Lois was too stupid to realize that her “lost” emails were archived by SonaSoft. She will need a case of Depends when she finds out SonaSoft has those “lost” emails.
What happens when the Justice Dept. or the President himself calls SonaSoft and tells them to lose the emails.
I’m starting to believe the rumor that GOPe was in on this too since they can’t be this stupid. They should have already locked down SonaSoft and retrieved backups yet the web is spreading the word and giving them time to kill these files as well.
This is specialized knowledge. Perhaps a few IT guys were aware of this contract and this software; however it runs on the servers, not on client desktops. A paper pusher would not know what happens to the email, and where it is stored. Many think that if they delete an email it gets deleted. That's not always so. MS Exchange is a complex system, and one can insert transport agents into many places of that system. Most people do not know what servers they connect to, and what are the backup procedures on those, and where offline backups are stored, and for how long. Managers of high rank are sometimes sufficiently arrogant to not ask the IT people about such details. After all, in order to ask a correct question you must know most of the answer already. People who are trained on simplistic "Press DEL and the email is gone" cannot even imagine that the email is not really gone.
Crash of a client's PC has no effect on the data. MS Exchange stores emails in MS SQL Server databases; many such databases can exist, and they can be all synchronized (replicated) for many reasons. For example, you cannot have 100,000 employees, who reside all over the planet, connect to one server. So there are multiple edge transport servers, hub transport servers, client access servers and mailbox servers. Just look here.
Believe me, SonaSoft NO LONGER HAS THE EMAILS!!!! The FBI has probably swept in there to gather the files to protect the FACIST DICTATOR!!!