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Hillary Clinton Used BleachBit To Wipe Emails (neowin.net)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Neowin: The open-source disk cleaning application, BleachBit, got quite a decent ad pitch from the world of politics after it was revealed lawyers of the presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton, used the software to wipe her email servers. Clinton is currently in hot water, being accused of using private servers for storing sensitive emails. "[South Carolina Representative, Trey Gowdy, spoke to Fox News about Hillary Clinton's lawyers using BleachBit to wipe the private servers. He said:] 'She and her lawyers had those emails deleted. And they didn't just push the delete button; they had them deleted where even God can't read them. They were using something called BleachBit. You don't use BleachBit for yoga emails or bridesmaids emails. When you're using BleachBit, it is something you really do not want the world to see.'" Two of the main features that are listed on the BleachBit website include "Shred files to hide their contents and prevent data recovery," and "Overwrite free disk space to hide previously deleted files." These two features would make it pretty difficult for anyone trying to recover the deleted emails. Slashdot reader ahziem adds: The IT team for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton used the open source cleaning software BleachBit to wipe systems "so even God couldn't read them," according to South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy on Fox News. His comments on the "drastic cyber-measure" were in response to the question of whether emails on her private Microsoft Exchange Server were simply about "yoga and wedding plans." Perhaps Clinton's team used an open-source application because, unlike proprietary applications, it can be audited, like for backdoors. In response to the Edward Snowden leaks in 2013, privacy expert Bruce Schneier advised in an article in which he stated he also uses BleachBit, "Closed-source software is easier for the NSA to backdoor than open-source software." Ironically, Schneier was writing to a non-governmental audience. Have any Slashdotters had any experience with BleachBit? Specifically, have you used it for erasing "yoga emails" or "bridesmaids emails?"

569 comments

  1. Too secure for insecure? by dirk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I really can't find something to bitch about here. Sure, Clinton sucks, but the big knock against her and her email server was that she wasn't secure enough with it. Then, when she does do something secure, the knock is "See, she is so secure she must be hiding something!" Sorry, you can't bitch when she isn't secure and then bitch when she is. Was she hiding stuff? Most probably, since all politicians are. Do I trust her? Not a chance. But you can't set up a now in scenario as your reason for not liking her. You can't bitch about insecurity and then bitch about too much security at the same time.

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    1. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      All indications are she wasn't very careful while actively using the server. However, once she started getting requests to produce data from it, then she suddenly got very careful. Even if she did do nothing wrong, that is a very stark change in behavior that just happened to coincide with legal requests to hand over data.

    2. Re:Too secure for insecure? by NotInHere · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The wiping just means that she is very secure from her own state interfering with her. But it doesn't say anything about how easy it was for third party states to gain information from her email server before it was wiped. So her servers might be secure from the justice system, but not secure from third parties. Both these aspects are how it shouldn't be.

    3. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      What about the Freedom of Information Act? Don't secretary of state emails have to be archived?

      The big knock against her email server is that any other state employee that ran such a thing would be locked up in jail.

    4. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Triklyn · · Score: 2, Insightful

      ... the knock against her is that they were shredding documents that a federal prosecutor might see. she's not being secure now, secure doesn't mean destroy the files so that the people that can check or look for corruption cannot now.

    5. Re:Too secure for insecure? by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 2

      Because of who the 'security' was against and when it was applied.

      The server was insecure to the Russians, Iranians, and any 16 year old that figured out how to get in.

      The server's data was secure against being used against her.

      Had she had a secure server but never wiped it but just kept the hard drives in her basement I doubt that the Russians or Iranians would have been able to get to it.

      It's like wearing a condom while tight rope walking. You're protected against *one* thing that may happen during the tight rope walk but it's not what you need to be worrying about.

    6. Re:Too secure for insecure? by CaptnCrud · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Two wrongs don't make a right. If I install an application to protect the data I "ILLEGALLY" stored, that doesn't automatically make things all right.

      I think you're missing the angle here....when was this software installed/used? Because I have a hunch it was when the FBI first began probing.....

      This has been an entertaining election, i'll give it that.

    7. Re:Too secure for insecure? by mrclevesque · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      "Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice used private accounts for classified emails"

      https://www.theguardian.com/us...

    8. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It would take a willful suspension of disbelief for you to come to that conclusion. Were you doing mental Yoga with Hillary. It's farcical at best. It has been shown that the server was completely insecure and holding top secret information. How is being through in your destruction of evidence before turning it over the authorities in anyway 'secure'? How is obstruction of justice OK with you? Ask yourself, how would you respond if it were a Republican? Are you even capable of that exercise in rational evaluation?

    9. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What about the Freedom of Information Act? Don't secretary of state emails have to be archived?

      I dunno... point to which line you mean... should be somewhere in here, no? https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/552

      Just because it has a cool name doesn't mean that all information has to be saved. The important stuff is in the text of the law.

    10. Re:Too secure for insecure? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The big knock against her email server is that any other state employee that ran such a thing would be locked up in jail.

      You might want to think about this a minute. The Bush Administration wiped 22 million emails.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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    11. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Two wrongs do not make a right.

    12. Re: Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What kinda of tight rope walking are you watching, and may I please have a link?

    13. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Triklyn · · Score: 3, Interesting

      retroactively classified has a different flavor, and apparently, rice didn't use email period. her assistant did.

      if you read the link you linked at least.

    14. Re:Too secure for insecure? by the_Bionic_lemming · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Remind me when the law went into effect?

      You might find out that it was legal for them to use private servers....

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    15. Re:Too secure for insecure? by laing · · Score: 5, Insightful

      In the eyes of the law (courts), spoliation of evidence is equivalent to guilt, but perhaps to a lessor degree.

    16. Re:Too secure for insecure? by CanadianRealist · · Score: 1

      The "justice system" is a third party.

      If it was easy for third party states to gain information from her e-mail server then the "justice system" could have gained it just as easily. Maybe foreign states did hack her server. It's just as likely that the NSA or some other US government entity hacked her server.

      Or is the claim that she wiped the server in such a way that it is no longer readable by the US government or even "God", but somehow can still be read by foreign governments?

    17. Re:Too secure for insecure? by cahuenga · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Sure, Clinton sucks, but the big knock against her and her email server was that she wasn't secure enough with it.

