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Ars is reporting someone at the DOJ said they have the Lois Lerner emails in off-site backup tapes.
Unnamed Department of Justice attorneys admitted to an attorney from the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch that backups exist of the e-mail messages of former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner. In a press release on the organization’s website, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said that the DOJ official claimed that accessing the specific e-mails in response to a lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch against the IRS would be too difficult, as they were retained in an offsite backup for disaster recovery.
Then the Whitehouse promptly denied this.
An unnamed White House official told The Hill that no new backups had been discovered. "The administration official said that the inspector general is examining whether any data can be recovered from the previously recycled back-up tapes and suggested that could be the cause of the confusion between the government and Judicial Watch," The Hill's Bernie Becker reported.
Isn't government corruption theater fun?
(Score: 5, Funny) by DECbot on Thursday August 28 2014, @11:38PM
You see, this is a Windows backup tape.... it won't work in Unix, so there's no way you can grep for that.
No, not even in Linux...
Seriously, you don't understand, it's too complex. This is a Windows backup tape. It only works in Windows machines, specifically Windows 2003 with the Exchange server installed and configured correctly, and with a Microsoft Support agent logged in remotely to assist with reading the tape. Even then the tape can't always be read because you might have the wrong updates installed, and you can't know what updates you need to read the tape.
It just cannot be read cause you know, 'cause the tape is in analog and computers are digital, 'n stuff.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 1) by E_NOENT on Thursday August 28 2014, @11:43PM
Masterful!
I'm not in the business... I *am* the business.
(Score: 4, Informative) by hemocyanin on Thursday August 28 2014, @11:51PM
When I first got a tape recorder to record programs I wrote for my TRS-80 CoCo back in the early 80s -- the first thing I did was test whether reading the tape also erased -- like the computer would just suck the data off. ;-) Ahhh ... to be a kid again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 29 2014, @12:40AM
I had a TRS-80 II. it was what 4k memory? Wrote a lottery pick program with it, took up all 4k after trimming it to fit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 29 2014, @10:03AM
Did you win? The lottery i mean.
(Score: 5, Funny) by el_oscuro on Friday August 29 2014, @01:19AM
I always thought that if you needed to restore, you had to install the tape drive above the computer so the data could flow back downhill. And never use those 15k RPM hard disks. They are too fast and sometimes the bits fly off as they spin. You can always tell when this happens as you will see something that looks like dust on the inside of the computer case.
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(Score: 2) by tathra on Friday August 29 2014, @04:56PM
it seems you're joking, but wouldn't differing filesystems make this actually be true? i don't know much about *nix, but from what i gather it hasn't always natively supported NTFS.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday August 29 2014, @06:07PM
No, not always. NTFS support was only added towards 2000, and at first it was labeled "experimental, read only". It's been there for quite awhile, though.
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