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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.
Clinton's IT contractor sought help removing or replacing to/from addresses on archived emails
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?"
Hillary Clinton IT worker asked Reddit how to tamper with email record
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: 4, Insightful) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday September 20 2016, @01:34PM
or (d) they honestly thought this was all legal and above board and they had nothing to fear and nothing to hide. I guess that could be the case if they are quite junior/ naive, and had been assured by higher-ups that there was nothing to worry about. The question asked does kind of imply that they were simply trying to keep the VERY VIP person's email address private.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @01:41PM
or (e) The reddit post is fake and designed to look like it was being posted by this particular person.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @06:35PM
From 12 years ago? I might believe it was a fake if it was more recent. I'm sure a lot of internet users stuck with the same username across many sites (like me) until they get into a situation where they start using different usernames, like govt for example.
(Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Wednesday September 21 2016, @12:24AM
putin was alive 12 years ago, wasn't he ? ? ?
check and mate ! ! ! (say the clintonistas)
The Russians are coming (again) !
The Russians are coming (again) !
(is this the farce part ? ? ?)