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Re: Hillary's IT guy asking Reddit how to cover up emails

#11

As much as I hate HRC, I really don't think the email issue is ever going to lead to anything. Not for her at least. Some poor IT guy may get it in the end, but it's painfully obvious the same rules do not apply to elected officials as they do to the rest of us.

None of these suggestions were particularly helpful, I doubt he was successful in scrubbing these addresses.

Re: Hillary's IT guy asking Reddit how to cover up emails

#12

At first I thought this was a total hoax, but the account has been deleted and the incriminating posts are over 2 years old. Here is a pastebin I found of online information linking all his profiles together: http://pastebin.com/NmXcUC1X This is pretty incriminating.

> This is pretty incriminating.

It is, but it isn't.

One could argue that someone, let's say Bob, happened to overhear some guy named Paul needing to do exactly this. He overheard it at a bar.

Bob then thought "oh, well if it's someone really VIP, this could make for some good lulz with my efriends. Who does Paul work for that is _really_ VIP? Let me Google Paul."

"Oh, here's his email address... stonetear@gmail.com. I wonder if he's on reddit. ... Guess not. Let's make a post that's pretty obviously incriminating."

I think that'd be the first argument made, at least. IANAL, but I do have some courtroom experience.

An IP is also not a person, https://torrentfreak.com/ip-address-not-person-140324/

Re: Hillary's IT guy asking Reddit how to cover up emails

#13

As much as I hate HRC, I really don't think the email issue is ever going to lead to anything. Not for her at least. Some poor IT guy may get it in the end, but it's painfully obvious the same rules do not apply to elected officials as they do to the rest of us.

Oh, are all your old emails regularly examined by the FBI and a hostile press, and published across global media? When did you testify to Congress about it?

Re: Hillary's IT guy asking Reddit how to cover up emails

#15

At first I thought this was a total hoax, but the account has been deleted and the incriminating posts are over 2 years old. Here is a pastebin I found of online information linking all his profiles together: http://pastebin.com/NmXcUC1X This is pretty incriminating.

About the Pontiac Aztec mentioned in that post, some 4chan user found 2012 Google street-view images of what is/was apparently his house (there was a Paul R Combetta that lived there) with a Pontiac Aztec in the driveway (he asked for help with his Aztec in /r/cartalk 3 years ago)

Re: Hillary's IT guy asking Reddit how to cover up emails

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post #12

At first I thought this was a total hoax, but the account has been deleted and the incriminating posts are over 2 years old. Here is a pastebin I found of online information linking all his profiles together: http://pastebin.com/NmXcUC1X This is pretty incriminating.

> This is pretty incriminating. It is, but it isn't. One could argue that someone, let's say Bob, happened to overhear some guy named Paul needing to do exactly this. He overheard it at a bar. Bob then thought "oh, well if it's someone really VIP, this could make for some good lulz with my efriends. Who does Paul work for that is _really_ VIP? Let me Google Paul." "Oh, here's his email address... stonetear@gmail.com.…

Stonetear's post history spans for years, is quite extensive, and includes photos of himself and his family, and references to a car and other items, all of which apparently match up to the subject in question. I became pretty convinced within a few minutes of reading it (and checking the primary material to see if it checked out, which it has so far). If true, this is incredible, that a subreddit was able to uncover publicly available evidence that the FBI missed.

Re: Hillary's IT guy asking Reddit how to cover up emails

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post #12

At first I thought this was a total hoax, but the account has been deleted and the incriminating posts are over 2 years old. Here is a pastebin I found of online information linking all his profiles together: http://pastebin.com/NmXcUC1X This is pretty incriminating.

> This is pretty incriminating. It is, but it isn't. One could argue that someone, let's say Bob, happened to overhear some guy named Paul needing to do exactly this. He overheard it at a bar. Bob then thought "oh, well if it's someone really VIP, this could make for some good lulz with my efriends. Who does Paul work for that is _really_ VIP? Let me Google Paul." "Oh, here's his email address... stonetear@gmail.com.…

It isn't court of law incriminating, but it's more than enough for the court of public opinion.

Re: Hillary's IT guy asking Reddit how to cover up emails

#19
post #7

There's now a post in /r/exchangeserver that's making fun of this old post[1], but is there a link to the original (or has the post been deleted?). I'm still rather skeptical of things I read on /r/conspiracy. 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/exchangeserver/comments/53ick9/remo...

This actually surfaced on many different sub-reddits, but kept getting removed due to the 'anti-doxxing' policy, which I think is generally a good policy to have, but in this case the whole point of the story is linking a real world person to an online alias.

Anyway, I don't have a horse in this race, just thought it was an interesting story both politically and from a security perspective.

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