Archive for September, 2008

So last week we saw Vice President candidate Sarah Palin’s personal Yahoo account being ‘hacked’.

The hackers broke into Mrs Palin’s personal Yahoo! email account, which she uses to send government emails in addition to her official Governor’s address. Critics did suggest that she and her office might use personal accounts to send information they want to keep secret, sidestepping public diclosure laws.

Interesting numbers put forth by TechRepublic last month:

• Only 25% of companies have policies and procedures for retention and archiving
• 71% of companies don’t provide ESI/eDiscovery training
• 59% of companies archive email but not IM

I can’t say I’m surprised. For those of us in the eDiscovery business, it’s very easy to forget that most people don’t have a clue that eDiscovery even exists, let alone realize how much money is wasted on it due to lack of preparation.