On: I Was Google’s Head of International Relations

[jdashg]

It's wild that this continual destruction of evidence is not only tolerated but SOP. It's just so convenient! Imagine if commit messages disappeared after 6mo!

[jrockway → jdashg]

There is probably a desire to make commit messages go away after 6 months. I am guessing that the lawyers aren't putting much pressure on engineering teams because nobody has thought to "discover" commit messages in a major case yet (whereas email is routine).

[jonstewart → jdashg]

Well, the alternative is for every last written thing at a company--jokes, gripes, mistakes--to be scrutinized and taken out of context in court by an opposing side's legal team.

[goatinaboat → jdashg]

It's wild that this continual destruction of evidence is not only tolerated but SOP.

I bet it’s still on the backup tapes. So when slapped with a court order it will be an order of magnitude more expensive for them to disclose.

[candiodari → goatinaboat]

You destroy the encryption keys to those backups, not the data itself. This is a problem that has long been solved.