
So forwhatever reasonyou forget to log into your hotmail account for a month or so. When you finally get around to it, you’re told that your account has been suspended for inactivity. If you’re dormant too long, you may come back and find that all of your email has been wiped – just a blip on the electron radar, never to be seen again. But hey, it’s Hotmail, and you’re not paying for the service, nor does Hotmail even know who you really are. What happens if your name is Zacarias Moussaoui, you’re being held in a prison for conspiring to commit a terrorist act against the United States, and you claim that the data to clear your name is stored in your Hotmail account? But the feds want to getgeekyon you, and they waste precious time and now all traces of your virtual existance have been erased. Or so the story goes.




