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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 Covalent on Tuesday September 20 2016, @01:37PM
I wonder why on Earth HRC used email in the first place.
Here in Detroit, we watch our mayor get taken down (and imprisoned) for texting. We all learned a valuable lesson that day: if you're gonna break the law, do it face to face. It's incredibly easy to impeach the credibility of a witness or keep them quiet with a little cash or blackmail.
But emails? They're forever, and if they go missing, they're as good as damning.
What bothers me more than the illegality and shadiness is the blatant stupidity and complete lack of understanding of how technology works.
You can't rationally argue somebody out of a position they didn't rationally get into.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @01:54PM
I prefer that our leaders damn themselves and get caught rather than get away with it.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by VLM on Tuesday September 20 2016, @02:23PM
If you think you're the corrupt and ruling establishment above the law, then it doesn't matter.
Look at what happened to Hillary. Oh yeah, the zillionth felony and she's not going to get prosecuted as usual.
Thanks to identity politics (the bane of democracy) its not like she's going to lose any votes either.
The only mistake Al Capone made was not going into politics.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @02:46PM
> What bothers me more than the illegality and shadiness is the blatant stupidity and complete lack of understanding of how technology works.
Do you know how direction injection internal combustion engines work?
Do you even know how elliptic curve encryption works?
Do you know the biochemical processes involved in your own fingernail growth?
We all use tools with only a minimal understanding of the details under the hood. Don't presume that your specialized knowledge about one set of tools is something everyone could have. There is a reason 99.99% of the population would never find a site like soylent even vaguely interesting.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @05:29PM
I believe you mean direct injection or was it just a misdirection.
(Score: 2) by Sulla on Wednesday September 21 2016, @03:17PM
I am not passing laws and having broad effects on the lives of others by my lack of knowledge on those topics.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam