We had submissions from two different Soylentils on this story about an IT worker for the company which managed Hillary Clinton's email server apparently looking for help on how to wipe email addresses.
The Gateway Pundit reports:
An employee with Platte River Networks, the company in charge of Hillary Clinton's home server, who was granted immunity from Obama's Department of Justice in their investigation of Clinton, reportedly asked for assistance in July 2014 from Reddit users on how to purge emails and how to strip VIP's email address from "a bunch of archived emails":
"Hello all- I may be facing a very interesting situation where I need to strip out a VIP's (VERY VIP) email address from a bunch of archived email that I have both in a live Exchange mailbox, as well as a PST file. Basically, they don't want the VIP's email address exposed to anyone, and want to be able to either strip out or replace the email address in the to/from fields in all of the emails we want to send out. I am not sure if something like this is possible with PowerShell, or exporting all of the emails to MSG and doing find/replaces with a batch processing program of some sort. Does anyone have experience with something like this, and/or suggestions on how this might be accomplished?"
Paul Combetta, the IT guy who used BleachBit to wipe email servers for Hillary Clinton, went on Reddit in July 2014 and asked this question:
Remove or replace to/from address on archived emails?
Hello all- I may be facing a very interesting situation where I need to strip out a VIP's (VERY VIP) email address from a bunch of archived email that I have both in a live Exchange mailbox, as well as a PST file. Basically, they don't want the VIP's email address exposed to anyone, and want to be able to either strip out or replace the email address in the to/from fields in all of the emails we want to send out.
Paul Combatta was given immunity by the Justice Department.
If you check the timeline you find that in July 2014 there were outstanding FOIA requests but Congress had not yet subpoenaed the email server.
One of the commenters on the Reddit thread said: "If there was a feature in Exchange that allowed this, it could result in major legal issues."
(Score: 5, Funny) by mrsam on Tuesday September 20 2016, @11:58AM
I can't understand this. Can someone explain to me why go through all this trouble just to delete your yoga pictures, and pictures of your daughter's wedding?
Puzzled...
(Score: 5, Funny) by inertnet on Tuesday September 20 2016, @12:15PM
You're hillaryous.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @05:57PM
Even more puzzled by the fact that the guy, having been granted immunity from prosecution by the DOJ, would then refuse to testify before the house oversight committee. What kind of yoga pictures require the use of bleachbit to erase 30,000 emails?
(Score: 1) by bucket58 on Tuesday September 20 2016, @09:03PM
What kind of yoga pictures require the use of bleachbit to erase 30,000 emails?
Do they make EyeBleachbit? Because that would actually be useful in this case.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @11:54PM
How is that puzzling? Don't the mafia use to do this kinda stuff on folks granted immunity by the authorities against them?