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Fund Manager's Trial Underscores Fragility of Cloud Data

Posted by: Frederick Lane on 22 September 2009

Tagged in: workplace forensics , Google , e-mail(s) , criminal , cloud forensics

The conspiracy, securities fraud, and wire fraud trial of former Bear Sterns fund manager Matthew Tannin offers an object lesson for computer forensic specialists and electronic investigators on the fragility of cloud data. At issue, the Wall Street Journal reports, is whether the government can introduce evidence that Tannin deleted his Google mail account in March 2008, rendering the information unrecoverable for trial eighteen months later.

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