A lot of messages there this morning. John Jesson is the founder and managing director of EED, Electronic Evidence Discovery, a high-tech detective agency specializing in digital information retrieval.
Confidential information falling into the wrong hands is a fear shared by many businesses.
In most corporate environments computer files and e-mail are often backed up without anyone's knowledge, until a problem occurs and someone like John Jesson is hired to find it. So, you know, all of those perceptions of what e-mail is are wrong. Many of EED's most common investigations deal with product development and corporate confidentiality. People write the craziest stuff. We ran across one in a litigation where one employee was speaking to another and she said, 'Hi, David.