      My quibble was the blatant arrogance of the act. That private server was clearly a move to preserve final editing rights of her tenure at the State Department and evade any future FOIA requests that may crop up during her next run for the presidency; and was there ever any doubt that she would run again? The fact that she thought she could get away with it after experiencing the fallout from the exact same move by members of the Bush administration while she was a sitting Senator in Washington reinforces the feeling that her arrogance knows no bounds. She took a page out of the neocon playbook and figured she would show them how it's done.

    18. Re:Too secure for insecure? by KingBozo · · Score: 2, Informative

      There is a difference, They talk about email that were sent to Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice and didn't have any classified markings, Not that they sent classified emails. Big difference in that Hillary send Classified documents that had classified markings in them.

      This is blatant trying to say someone else did it also, when the facts are different.

    19. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nice try spin master.
      When you want to actually talk rationally, untuck your face from the fold in Hillary’s rectum, scrape the shit and corn bits out of your airway, take a breath of fresh air and lets talk.

    20. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Colin Powell sees it differently:
      http://www.people.com/article/colin-powell-hillary-clinton-pinning-email-scandal-on-him

      And so does Rice:
      http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/23/politics/condoleezza-rice-colin-powell-email/

    21. Re:Too secure for insecure? by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      account != server.

      Slashdot should know better.

    22. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Damn, I thought she was only using her private email server to leak the fake stuff she wanted the other players to have. You know, cuz stupidity is a clever disguise for devious manipulation of the unscrupulous.

    23. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Think he meant the Federal Records Act:
      http://www.zdnet.com/article/investigating-hillary-clinton-which-secretaries-of-state-violated-the-federal-records-act/

    24. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I can't wait to read slashdot during her presidency. "Truman dropped two bombs, I don't see you complaining about that!"

    25. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What's your point? Arrest them both. I voted for Obama retard. Now I'm voting for Trump.

      Confused? I'm a Ron Paul supporter. What's up?

    26. Re:Too secure for insecure? by schwit1 · · Score: 1

      That does not justify her criminal actions.

    27. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      In the eyes of the law (courts), spoliation of evidence is equivalent to guilt, but perhaps to a lessor degree.

      From a technician perspective however, regardless whether you are a Democrat or Republican, you have to agree that they keep moving the goalposts here, either the emails were classified or not when they were stored or sent from the private server. It does not count if Congress declares any one of these emails classified after the fact for political effect. This is why the whole email "scandal" is much ado about nothing.

      It is clear however that those who are pursuing this for political expediency against Hillary are not going to listen to reason. I expect we will still be hearing about this being investigated again and again all the way out until 2020, probably on 20/20 no less. This is such a pathetic waste of time for America, all the while we are considering Trump as an alternative? I can't stop laughing.. unless of course he gets elected somehow.. and I am a Republican!

    28. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      But did Bush delete them AFTER being subpoenaed like Hillary did?
      Did Bush say he turned over all work related emails but others were found that were not turned over, like Hillary did?
      Was the request about Bush emails about shipping ISIS weapons through Libya or about legally dismissing judges as allowed by the president?
      Did we find emails from recipients of Bush's email showing a pay to play scheme to personally enrich himself, like Hillary did?
      Did Bush lie under oath to Congress when testifying about it, like Hillary did?

      So your bringing it up I assume you had a problem with Bush doing it. Well, congratulations, Hillary did so to delete evidence after an investigation began. She even delete emails showing her being guilty of ethical/possibly legal issues.

      So I guess I can count you as someone who thinks Hillary did something wrong as well and should be prosecuted.

    29. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Yeah you can bitch, moron. She shouldn't have been doing what she was doing. Then when she got caught she all of a sudden found security.

    30. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      goalposts keep getting moved because they scream "that doesn't count" when legitimate goals are scored. She had classified information on her private servers, this was proven. PERIOD.

    31. Re: Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You're obviously one huge clusterfuck of stupidity embodied in a human being if you don't understand why a politician destroying evidence during an investigation is a BAD THING.

    32. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice used private accounts for classified emails"

      https://www.theguardian.com/us...

      And yes, so if you lock Hillary up for the email shenanigans, you lock up Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice.. you can't have it both ways!
      The email scandal is much ado about nothing, So can we please get back to the issues? What are we going to do about Isis? what are we going to do with the economy? I am a Republican and I am sick of hearing about the email crap.. such a waste of our time!

    33. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh, so two wrongs make a right? Or is it that you're saying it is a contest? Well, let's elect a Hillary administration and see what we get.

    34. Re:Too secure for insecure? by whoever57 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      account != server.

      This is even worse. They did not use a private server, they used a server run by some unknown third party. There is even less control of the security of those emails than the emails on Clinon's server.

      Georgia Godfrey, Rice's chief of staff at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, said the former secretary of state did not use email while in the job nor have a personal email account.

      LOL. Does anyone believe that? Not even a private email account in 2009? Really?

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    35. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      A dozen or so classified emails in a sea of 10s of thousands of other emails that were not classified at the time does not make a criminal of someone.

      The reality is that this is a witch hunt. That she is far from innocent doesn't change that fact. You would be hard pressed to find a politician that doesn't have some dirt they are hiding. The reality is that while she absolutely has a history of lying, she doesn't have a history of overreacting to minor quips about her.

      It really makes me sad this is the political reality we face today. It also makes me sad all the people that put their party above their country.

    36. Re: Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes you can, because they were both avoidance of public and federal scrutiny.

      As for security it is only as strong as its weakest link. So, just because she deleted the emails using a secure method doesn't mean that they were never seen by the wrong eyes. Even then she was never authorized to do any of the above.
      You can't date one hundred hookers use a condom only with the last one, then tell your wife everything is fine because you used protection. And expect to keep your marriage too. Because this is metaphorically what she did, and what she expects.

    37. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Etcetera · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It does not count if Congress declares any one of these emails classified after the fact for political effect.

      You're begging the question here. Information is classified based on the content, markings are irrelevant. There's explicitly statutory language that indicates that someone who Should Know that data involved Should Be classified should be treating it as classified, *regardless* of any markings or lack thereof.

      Joe Blow on the street may not know that certain info is classified and might pass it along. The Secretary of State is expected to know that something is classified information and has a duty to take care of it responsible. That's something you're "read into" before you ever receive any clearance at all.

