Did you know?

• That when requesting another party’s metadata, timing is everything?

• That corporate blog entries/twitters are already entering the eDiscovery landscape as discoverable?

• That a standard DVD-R single layer can only hold ~4.7GB of information and takes ~30minutes to fully burn, whereas copying 4.7GB of files to a hard drive will only take 5 minutes?

• That transporting your sensitive evidence in an unsafe container, like a cardboard box, is ok until that box is dropped on the floor or lands in a puddle?

• That MAPI = Messaging Application Programming Interface, and it allows access to email content and metadata?

• That retrieving passwords by asking the person who created the password is usually much faster than trying to break it with software?

• That Microsoft XLS documents will print thousands and thousands of blank pages if your software doesn’t detect and remove them?

• That Lotus Notes has a soft delete option that activates when you open a NSF and it will automatically delete emails marked with soft delete?

• That PDF files have multiple levels of security, where you can open a PDF, but might not be able to print it?

• That 1 gigabyte of information is actually 1,024 megabytes, not 1,000 megabytes?

• That TruCrypt encryption can be applied to a full disk on a hard drive, or just to a small container that can be FTP’d?

• That printing electronic files to paper is, in many cases, totally unnecessary and wasteful?

• That Lotus Notes databases (.NSF) can contain non-email related content, like customer complaint forms and inventory records?

• That documents have multiple dates and usually the file system level dates (e.g. Last Accessed Date) are bad due to copy issues?

• That Mozilla Thunderbird emails can be easily processed by most eDiscovery applications?