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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
Am I the only one who finds it weird and suspicious to find “emails” on a laptop hard drive? You could look at my laptop hard drive right now and I don’t think you’d find any emails unless they are in a temporary cache. I’m no expert but I don’t think that is how emails are stored....
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The whole thing is crazy. No, it is unlikely you are going to find "emails" on a computer, especially since so many interests are using cloud based services where there is no client on the computer. Even if there was a client on the system, you have to gain access to the file that holds the data (.pst/.ost for an Exchange based system for example). To gain access to that you would have to have appropriate credentials or administrative access to load the data through the client. It's not like emails are sitting around in .pdf format waiting for anyone to access them. It should also be noted that most large organizations, especially those with security concerns, employ full disk encryption so instances like this don't happen, and that dropping your computer off a third party repair center like this would not lead to anything but the most basic of repairs. Actually accessing the drive would be impossible without very advanced equipment and processing to crack the encryption.
Another thing about this that is sketchy as hell is the guy was supposed to be repairing the equipment, but he instead snooped around and was gong through the files on the customer's computer. That is highly unethical and illegal in some ways, depending on the data. The fact that he made multiple copies of the hard drive, and then shared them with multiple parties, is also sketchy as hell. This guy pretty well just ended his business and opened himself up to lawsuits. Who in their right mind does this stuff... unless its a setup? This is such a series of contradictions that it really makes no sense in any shape or form.
Now back to Crazytown where the implausible supposedly happens every day.