      If the emails are considered classified retroactively, then someone in her position should have realized they contained sensitive data. Nothing is being classified "for political effect"... and if something is, then that's a scandal in and of itself.

    38. Re:Too secure for insecure? by NotInHere · · Score: 1

      The "justice system" is a third party.

      No. Members of a government need to be auditable. Thats why there are so strict laws and regulations about government communication preservation. Both for historians, and more importantly, the press. Just look at brazil how well it works there (compared to the US), only possible because the press has hard proof about the corruption.

      This auditability is ensured on infrastructure that is given to government officials. Although it can be manipulated inside the government, that's much harder as if it were on a private server.

      It's just as likely that the NSA or some other US government entity hacked her server.

      I doubt that the NSA or other agency wants to do actions against one of the higher ups. They are designed to follow their commands, not to spy on them. If they hack the politicians, their practices will just be questioned far more likely. Of course, if there is a judicial order, they will act against them, as they should, but not without one.

      Or is the claim that she wiped the server in such a way that it is no longer readable by the US government or even "God", but somehow can still be read by foreign governments?

      No. But even the most secure form of wiping doesn't help you if someone hacked and downloaded all data before you wiped. It does help you however if the public demands access and you fear whether the FBI might turn up and seize your computers in the future.

    39. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      Actually, they were classified at the time of being sent, also thanks for proving my point. "THAT DOESNT COUNT!!!"

    40. Re: Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wow...do you not understand the difference between a wipe and just sitting back and recording the information? Third party states would have recorded the info BEFORE she securely deleted it. Most likely the NSA does have that info but the FBI (which investigated the matter) doesn't. I hope you are not in IT if this concept so easily flew over your head.

    41. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Hillary did do something wrong but the punishment for it would never be jail time. People keep focusing on this shouting lock her up. The worst she would have endured if she was a normal member of the state department would be a removal from her job and revocation of any security clearance.

      The Bush administration knew they had done a lot of wrong and deleted email on a whole different plane of existence. You're talking 22 million emails before we could even submit a FOIA. That was way worse but also still doesn't excuse Hillary.

      There is entirely too much corruption throughout our government. We need to fix campaign finance in a big way. We need to overturn the citizens united case. Probably with a new law to clarify things. The whole idea of a Super PAC is stupid. A lot of politicians flagrantly violate the laws that are supposed to seperate them and their PACs.

    42. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      At the time that Powell was SoS, there was not a State Department run e-mail server that could communicate outside of the restricted network. While using AOL was naive, using an external account was the only means of e-mail communication and his use was approved. He also used the internal system for all internal e-mail activity. Whereas when Hillary was SoS, they had implemented an external, State Department run e-mail system. She decided not only to not use the provided system for external communications, but to also not use the internal system for classified communications. She can he-haw all she wants, but circumstances were different when she was SoS. She cannot compare and justify her practices based off predecessors with different services provided, different policies and even different laws in effect.

    43. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The point is, she didn't scrub it because she was trying to practice good security. She scrubbed it because people wanted to see what was on it, then lied every step of the way since.

    44. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      2 things to keep in mind before you try to equivocate the two:
      1 - This was 9 years ago. cyber security is on a whole different level now.
      2 - It was in response to an investigation on his firing 9 district attorneys, which was his right to do, just like it was the right of his predecessor to fire 11. This was a mud slinging event from the get-go.

    45. Re:Too secure for insecure? by tsotha · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Destruction of evidence is itself a crime. The difficulty is always in proving that's what happened - by definition you're missing a key piece of evidence.

    46. Re:Too secure for insecure? by tsotha · · Score: 1

      There's a time component involved here. It may be the Russians compromised it easily a few years ago, but she wiped the data when it became clear it would be subpoena'd.

    47. Re:Too secure for insecure? by tsotha · · Score: 1

      Hillary's defenders seem to engage in a lot of this tu quoque stuff when the facts don't even rise to the level they can reasonably employ a fallacy.

    48. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Hillary did do something wrong but the punishment for it would never be jail time. People keep focusing on this shouting lock her up. The worst she would have endured if she was a normal member of the state department would be a removal from her job and revocation of any security clearance.

      And revocation of retirement benefits. And a felony conviction, with the resulting future denial of a number of civil rights (such as the right to posses a gun) and - yes - federal prison time.

      Are you saying that the government would never enforce some of the more severe portions of the law? They seem to enforce it just fine when dealing with low-level functionaries (or even high-level officials who happen to be conservative.)

      There is entirely too much corruption throughout our government.

      Yep.

      We need to fix campaign finance in a big way.

      Yes - by completely repealing any campaign finance legislation at any level.

      Buying advertisement is political speech. That, even more than any other forms of speech, is precisely one of the rights that is recognized and protected by the First Amendment. (It just happens purchasing advertisements enables the "speaker" to talk to more people than he can by standing on a soapbox in the park.)

      Campaign financing laws are bait-and-switch. They claim to level the playing field, blocking the deep-pocket guys and the incumbents from having an advantage over the ordinary citizens and upstart challengers. But they actually penalize the grass-roots organizers and challengers by imposing complex red tape and arcane limits and requirements with draconian penalties for non-compliance (which incumbents' and professional lobbying organizations already know how to handle - or have the financial backing to challenge in court).

      They're incumbent protection laws. Which is exactly what you should expect them to be. They were written by incumbents.

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    49. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Naturally this brings to mind the Schlock Mercenary line -- "You and I are both way past two." (http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-07-11)

    50. Re:Too secure for insecure? by The+Grim+Reefer · · Score: 1

      The "justice system" is a third party.

      If it was easy for third party states to gain information from her e-mail server then the "justice system" could have gained it just as easily. Maybe foreign states did hack her server.

      For it to be admissible in court the Justice system needs to get a warrant first. A foreign agency or individual does not. There's a big damn difference.

      It's just as likely that the NSA

      It's very apparent that the NSA need(ed/s) to be reined in. While they were created in a different time and, possibly, needed to operate by a different set of rules at that time, it's become fairly obvious that they've over stepped their limits. I doubt any evidence that they may have gathered regarding the situation with Mr.s Clinton's email server would be admissible in court.

    51. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How is this comment Troll?

