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

Post by threepipeproblm » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 8:57 PM UTC

dragonwriter wrote: post #37

threepipeproblm wrote: post #35

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If that were true, why did he specifically ask for help to "strip out or replace the email address in the to/from fields in all of the emails". source: reddit via http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=38414

> > Yes it's pretty clear that the content of the email is not to be adjusted, just the To/From fields. > If that were true, why did he specifically ask for help to "strip out or replace the email address in the to/from fields in all of the emails". What your quote said he asked for help to do is exactly what GP suggested was the only thing he was trying to do. So, what you say he asked is exactly what you'd expect i…

Post by dragonwriter » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 9:08 PM UTC

threepipeproblm wrote: post #41

dragonwriter wrote: post #37

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> > Yes it's pretty clear that the content of the email is not to be adjusted, just the To/From fields. > If that were true, why did he specifically ask for help to "strip out or replace the email address in the to/from fields in all of the emails". What your quote said he asked for help to do is exactly what GP suggested was the only thing he was trying to do. So, what you say he asked is exactly what you'd expect i…

Oh right I had that exactly backwards... I apologize, it's been long day. It does make me wonder why this matters, though. Ripping the to/from from an export would be trivially easy. He wanted to strip it from the server for some reason. So that doesn't make me feel better... isn't it what you would do to prevent emails from being discovered. I mean if they wanted to sanitize files after export, it's just bulk search…

Post by johnnyn2o » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 9:20 PM UTC

headhunter wrote: post #4

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.

Post by cpr » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 9:42 PM UTC

qyv wrote: post #30

headhunter wrote: post #4

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 seems to have taken place in July 2014, which is many months before the emails went missing (Mar. 2015). Even taking into account that he was apparently instructed to delete the email in Dec. 2014 (and forgot to), it still leaves a large amount of time between these two incidents.

Post by threepipeproblm » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 10:26 PM UTC

joemi wrote: post #48

threepipeproblm wrote: post #33

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Improperly marking a similar post this morning as a "dupe" didn't work -- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=threepipeproblm -- so people who don't want to hear this seem to have "flagged" it as off topic? Meanwhile, some recent HN topics that were not flagged as off topic include: * The '80s Public Access Films Produced by a California UFO Cult * Affliction and Salvation: Love Was a Learned Art for Iris Murdoch…

I'm not one of the people to flag or downvote this, but all the post shows is that he wanted to keep some email addresses private. I'm not sure why people think this is a smoking gun? I get that people hate HRC, but how is a desire to tokenize email addresses noteworthy? Edit: Also, the title doesn't fit the post.