Lerner Hard Drive Was "Scratched"

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

[apoliticalone]

The system and political elites and their media that run it are corrupt. They are not held accountable but we are.

[batterycommander]

I believe that a sense of panic is growing within the administration and wise members of that administration are planning for their exits with whatever respect that they can salvage. These scandals have been devastating.

[Paladin2]

"how in the world do you “scratch” a hard drive?"

Partly disassemble drive, scratch disk, reassemble. Simple really.

[unixfox]

The data is not stored on their local hard drive. Let me repeat that...

THE DATA IS NOT STORED ON THEIR LOCAL HARD DRIVE.

It is stored on a server that gets backed up daily. And that server has at least one or more backup servers as well. In other words they are replicated in more than one location. The reason for this is for catastrophic events like hurricanes or fire.

Now, why won't anyone ask the question:

"What would happen if a computer was lost in a fire, flood, stolen or any other event?"

I've been in IT for 30 years and have lots of experience with data recovery and networking. Simply put, they are ALL lying and covering for their king. They should all be in prison by now.

[kidd]

You didn’t read my post.

Since you’ve been in IT for 30 years, perhaps you can answer my question:

Hard drives DO store valuable information. Sensitive information. And I’m not talking e-mails. Sensitive memos. Spreadsheets. etc

If someone as important as the Director of the IRS had a crashed hard drive, wouldn’t you expect that the cost would be justified to recover that information?

The Director of the IRS would be expected to have sensitive information on her computer that SHOULDN’T be backed up to a server.

Why wasn’t any data recovery done on her hard drive?

[rlapuma]

I know a great deal about hard drive infrastructure. There is no way to scratch one without not only removing it from the chassis but you must then cotort around the protective casing.

[CharleysPride]

“scratched” as in repeatedly hit with a hammer and stabbed with an icepick.

[defconw]

Years ago, when people still used tapes. I worked at a data center. We had back ups of back ups. We had some federal contracts that we ran on big wheels and sent them a the tape. We kept a copy of the tape. Some time later we went to platters. Platters were easily broken. So we went to virtual drives. Now I was on the human end of things. So of course that job is no more.

We were required by law to keep things depending on what they were any where from 1 week to perpetuity. Most of the Gov't stuff was a minimum of 7 years. My point is, I am not sure what sort of tech they are using. But I can virtually(pardon the pun), guarantee, there are backups, somewhere.

[Spacetrucker]

**Lois “Marcy” Lerner.
My wager is 08/23/14 @ 10:30AM with the tie breaker being the clock. Any takers?**
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Ahh, the good ol’ days, when the unwanted just turned up on a park bench...

[blackdog]

And Chandra Levey just jogged for health reasons.