[Ipg-smz] Explosive Mueller controversy

[Stephen Satchell]

On 4/18/19 10:26 PM, David Needle wrote:
> Also, the Report was delivered to Congress on ... CD-ROM!
> https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/mueller-report-congress-cds.html

In another story I read, that writer was trying to explain why the
report was delivered on CD-ROM.  "Government offices still have working
CD drives" is the line that stuck out.  What the author failed to
realize that, as of today, many computers still ship with some sort of
CD, DVD, or Blu-Ray drive, and those "quaint" CD-ROMs are easily read by
this galazy of drive devices.  Outboard drives are readily available --
I bought my Blu-Ray USB drive at Costco.

The author did make a point that stirred some memories: legal discovery
will substitute a CD-ROM disc for boxes of papers.  When I was required
to tap an e-mail account as sysadmin at a web hosting company, I
delivered my work product to the IRS on CD-ROM, complete with checksum
information on the label and on a paper affidavit.  (Never heard from
the IRS after that -- and that was more than 10 years ago.)