When systems provider Autonomy searched Enron’s electronically stored information (ESI) in a demonstration of a new method it calls meaning-based computing, the search for the term “book loss” turned up code names the now-defunct energy company had used to hide its financial misdeeds.
“We found code words Raptor, Roadrunner, Porcupine, Pronghorn and Grizzly used to name some of the off-balance sheet vehicles, partnerships and transactions that brought Enron down,” says Jack Halprin, Autonomy’s vice president of e-discovery.
