from years past, but they are not held accountable for losing their own recent records. They can just claim the critical disks all crashed, not a smidgen of corruption can be proved, they should be given more money to buy better disks.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So does a crashed disk cause a BSOD?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>