Hiding Sensitive Data Can Be Tough in a Digital Age
Steve Schear
schear at lvcm.com
Mon Jan 14 13:31:23 PST 2002
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13 The modern task of successfully destroying
electronic documents has become daunting enough to give Oliver North
nightmares.
Mr. North is the Marine officer who became notorious during the Reagan-era
Iran-contra scandal after it was discovered he had tried to delete
thousands of e-mail messages, only to discover that they had been retained
on backup tapes and made available to Congressional investigators.
The issue of the destruction and possible retrieval of electronic data
burst into the news last week after Arthur Andersen & Company, the auditors
for the Enron Corporation (news/quote), said that the accounting firm had
destroyed a "significant but undetermined" number of documents relating to
Enron and its finances.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/14/technology/ebusiness/14DELE.html
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