      She did store data illegally and she did use this application to wipe data from investigation.

    52. Re:Too secure for insecure? by 14erCleaner · · Score: 1

      The Bush Administration wiped 22 million emails.

      gwb43.com FTW!

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    53. Re: Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Good objective statement. No political spin. "account != server" I like that.

    54. Re:Too secure for insecure? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

      Twenty-two million emails.

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    55. Re:Too secure for insecure? by quantaman · · Score: 1

      All indications are she wasn't very careful while actively using the server. However, once she started getting requests to produce data from it, then she suddenly got very careful. Even if she did do nothing wrong, that is a very stark change in behavior that just happened to coincide with legal requests to hand over data.

      It also happens to correspond with the realization that she (and/or her IT person) had been acting carelessly before.

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    56. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      The big knock against her email server is that any other state employee that ran such a thing would be locked up in jail.

      This is a very common misconception.

      Comey spent hours in front of Congress explaining, very patiently, over and over, that the reason he could not recommend prosecution against Clinton is because all of the suspected crimes required proof of intent, which the FBI did not have.

      In fact, Comey talked in detail about the FBI's treatment of Clinton versus the treatment of a "John Doe" suspect. Comey specifically said that a "John Doe" would in fact not be charged in this case -- again, because the relevant statutes require evidence of intent, which the FBI didn't have. He then said -- repeatedly -- how important it was to make sure that Clinton was treated exactly the same way as a "John Doe".

      So your comment strongly contradicts everything that Comey said in his sworn statement to Congress. I have a choice -- I can believe Comey, or I can believe you. I choose to believe Comey. (Or, more to the point, I choose to believe what the FBI's lawyers told Comey to say in his sworn statement to Congress.)

      One thing I will not do is to engage in the speculation that Comey conspired to (or was forced to) perjure himself in his sworn statement to Congress on this matter. No credible person has provided evidence of any such conspiracy, nor has any prosecutor brought conspiracy charges. (Conspiracy charges that -- if a conviction was achieved -- would result in a phenomenal boost to the prosecutor's reputation, career, and fame.) Until those charges are filed against Comey and his alleged co-conspirators, I will consider all such conspiratorial thinking as nothing but political propaganda to be safely ignored.

    57. Re: Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I think that's the point...she is too much like the Bush administration.

    58. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      She's protecting Hussan's _real_ Kenyian birth certificate which was on her servers.
      (and NO, the one "one line" at the White House doesn't show a raised seal - look it
      up kiddies, that's the only way to verify a genuine certificate in those days).

      And people want _that_ as the next president of the United States!?

      CAP === 'enjoys'

    59. Re: Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What should her punishment be then? Everyone knows that if she worked in the corporate sector and this happened, she would of been fired immediately. Considering her government role, it's much more of an issue and her punishment she be no different than that of any other government official or *cough* military leader.

    60. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

      NotInHere - You're an idiot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controversy

      You don't call for prosecution when it matters, you call for it when it's politically expedient for you.

    61. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      You know the rules. You only get paid once per pro-Hillary post. Now stop pasting the same thing multiple times into the same topic.

      Yours truly,
      George Soros

    62. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      All indications are she wasn't very careful while actively using the server. However, once she started getting requests to produce data from it, then she suddenly got very careful. Even if she did do nothing wrong, that is a very stark change in behavior that just happened to coincide with legal requests to hand over data.

      Meh, she tried to protect her communications from republican witch hunts. It failed, badly, in almost the worst possible way, but then if it wasn't the email it would be some other manufactured controversy. I suspect she wanted the additional rights she gained by the data being stored in ways that would require at least getting a warrant to obtain it, but that is only a guess. Overall, if your high enough level where someone is likely to care, then having a regular data deletion policy you can point to is an excellent idea. Also, segregate communications between work and home and maybe a few others accounts. Keeping them together for convenience means that the data retention stuff can be used to fetch personal email.

      Also, regarding the use of any kind of secure erase. Just make that part of your IT policy. which incidentally keeps nothing not required by law. If everyone has a right to own really big guns then they also have the right to manage their own data. Use of encryption and erasure tools is NOT an indication of guilt. It is an indication you value privacy. You just can't do it after you find out about some kind of investigation of course, but pretending it is a crime just to use such tools is complete bs. Hell every copy of linux comes with a "secure erase tool" All you need to do is type something like "dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=65536" and watch the system become likely impossible to recover.

      Windows isn't that much harder. The easiest is to pull the drive and do a full format on it, then fill it with garbage files before doing it again. There are countless variations without even using special software. In fact, one way I've used for backing up systems is to just create a file that is say 1 GB in size with all zeros and make copies of it on a windows system till all space is exhausted.

      Of course there is no reason to do all this work. You can just download darins (sp?) boot and nuke and burn it to a cd, and no one should feel guitly of committing a crime just to protect their privacy.

    63. Re:Too secure for insecure? by kenai_alpenglow · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The FBI found the "key piece(s)". Comey then said "No prosecutor would pursue this case" and dropped it. He was probably right--but only because of her last name. If I did that, I might get out after 5 years or so. Heck, one of my counterparts got in trouble for a single line in a controlled document which had the same info in the public domain. I'm sick of these "Nothing to see here" claims--just look at any security briefing and it's spelled out. We just had another one, and according to it I would be required to report her if she was in my office.

    64. Re:Too secure for insecure? by reboot246 · · Score: 1

      Hillary used a private SERVER. There is a difference.

    65. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Nostalgia4Infinity · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Please state the part of the law on improperly transmitted classified information that talks about ratio of classified material to non classified material.

    66. Re:Too secure for insecure? by khallow · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I like how the argument has devolved here to "If Bush did it, then it's ok". PopeRatzo, is Dubya really your moral compass? Your guiding light?

    67. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Oligonicella · · Score: 1

      You do understand that someone can close down existing accounts prior to taking a sensitive job, right? Then you simply do not use email on the job. Simple.

    68. Re:Too secure for insecure? by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 0

      If you're a Ron Paul supporter voting for Trump, I fear that "confused" is rather an understatement of your mental state.

    69. Re: Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's the same bit that deals with General Petraeus.

    70. Re: Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nice try. Classifed information not so marked is one thing. Saying that you should treat something as classified that is not in fact actually classified is something else entirely. Those are not the same thing.

