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. Please destroy the evidence on the litigation that you and I talked about today. Hi, Laura, acknowledged your message. All taken care of. We have about 400,000 software programs now in our library, and so with that software you need the corresponding hardware.