This was a great read! For others, the less interesting thing was the contents of the emails, the more interesting thing was how to make sure they got sent:

So we decided to hedge our bets by storing the data at three very different institutions: first, at Forbes, the longtime lion of capitalism; second, at the Internet giant Yahoo, which had then become a $55-billion company after several years of fast growth; and finally, at Codefix Consulting, a one-man consultancy run by a friend of mine from college, Garrison Hoffman.