Now IRS Reports EVEN MORE Computer Crashes, Doesn’t Know If Emails Still Exist
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At this point you want to start asking who supplies their hard drives...
~18 years ago, the implementation of a Windows network at Social Security was derailed several months when it was discovered that a lot of hard drives had been assembled using self-tapping screws.
~18 years ago, the implementation of a Windows network at Social Security was derailed several months when it was discovered that a lot of hard drives had been assembled using self-tapping screws.
In case you guys missed it, the EPA also has this problem.
EPA: UM, YEAH, WE TOTALLY HAD A HARD DRIVE CRASH THAT WIPED OUT CRUCIAL EMAILS, TOO
EPA: UM, YEAH, WE TOTALLY HAD A HARD DRIVE CRASH THAT WIPED OUT CRUCIAL EMAILS, TOO
I wish I still sold Storage to Fed, they seem to need a whole lot of hard drives, back-up solutions and DR implementations.
Has anyone checked the "Customer" sections on any of the major players for storage or hard drive sales (direct or resell)? I wonder if any government agency logos have recently been removed... Haha.
Hard drives really aren't the issue. They fail all the time. Anybody that runs a real email system archives all email to a centralized server and backs up that server, which should have RAID protection, to tape or some other permanent storage. Unfortunately the IRS systems are administered by civil service slackers.
C'mon, you seriously believe these hard drives failed? Be honest. The chances of all of these drives failing is astronomical, literally.
I think they are just throwing this stuff out there to see what level of tomfoolery will be defended. Some of this stuff is truly wacky.
Lol.
"What're ya gonna do, punk? We're the freakin' IRS."
*knee to the groin*
The government depends on us for money. We could literally just come out and say, "Yeah, there's some really crazy stuff that we didn't want to get out, so we just paid for professionals to wipe out all of our pertinent data," and no one will touch us.
This is all from the whole Tea Party targeting thing? But, there has to be more hidden in there they don't want out. The fear of being targeted should be the least of our fears. I'm not going conspiracy here - I just truly do not see any reason why the IRS would really be TOO concerned if we all found out that Tea Party groups were targeted. It would be a little black eye on the IRS but they could get over that - fire Lois Lerner and a few others and apologize to the targeted groups. They are practically digging up corpses, moving them to unidentified locations, and blowing up the old graves in an effort to not get caught shoplifting a shirt and pants.
No, not necessarily - if there are emails showing the president asked the IRS to do this, they would have serious problems.
Which is why several hundred HDDs will likely fail in the next few weeks / months. Meet the new boss...
If I owe the IRS any money, I hope that information was on one of those drives.
Somehow I doubt it.
Somehow I doubt it.
I dont know how many failed or what percentage it was and I'm guessing that many of these failures were helped by the treatment of the laptop. However you missed the point of my post. A properly designed email system shouldn't rely on laptop hard drives for long term storage.
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