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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 20 2016, @05:16PM
1 - the "very VIP" bit was just standard self aggrandizement - you see it all the time from bloggers, pundits, and whoever.
2 - ignorant people go to reddit all the time. I often google stuff, and find hits posted on reddit. I've even browsed some of those results. I don't recall ever finding anything useful on reddit.
3 - would defeat the self aggrandizement bit. Imagine this post: "Oh, look at me, I'm so important I get to suck a very important person's ass! -anonymous"
Yes, stupid, stupid, stupid. But, then again, Microsoft and Google save all of your searches anyway. If I use either search engine to find "how to wipe my boss's email server", it's recorded. If I'm on Windows, then Windows records it right in the logs. If you're signed into either of the major search engines, they they save the search again. Linux and duckduckgo are great, because they don't record that crap. All of my research into assassination techniques has been kept secret because I don't use Windows and Google or Bing. :^)