I watched it. Why did they buy any software if they had no interest in backing up or archiving? Was it some sort of payback scheme for campaign contributions? Something smells rotten.
Rotten...you got it, it was a pretend method of following the law without obligating their e mails to scrutiny I guess...I don’t know.
Maybe to give the impression that they were complying with the law. My employer is covered by SOX regulations, and we have quarterly recovery tests, where we have to show that we can restore from tape backups, and recover emails from our archiver (a device that copies every email sent or received, internal or external, that goes through our email system).
If we're not able to produce the sort of records demanded by investigators in a timely manner, the company can be hit with huge fines, and the executives could be imprisoned for up to 20 years.
Mark