tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034478.post230455639181226337..comments2024-03-18T21:33:55.514-04:00Comments on Doug Ross @ Journal: TECHNOLOGY EXPERTS BRING THE THUNDER: 6 Brutal Questions for the IRS Regarding its "Lost" EmailsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034478.post-49468454099362441722014-07-24T03:52:44.226-04:002014-07-24T03:52:44.226-04:00I've worked in the IT field at a Fortune 100 c...I've worked in the IT field at a Fortune 100 company for nearly 20 years. I was the last line of defense for serious computer issues and I dealt with thousands of bad hard drives. The first thing I would do is use forensic tools like R-Studio to try and recover data from the drive, track by track. If the drive was unreadable or the PC wold not recognize the drive, we offered the user the option to send the drive out to Ontrack Data Recovery services. They have a 95%+ success rate at recovering data, which they would burn to DVD's and ship back to us. It was expensive, with an average price of $2500 - but if the data was valuable and irreplaceable, the price was an acceptable loss.<br /><br />The question I have is, if a Fortune 100 company has a data recovery plan in place that includes using Ontrack Data Recovery services for recovering important data - why doesn't the government?bsd2000https://www.blogger.com/profile/10428627336725892982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034478.post-2654936474188069452014-07-24T02:26:02.536-04:002014-07-24T02:26:02.536-04:00How about one brutal question: "Was it Barack...How about one brutal question: "Was it Barack Obama or Valerie Jarrett who gave the order to do this?".<br /><br />How about a second brutal question: Why is John Boehner still GOP Squeaker? TheFineReport.comhttp://thefinereport.comnoreply@blogger.com