Lerner Hard Drive Was "Scratched"

The House Ways and Means Committee ^ | Tuesday, July 22, 2014

[sharkhawk]

Doesn’t the government require hard drive back ups, at least for executives?

[gura]

[Bogey78O]

Yup. Came here to note that. Death for a consumer but recoverable somewhat if you need to. Otherwise every criminal would just drop the running PC from 6 feet up as soon as they hear the cops knocking.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

It takes tools to open a HD in order to scratch it, or to see a scratch.

Someone must have broken into her office during the night to remove and scratch the hard drive, and then replace it. She didn't do it. Nobody saw her do it. You can't prove anything.

[publius911]

The worst thing is that we all KNOW that the Great Traitor is going to pardon her on 19 January, 2017.

That's not possible, unless she is indicted, arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced.
We just have to make that doesn't happen before Omugabe goes on his permanent vacation...
He can't issue "provisional" pardons.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

And there are federal laws on what has to be stored and for how long. Ease up on them. They only spend 1.8 billion dollars a year on IT. It’s not like it’s serious money.

[newnhdad]

I guess nobody told them not to hit it with a sledgehammer.... or maybe they did..

[mowowie]

First you need a tiny little torx srewdiver to open the case next you need a sharp nail to scratch a (one?) platter......

Yea right, arrest this bitch NOW....

[publius911]

The innocuous way : the “scratch” was likely the needle that reads the data scratching against the surface of the drive. It can happen from use over time, a power disruption while writing to the drive, etc.

Needle?
WTF?

Since hard drives were invented in the late 80s early 90s, they have been non contact devices.
The reading head is designed to float a bunch of microns above the recording surface. There ain't no needle involved.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Everybody is missing the point. Anyone with a computer should be scared as anything because this was a smart virus that only tracked down Lerner and those associated with her. This proves computers have become self aware.

[mowowie]

Instead of Lerner how about investigating Valerie Jarrett’s E-Mails?

[fivecatsandadog]

Looking for files that were sent as attachments on the email?

[redshawk]

...I’m in the industry and let me spell it out for you. Server space is limited and most companies have a mailbox size limit. Once you hit that limit, you archive your mail to a local pst file. Then old mail is deleted. That pst file is stored on your local hard drive. There are tape backups of the mail store on the server but those get recycled every so often depend on how you have things set up. Typically backups get stored with a company like iron mountain and they go back 7 years.<\i>

I concur with you. My firm, 500 strong, has a policy about mailbox limit size. It seems that twice a month the IT dept would let me know that I must do the PST file thing to remove the emails from the server. Until I did this, my incoming email box was blocked. As for the rest of your post, I cannot speculate, however, it seems plausible.

[House Atreides]

At my most recent work, the organization also has a mailbox limited size and would block the ability to send/receive should that limit be exceeded. HOWEVER, FOR SENIOR EXECUTIVES (Lois Lerner’s position) the limit was HUGE.

If approaching the max allowed size for the mailbox, large files/records could be easily moved to PST files set up for that purpose. Both the mailbox and the PST files WERE HOUSED ON SERVERS. Working copies could have been kept on the individual’s hard drives also for efficiency.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

“Scratched” or “Snatched”?

I’ve never seen such organizational and individual corruption in all my years in and around the government.

Apparently Obama and Pelosi’s definition of “transparency” refers to showing things to a blind person.

That is a “transparency” America cannot live with.

Jail isn’t good enough for Lerner, Cummings, Kosinken, etc.

[redshawk]

I agree with you. My boss, a senior executive, has unlimited email storage size. My company backs-up daily and archives twice per week. We Hot Swap Hard drives daily and have multiple raid type redundacy system archives. I'm not IT, but what I do know is that emails are stored on and in, many different places and that Hard copies of discs and hard drives and every thing else are locked up in various bank vaults in triplicate.

My gut tells me that the IRS is covering up for 0bammy. Ms Lois will fall on the sword. It's just a matter of time.

[marketz1]

The truth will come out.

[tophat9000]

non-technical way to say they head skipped off the platter ..not a true head crash..so multiple bad sectors.. that relatively easy recovery

[Chaguito]

Rope-a-dope tactics with a lot of mocking on the part of the executive branch.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The most telling piece of info is this;

Even if a head crash were to have happened on Lois Lerner's hard drive the emails would have been unaffected.

In a corporate or enterprise level infrastructure, data like that is not stored locally but on an Exchange (or other) server and also on a storage array with drives mounted for that server and also mirrored onto other arrays and then exported to tape or some other media which is moved offsite for archive.

The IRS thinks that no one knows this. If Congress were to start threatening IT people, they would start coming out of the woodwork...probably with the wanted data in hand.