Posted on 07/11/2009 11:45:21 AM PDT by NCjim
Raleigh, N.C. — A data-recovery firm cannot retrieve some messages from the personal e-mail account of former North Carolina State University Chancellor James Oblinger, a university lawyer told federal investigators Friday.
Meanwhile, a federal grand jury investigating the dealings former Gov. Mike Easley had with friends and contributors while in office now wants to look at communications between the state Division of Motor Vehicles and several Easley aides and supporters.
N.C. State turned over four more batches of documents Friday to the grand jury, which in May subpoenaed all university records regarding N.C. State's hiring and promotion of Easley's wife, Mary Easley.
University officials said last month that no e-mails before June 11, 2005, could be found in an account Oblinger used for high-priority communications. The account was opened in January 2005 when Oblinger took over as chancellor, and Oblinger was the only person who could access it.
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Ping
Sure hope they still nail him.
Maybe he can be Jim Black’s (former speaker of NC house) roommate. Jim just got transferred to Georgia. In North Carolina you join the Democrat party instead of the mob.
Not to get off subject here, but does anyone know of a good program that will permanently delete files and “mirror images” from a HD?
One that will run on 64-bit Vista...
The only way that I know of is to reinitialize the entire hard drive. When you reinitialize a hard drive, basically you use a utility that over writes the whole drive with ones and zeros. Every area of the hard drive is cleansed.
You do this by going to the hard drive manufacturer’s web site and downloading the utility they provide for this purpose. Every drive manufacturer provides just such a utility, though some of them have begun to call it a Low Level Format utility, terminology that dates back to the old MFM hard drive days when a drive could have the tracks and sectors defined using a low level format.
Hmm...I think these guys would know:
www.NCDemocratparty.org
When it comes to erasing, deleting, or losing documents, their record is unsurpassed.
The Feds should subpeona the Chancellor
I be damn!! Who would’ve guess it???
I used a program called ‘Eraser’. Not sure if it’s compatible w/ 64 bit. Search for it in Google or another search engine. Free
It will overwrite a file 7 or 35 times, your choice. Supposed to make the file irretrievable.
Using it for an entire hard drive might not be practical though.
Also, I'll go out on a limb and guess that 98% of the emails retrieved are "Hey, where are we going to lunch?" "LOL I think McD's"
Maybe more like 99.8%.....
People whine when they don't have it, but EMail is a pretty fluff application.
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