      Also, newsflash: classified material is mishandled all the time. Part of that is because too much damned stuff is classified, and part because people are people. Yet we don't have massive jails full of people who did that. Why? Because we only prosecute people who do things deliberately and with intent.

      I do not want Hillary to be President--but if right wing whackos keep making crap up instead of going after her numerous letitimate bad positions and policies, when something really, legitimately bad does come up nobody is going to pay attention. That's almost handing her a ticket to the White House.

    71. Re:Too secure for insecure? by kqs · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      You're building a strawman; you made a fake argument designed to be easily knocked down. The actual argument being made is: If you complain that Clinton used a non-governmental email server, but you did not complain that Bush+ did the same thing (and "lost" a lot more email), then you are not concerned about the potential email-server crime; you're just a whining partisan idiot.

      A similar situation: The tea party folks were incredibly upset that Obama ran a big deficit. You wouldn't know it to listen to them now, but for many years the deficit was the most important thing in the political world and proof that Obama was trying to destroy the USA.

      But the deficit under Obama shrunk every year, while the deficit under Bush Junior grew every year. Yet the tea party folks never made a peep of complaint when Bush grew the deficit.

      So the most likely explanation is that the tea party folks never really cared about the deficit; they are just whining partisan idiots.

      There are of course partisan idiots on all sides of the political spectrum, but the republicans seem the only ones who let the partisan idiots set their policy and talking points. Odd way to run a railroad.

    72. Re:Too secure for insecure? by argStyopa · · Score: 1

      This isn't about Bush.

      And "well they did it" didn't work as an excuse in 1st grade, you think it's appropriate for the secretary of state?

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    73. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Crashmarik · · Score: 1

      I doubt that the NSA or other agency wants to do actions against one of the higher ups. They are designed to follow their commands, not to spy on them. If they hack the politicians, their practices will just be questioned far more likely. Of course, if there is a judicial order, they will act against them, as they should, but not without one.

      That's funny, when the NSA gained the ability to hack the entire U.S. they became the real power.

    74. Re:Too secure for insecure? by jeff4747 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      either the emails were classified or not when they were stored or sent from the private server.

      According to the DNI, the FBI, the DoJ and the State Department IG, they were classified. Not even the Clinton campaign is pushing classified-after-the-fact anymore.

      It does not count if Congress declares any one of these emails classified after the fact for political effect.

      Congress has no say in what is classified.

      In 1947, they couldn't figure out how to create a unified classification system. So they passed a law which basically said "Hey Executive branch! You come up with it". Thus, the Executive branch gets to decide what is and is not classified. And it's codified in a series of Executive Orders and classification guides.

      This is why the whole email "scandal" is much ado about nothing.

      Says the person who thinks Congress classifies documents at all, much less after-the-fact.

      Those of us who had security clearances know we'd be in prison if we did this. In fact, several people are in prison for negligently handling classified information. But they had the misfortune of not running for president at the time.

    75. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This totally rocks! I can kill my wife, and another dude at the same time, because OJ did it!

      I really love this kqs character.

    76. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Is the Republican party in shambles? The people who fucked Ron Paul just had their house lit on fire. Donald Trump is an artist.

    77. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      We need to fix campaign finance in a big way. We need to overturn the citizens united case.

      This is an invalid statement from anyone who says Clinton should not be in jail. Clinton took $600 million in bribes selling State Department favours while in office (Including approving a sale of uranium to Russia for $145 million). Not to a campaign, which you say you would want to stop, but to her foundation and herself personally. The only reason you bring this issue up is you believe in censorship of people you don't like, there is no other reason to possibly have this viewpoint AND say Clinton did nothing wrong. This was a method for Clinton to raise unlimited funds from individuals to fund her presidential campaign, or whatever else, while you want to prevent people who FOLLOW THE LAW from using their money for political speech.

      Just admit you hate people you don't agree with having freedom of speech. If you can't be honest, your opinion doesn't count.

    78. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      True, but three lefts make a right.

    79. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Swave+An+deBwoner · · Score: 1

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    80. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Zak3056 · · Score: 1

      I'm still waiting to hear how Hillary being "extremely careless" does not rise to the level of "gross negligence" that should trigger prosecution. I'm assuming that I'll be waiting until the heat death of the universe for a reasonable explanation of that.

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    81. Re:Too secure for insecure? by RoccamOccam · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Comey spent hours in front of Congress explaining, very patiently, over and over, that the reason he could not recommend prosecution against Clinton is because all of the suspected crimes required proof of intent, which the FBI did not have.

      Transcript of Gowdy questioning Comey. Lots of context, but note the bolded section:

      Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said "I did not e-mail any classified information to anyone on my e-mail there was no classified material." That is true?

      Comey: There was classified information emailed.

      Gowdy: Secretary Clinton used one device, was that true?

      Comey: She used multiple devices during the four years of her term as Secretary of State.

      Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said all work related emails were returned to the State Department. Was that true?

      Comey: No. We found work related email, thousands, that were not returned.

      Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said neither she or anyone else deleted work related emails from her personal account.

      Comey: That's a harder one to answer. We found traces of work related emails in — on devices or in space. Whether they were deleted or when a server was changed out something happened to them, there's no doubt that the work related emails that were removed electronically from the email system.

      Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said her lawyers read every one of the emails and were overly inclusive. Did her lawyers read the email content individually?

      Comey: No.

      Gowdy: Well, in the interest of time and because I have a plane to catch tomorrow afternoon, I'm not going to go through any more of the false statements but I am going to ask you to put on your old hat. False exculpatory statements are used for what?

      Comey: Well, either for a substantive prosecution or evidence of intent in a criminal prosecution.

      Gowdy: Exactly. Intent and consciousness of guilt, right?

      Comey: That is right?

