On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 04:16:50PM -0400, Jonathan Edwards wrote: > On Sep 6, 2007, at 14:48, Nicolas Williams wrote: > >Allowing for technical illiteracy in judges I think the obvious > >interpretation is that discoverable data should be retained and that > >"but it exists only in RAM" is not a defense, and rightly so. > > hang on .. let me take it out and give it to you .. > > I'm thinking this seems to get into v-chip territory, or otherwise > providing a means for agencies to track information that might have > passed through a system .. err, for the safety of our children and > such :P
That "but it existed only in RAM in my servers" should not be a defense for failing to retain discoverable evidence is distinct from the issue of what constitutes discoverable evidence. Should web site access logs be retained? That seems like a political issue to me, but if some statute says that they must be retained then "but a power outage ate my RAM's contents" shouldn't cut it as a defense. Isn't that obvious? Or must one be a lawyer to understand that down is up? _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss