Well... Again this is far out of NDA time, the documents were not on site anymore.

That said, I would be willing to bet that doing such an act, even as a client, would be problematic on other levels.

Let's remember; part of this whole contract with a company like this, is they are guaranteeing that your organization is following document retention processes. The sort of stuff that makes it really easy to pass things like a SOX audit.

Cause, I've worked at other places. The kinds of places where you come in on a Saturday, there's a whole bunch of document bins out in the middle of the office that weren't there on a Saturday, everything is gone by Monday, and a bunch of people one to two slots under the C level resign within a week, and within the next 6-12 months all of the office gossip is either the bankruptcy proceedings impacting operations or the civil RICO lawsuit from the departed founder.