      Gowdy: Consciousness of guilt and intent? In your old job you would prove intent as you referenced by showing the jury evidence of a complex scheme that was designed for the very purpose of concealing the public record and you would be arguing in addition to concealment the destruction that you and i just talked about or certainly the failure to preserve. You would argue all of that under the heading of content. You would also — intent. You would also be arguing the pervasiveness of the scheme when it started, when it ended and the number of emails whether They were originally classified or of classified under the heading of intent. You would also, probably, under common scheme or plan, argue the burn bags of daily calendar entries or the missing daily calendar entries as a common scheme or plan to conceal.
      Two days ago, Director, you said a reasonable person in her position should have known a private email was no place to send and receive classified information. You're right. An average person does know not to do that.
      This is no average person. This is a former First Lady, a former United States senator, and a former Secretary of State that the president now contends is the most competent, qualified person to be president since Jefferson. He didn't say that in '08 but says it now.
      She affirmatively rejected efforts to give her a state.gov account, kept the private emails for almost two years and only turned them over to Congress because we found out she had a private email account.
      So you have a rogue email system set up before she took the oath of office, thousands of what we now know to be classified emails, some of which were classified at the time. One of her more frequent email comrades was hacked and you don't know whether or not she was.
      And this scheme took place over a long period of time and resulted in the destruction of public reco

    82. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Because the lazy argument ever wins? Look up your own data if you want to make a serious argument.

    83. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And because of that the laws were changed before she took office and she still did it, because you can't touch a Clinton.

    84. Re:Too secure for insecure? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

      I like how the argument has devolved here to "If Bush did it, then it's ok". PopeRatzo, is Dubya really your moral compass?

      Twenty-two MILLION emails.

      Funny, but I don't remember that being an every night issue on the evening news.

      And I never, ever look to politicians for a moral compass. I gave that up when Ronald Reagan became president.

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    85. Re:Too secure for insecure? by bondsbw · · Score: 1

      Bill, Barack, and Hillary?

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    86. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What is the epitome of partisan idiot but "I am going to assume you have never in your life complained about something $party did because you are complaining about something $counterparty did?"

    87. Re:Too secure for insecure? by AthanasiusKircher · · Score: 2

      A similar situation: The tea party folks were incredibly upset that Obama ran a big deficit. You wouldn't know it to listen to them now, but for many years the deficit was the most important thing in the political world and proof that Obama was trying to destroy the USA.

      But the deficit under Obama shrunk every year, while the deficit under Bush Junior grew every year. Yet the tea party folks never made a peep of complaint when Bush grew the deficit.

      So the most likely explanation is that the tea party folks never really cared about the deficit; they are just whining partisan idiots.

      I'm neither a fan of Bush nor Obama, but what you've stated here is incredibly misleading (as well as factually inaccurate).

      According to the non-partisan CBO data, the on-budget deficit under Bush began at $32 billion in 2001, ballooned to $568 billion in 2004, then decreased again until 2008 (the 2007 deficit was "merely" $342 billion), after which it spiked (due to the financial crisis, bail-outs, etc. with 2008 concluding with $642 billion deficit).

      Under Obama, the deficit began at $1.55 TRILLION in 2009 and stayed above Bush's 2008 maximum of $642 billion in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013. Only in 2014 and 2015 has Obama's deficit dropped below the MAXIMUM Bush ever attained in deficit spending. Now, you might argue that inflation should be taken into account, but you'll come up with somewhat similar figures if you take percentage of GDP instead of actual deficit amount -- the first four years under Obama all were above ALL of Bush's deficits in percentage of GDP.

      Or, another way to see this is that the total debt under Bush grew from $3.4 trillion at the end of 2000 to $5.8 trillion at the end of 2008, an increase of about 70%. Under Obama, the debt has grown from $5.8 trillion at the end of 2008 to $13.1 trillion by the end of 2015 (and he still has a year to go), an increase of 125% (more than doubled).

      Personally, I think a lot of the Tea Party's logic makes no sense, and I think deficit spending is really essential for all sorts of reasons.

      But you've also just outed yourself as a "partisan idiot" for attempting to make it look like Obama's deficits are less concerning than Bush's (to people who might care about stuff). Except by any metric the Obama deficits have been much larger, regardless of whether they are trending up or down... so to me it seems pretty logical that people who actually care about deficit spending might be concerned about the fact that it more than quadrupled between 2007 and 2009 and has stayed above 2007 levels ever since.

    88. Re:Too secure for insecure? by khallow · · Score: 1

      I repeat the question, PopeRatzo. Are you rationalizing Clinton's destruction of evidence as ok because the Bush administration deleted a really big number of emails?

    89. Re:Too secure for insecure? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

      And because of that the laws were changed before she took office and she still did it, because you can't touch a Clinton.

      You guys, there you go again. First you say it's a moral issue, but then you say, no, it's a legal issue. Are the two things morally equivalent? Absolutely, except it's thousands of emails as opposed to TWENTY-TWO MILLION EMAILS in the case of George W Bush.

      Are the two things legally equivalent? Absolutely, since the law has come down the same in both cases.

      So really, your beef with Hillary Clinton is just some partisan cum sock.

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    90. Re:Too secure for insecure? by khallow · · Score: 2

      You're building a strawman; you made a fake argument designed to be easily knocked down. The actual argument being made is: If you complain that Clinton used a non-governmental email server, but you did not complain that Bush+ did the same thing (and "lost" a lot more email), then you are not concerned about the potential email-server crime; you're just a whining partisan idiot.

      Bush did the same thing? Then where's the evidence? Here's the problem. You're just wrong here. Bush+ didn't use a private email server (and conveniently, successfully evade both FOIA requests and laws about public records). Bush+ didn't then proceed to destroy evidence when presented with FBI and Congressional inquiries. And there's no evidence for a several hundred million dollar pay-to-play scheme involving a Bush presidential library.

      This is the usual outcome. You claim "But Bush did it too!" without any demonstration that was true. But the real problem here is that your words are a tacit admission that Clinton committed wrong-doing. Why are we supposed to look the other way just because someone else might have gotten away with it too?

    91. Re:Too secure for insecure? by swillden · · Score: 1

      If you're a Ron Paul supporter voting for Trump, I fear that "confused" is rather an understatement of your mental state.

      I think not so much "confused" as "shallow". I can see a very surface correspondence between Paul and Trump: They both like to buck the establishment. The fact that the do so in very different ways and for very different reasons requires looking past the top millimeter of each. I suppose a vote for Obama (in his first presidential campaign) could fit as well if the same incredibly shallow analysis just focused on the "Hope and Change" slogan.

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    92. Re:Too secure for insecure? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

      I repeat the question, PopeRatzo. Are you rationalizing Clinton's destruction of evidence as ok because the Bush administration deleted a really big number of emails?

