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IRS Backup Tapes
« on: February 11, 2015, 11:06:57 AM »
Gee, what a shocker. Exactly what everyone who has even a cursory knowledge of enterprise system knows: The IRS had backups of the "completely destroyed and unrecoverable" emails.

Of course now that time has passed with the Emmys, and Oscars, and "yeah sports!" and "Look! A butterfly!" it will likely all be for naught.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/11/johnson-asks-how-80000-lost-lerner-emails-were-recovered-by-irs-watchdog/
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Re: IRS Backup Tapes
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2015, 11:42:20 AM »
I think if a few bureaucrats were tarred and feathered or put up against the wall peridocally it might pour encourager les autres.
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Re: IRS Backup Tapes
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2015, 11:52:06 AM »

Yep. The IRS lied.

Very very few folks of any significant size lack backups. And usually with emails live in a mailbox for some time, stretching them across multiple backups. Maybe not any single email, but statically 80,000 emails will be duplicated across multiple tapes.
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Re: IRS Backup Tapes
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2015, 05:22:35 PM »
also got us past the mid term elections, IIRC
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Re: IRS Backup Tapes
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2015, 01:25:45 AM »
Imagine that, the IRS lied

pretty much anyone who has ever done IT work for the .gov knew that when it first happened.
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Re: IRS Backup Tapes
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2015, 07:12:28 AM »
Wouldn't the IRS be breaking the law if they didn't have their email backed up?

Not that it would matter.


Quote from: Fitz on February 12, 2015, 01:25:45 AM
Imagine that, the IRS lied

pretty much anyone who has ever done IT work for the .gov knew that when it first happened.

And anyone in Missouri that has paid attention to the news in the past eight years.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/17/661880/-The-e-mails-that-brought-down-a-Republican-Governor-Updated-2x
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