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Boston’s Missing Email Case Has Many People Asking Questions about Digital Forensics

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

On September 14, Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin ordered the city of Boston to seize computers and software used by Mayor Menino’s aide, Michael J. Kineavy. Under question is whether Kineavy may have violated state law by deleting emails. According to the news articles, Kineavy deleted emails from his inbox and trash folder every day, possibly before the city’s systems made a backup. Alan N. Cote, head of the public records division in Galvin’s office, ordered the city to hire “a qualified independent and competent technology expert to employ all reasonable means of recovering and restoring the missing records”.

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