      Are you asking me for a moral or legal judgement? Morally, I find pretty much everyone who runs for this office is repugnant, with only a handful of exceptions. Currently we have a couple of morally unbalanced people running for president.

      However, as a veteran, I have learned that malignant competence is always preferable to incompetent foolishness and moral depravity when it comes to running a big organization. That's why I will vote against Donald Trump in November. It's strictly damage control.

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    93. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Here is a suggestion to people like you .... do not give your opinion on stuff you have no clue about.

    94. Re:Too secure for insecure? by mysticgoat · · Score: 1

      What indications are those? Please specify. Otherwise please quit making noise.

    95. Re:Too secure for insecure? by bongey · · Score: 3, Informative

      Except ALL 22 MILLION Bush administrative emails were recovered from tape backups. Clinton wiped the data AFTER the FOIA request. I don't know of a single person that has decided one day to delete ALL their personal emails, except Clinton. https://www.wired.com/2009/12/... another source http://www.npr.org/templates/s... , another http://www.npr.org/templates/s... . Yep you're idiot.

    96. Re: Too secure for insecure? by Bartles · · Score: 1

      Its not about national security any more. We know she was careless with it and covered it up. Now its about how much money she made by selling foreign policy through her various foundations, and how much evidence did she destroy. This is the thing that will put her in prison.

    97. Re:Too secure for insecure? by khallow · · Score: 1

      However, as a veteran, I have learned that malignant competence is always preferable to incompetent foolishness and moral depravity when it comes to running a big organization.

      I don't believe that choice is even on the table. And I think it typical that you can excuse evil because well, it's the lesser of evils by some peculiar metric that only you can see.

    98. Re:Too secure for insecure? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Informative

      Except ALL 22 MILLION Bush administrative emails were recovered from tape backups.

      No sir, they were not.

      http://www.politico.com/blogs/...

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    99. Re:Too secure for insecure? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

      And I think it typical that you can excuse evil

      I do not excuse evil, I just measure it against a greater evil. As I said, it's about minimizing the harm.

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    100. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I understand they can. I also understand they *don't*.

    101. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The Wikipedia article overlooks the fact that the supposedly lost emails were actually found, and found when the party that lost the emails (white house staff) worked with outside vendors to recover them... See, the Bush-era emails were "lost" by accident and the Bush administration worked to find them.

      Hillary with malice of forethought, had individuals review every email from her tenure at State, removing half of the emails because her staff alone decided they were "personal" and didn't need to be turned over to government. When asked about the deleted emails, Hillary simply declared them unavailable, having used high-tech means to "scrub" the server ("What, like with a towel"?).

      See the difference, one party actively worked to recover the file, the other actively worked to make the emails unavailable.

    102. Re:Too secure for insecure? by StevenMaurer · · Score: 1

      But did Bush delete them AFTER being subpoenaed like Hillary did?

      This is a 100% FALSE assertion.The emails were deleted in December. Gowdy issued the subpoena (and, mind you, only for Benghazi related subjects) in March.

      "In fact, Trey Gowdy did not issue a subpoena until March, months after she she'd done that review. Further, the subpoena was specifically asking for documents pertaining to Libya and the attacks on our facility in Benghazi, documents which, along with tens of thousands of others, she had already given to the Department of State," Merrill said.

      Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the Benghazi panel, called Gowdy's hit Wednesday a "stunt."

      "It appears clear that Secretary Clinton was answering a question about whether she deleted emails 'while facing a subpoena,'" Cummings said in a statement Wednesday.

    103. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Sax+Russell+5449D29A · · Score: 1

      I'm sure many have elaborated this point in this long-as-hell chain, but it's not about using secure data erasing tools that's the problem. It's when her team chose to use such tools. It was after she was already under investigation and subpoenaed for the emails.

      Your comment is more of a play into the hands of bipartisan politics than you probably think.

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    104. Re:Too secure for insecure? by twohorse · · Score: 2

      Secure from third party access vs secure from justice. The original poster knows the difference but chooses to use Orwellian BS to try to conflate and confuse the issue.

    105. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wait ... it's pretty common knowledge that almost everything is classified these days in the Federal Government, even content that should not be classified.

      Also, record retention is also well-defined in government, and other regulated industry, because you don't necessarily want legal holds put on all your documents and data years afterwards, and then discovered as part of a legal proceeding. This is how government and industry protects itself in our litigation-crazy world.

      So Bleach Bit may be common policy for documents and data that they are not required to retain, because they are not classified. It's not even a decision Clinton would make personally, it would be the standard operating procedure for her office.

      Let's not read too much into this stuff. Clinton made a mistake by using her own server, but I "imagine" this was done in pursuit of working more efficiently. She is not Enron.

    106. Re: Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh come now. Which one is actually more likely to drop bombs? Shit, he's self described as "bombastic".

    107. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Whether or not it was secure is irrelevant to the matter at hand, which is that she mishandled classified information and she should have known better. I have a secret clearance and If I had sent secret info in an email or failed to report receipt of secret info in an email that I received, I would be fired at the very least and maybe prosecuted too. Of course, I'm just an ordinary person, not a Clinton, and that's the problem here. Clinton is getting a pass because of who she is. That doesn't say much for our democracy or the rule of law now does it? The little people get "justice", but the ruling class gets a nod and a wink.

    108. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Those of us who had security clearances know we'd be in prison if we did this.

      Damn right. They told us what the consequences would be for violations of the rules before we were cleared and we had to sign papers saying that we understood all of the briefings and what the consequences would be for failing to keep classified information compartmentalized.

      In fact, several people are in prison for negligently handling classified information.

      Some of them probably weren't even malicious, just careless. Tech people tend to be better with it in my experience because they have been inculcated over a long period of time to security concepts and measures though working with IT and computers, even before they received a clearance. But that's no excuse for anybody who fails in their duty to keep secrets.

      But they had the misfortune of not running for president at the time.

      And not being a Clinton. The Clintons now are like the Kennedys of years past. The rules don't apply to them and they get all sorts of special considerations that no ordinary citizen would get. It's sickening actually and a stain on our democracy that we allow powerful people to ignore the laws.

