I recently had the privilege to hear David Jesse Coker, Attorney & Counselor at Law speak at my ISSA local chapter meeting. David gave a great presentation on Digital Forencsic & E-Discovery Countermeasures. One thing that really stuck out in my mind after the meeting, was what David said about In Re Honza, 242 S.W.3d 578 (Tex. App. Waco 2009).

Did you know that the court makes it clear In Honza that a firm’s entire hard drive can be imaged/cloned by an expert as the first part of the electronic discovery process, even when the scope pertains to a very limited amount of information contained on the computer?

The files are *in* the computer.