Coming in this morning, I fired up my e-mail, etc., etc.
And there’s a message from the CIO (or, as it turns out, send under his name). Interesting.
You are amongh a group of affected users to an event that occured over the weekend. The was a government security issue with our mail server in [snip], and hence the server has been brought down. All data had to be removed from the server. Using backup tapes, we have been able to restore the mail up to, and including, last Monday. At the moment it is not possible to restore more of the mail. Once we have received permission from the relevant government agencies, we will restore the remaining data to the extent that it is possible. It is important to note that this was not caused by an internal problem within [our company], nor is it due to a hardware failure.
Which makes me wonder what (classified stuff?) slipped into our mail system, and how. We do a lot of Federal work; some of it is classified, though mostly in other business units and mail systems.
And, yes, a cursory examination indicates that all my e-mail, back to last Tuesday, is gone. (Which is intersting, because I’d have thought that it would sync back to my offline message store. Evidently not.)
Hmmm. There was some moderately important e-mail in there. And moreover, possibly some responses to things I sent out on Friday morning.
But that would explain why I was getting overdue reminders for To-Do things and apponitments that had already passed. Hmmm.
Perhaps you can work this into a Spycraft session.
Hey, at least the government is being nice.
When we accidentally ended up with classified info on one of the one of the server drives where I used to work, being nice consisted of them letting you swing the sledge hammer to smash the drive.
Well, we’re clearly on a different server this morning, albeit with the same name, so I’m not discounting that particular brand of niceness.
A couple of government agency’s initials have been bandied about. More as I learn it and feel comfortable talking about it.