stealing a mail server

On the bus yesterday, two IT guys were sitting opposite me, talking shop.
Then one of them said something like "did you hear XXX got their mail
server stolen on the weekend?"
Not sure of the company name, it wasn't anyone Fortune 500.
Then explained that 3 guys went there, 2 dressed as security guards and
one went down the fire escape with the removed server.
I didn't hear anything about this in the news.
The victim company must be too embarrassed to admit such a thing
happened.
Seems like a specific target to grab. Must be something worth
knowing in those e-mails.

 

INSIDE JOB!

 

Presuming of course that they kept a copy of all emails on the server.

 

In most business situations, this is a given.

 

Sounds like a modification of the plot in an episode of "Shameless" (in the
final season, from memory).

There're far easier ways to gain access to corporate e-mails, especially if
the company in question was stupid enough to run M$ Exchange.

 

Place I worked at used a nice piece of server software called
"MDaemon", and for some reason or other declined to keep a copy of all
emails on the server. I know because I was hunting in there one day
and came across the settings.

They also ran Outlook, I think it was the first iteration when it came
out - buggy big time!

I suspected that all of this was an employment protection scheme from
the sole IT guy.

If companies keep a copy of all emails, are they obliged to inform
staff?

 

So using POP3 - not the most intelligent thing for a business, given that
they _would_ eventually be called upon to provide documentary evidence of
something in e-mail if a legal dispute (either internally or externally)
were to arise. Then again, perhaps they were going for the "plausible
deniability" angle?

It'd be the same as shredding all business documents immediately after
reading even though you know you're obliged to keep them for at least five
years - or storing them in the flood-prone basement in the hopes of being
able to say "oops" when called on to produce evidentiary documents.

Nothing much changes - the bells have been polished and the whistles
re-tuned, but Outlook is still a piece of shit in its 15th (I think?)
iteration.

A possibility, though no network is so intricately "spaghettied" that it
can't be taken over by a competent network admin.

No, because standard terms of employment state that everything you create
during work time is the property of the company. If you're using work e-mail
to send scans of your buttocks to a co-worker, you've no legal leg to stand
on.

 

Yep they even electronically read them and if enough "scores" appear
they then actually read them.
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