    109. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Yeah, that is complete an utter crap. If you had done it, we would not have heard of it. You would have gotten a slap on the wrist and your security clearance revoked.

      People keep saying this, but they have no reason to believe it. You only get prosecuted in a case like this, if they can show that you had intent to trade national secrets.

    110. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Once again, the Fascists can't imagine that WE ARE *NOT* JUST LIKE THEM.

    111. Re: Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, the difference is he got arrested, charged and would have gone to trial if he didn't plead. For only six photos on his phone out of all the other pictures he tookâ¦

      You see it doesn't matter for them. First it was no classified emails, then they were classified after the fact, then it is only a few out of hundredsâ¦

      They wouldn't care if she was selling the data to ISIS. She is their chosen candidate, the opposition is the devil, worse than Hitler. It is not a rational position, it is more akin to a religion.

      I don't fault people for being like this but I wish to god they would gtfo when others are trying to have conversations.

    112. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There is no "ratio". One classified document is all that is required.

      From:
      To: Vlad
      Subject: Just a friendly note

      (Supply incriminating material here)

    113. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Uh, it isn't just about security. It is about breaking the law. She wasn't storing the classified information just to hide it, that is silly. She knowingly broke the law and got away with it - even though the FBI director said under oath she was guilty. You or I would have been jailed until proven innocent on day one for this behavior.

      That is plenty of reason to 'not like her', in-fact it should infuriate you..

    114. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Funny that Clinton would be the standard bearer for enacting more campaign financing restrictions. In this election cycle she's outspending her opponents by Yuuuuge margins. In fact, Bernie Sanders outraised Trump by a very large margin. Trump was nowhere near the most well-funded of the Republican candidates.

      Despite Clinton's huge lead in fundraising over Bernie, it was still a fairly close primary (and this with him being a pretty lackluster candidate). If money had much to say about it, Bush or Rubio definitely should have won the GOP primary - and later Cruz took the lead.

      So money definitely doesn't buy elections. At least not at that level.

      All this campaign finance reform noise from the Democrats - and particularly the Citizens United talk - is simply about choking out their competition. They know they have sources of money that are outside the restrictions. And they know they have access to media without having to produce their own content, a-la Citizens United. So they are desperate to close off the opposition's ability to reach an audience. This is why they are so keen to reintroduce the "fairness doctrine" to AM radio.

      It isn't just the Republicans they target. It is just as important to them (and to the crony capitalists in the GOP) that alternatives like Jill Stein be silenced. Pass all this "meaningful campaign finance reform" and the Green Party is done. So are the Libertarians. Or the Reform Party. Or any other startup party. They'll be permanently locked out.

      These reforms have nice-sounding motivations, but they are blatantly anti-democratic. Ask yourself this.... why would the largest billionaire political financier of all time be so invested in "getting the money out of politics" if he didn't see an advantage in it? Why would the largest recipients of this money be so interested in "shutting it off?"

      Can't figure it out? Then ask yourself this: Why do large corporations get so involved in creating government regulations? What does the insurance industry have to gain by creating state insurance boards and insurance commissioners? Why does the Taxi industry want a limit on the number of taxis that can operate in a city? Why does the mortuary industry want restrictions on who can build and sell a casket? Why do liquor and beer distributors want heavy regulation on liquor and beer distribution?

      Do you really think any of that is "for the public good?" Or is it perhaps somehow of benefit to Hospitals to be able to have the final say over whether a competitor can open shop, or buy an MRI machine?

    115. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Clinton gets millions every year for "giving speeches" to big corporations and foreign dignitaries. Their foundation gets many millions more, largely from foreign governments.

      These are exactly the things you proclaim as the bane of democracy. We've just seen the AP uncover the laundry list of people who used donations to the Clinton Foundation to gain access to the Secretary of State. And the state department is running out the clock on most of the detail - they just said they won't release the rest of her calendar until after the election.

      But no.... there's no fire there. It is the other guy who's beholden to big corporations and does the bidding of the evil big-money corporate conspiracy.

    116. Re: Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      rrrRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrwwwwww! It's obviously over your head. While I think that the program she used is inconsequential, it's proved she did use something to cover up something.

    117. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That were recovered from tape backups.

    118. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Unless you are the DA, you don't know the motivations behind why prosecution won't prosecute. But thanks for the conspiracy theory. There's of course the simpler argument that after you sift through the evidence, there's no mens rea and the evidence is flawed, with lots of fingers pointing at more than one party being guilty.

    119. Re: Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ok fine so your argument is that so someone by your own admission isn't entitled to a security clearance is fit to be commander and chief. Face it she should withdraw from the race

    120. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Don't forget the Presidential Records Act.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Records_Act

    121. Re: Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I would suggest you cease posting comments derogatory of our next President if I were in your place. In this day and age the consequences can be... Life-altering to say the least.

    122. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You don't know me, but after Tina Fey's Yahoo account was hacked I went and deleted every email on my yahoo account. That was roughly 12 years of stuff that I certainly didn't need anymore. I pretty much wipe it every new years day now.

    123. Re:Too secure for insecure? by kqs · · Score: 1

      Bush did the same thing? Then where's the evidence? Here's the problem. You're just wrong here. Bush+ didn't use a private email server

      Dear god. Are you telling me you know that Hillary is evil because of her email shenanigans, but don't know about the Bush email controversy? And also could not google "bush email" and see the first link?

      This is what I'm talking about. Both Bush and Hillary screwed up their email handling. Rational people are unhappy about both and complain about both. Partisan idiots wail about one of them but give the other a pass. Or don't even know about the earlier one, which takes some effort since it is often brought up in comparison to the current one, except on news sites aimed at partisan idiots.

      Citizens look at all the evidence. Partisan idiots parrot their favorite news site. Please be more of a citizen; we need more. A lot more.

    124. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I thought the problem with her using private mail servers, was that the e-mails were not recorded for public transparency and openness, not that she wasn't good at deleting the evidence.

    125. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Rob+Y. · · Score: 0

      That whole 'we little people would be in prison if we did this' meme is such bullshit. She didn't do anything, beyond send and receive stuff she was cleared to see. The people who get prosecuted for mishandling classified stuff get prosecuted for either viewing it without security clearance - or giving it to someone else without clearance. Petreus is brought up endlessly. Y'know, the guy who gave classified stuff to his journalist girlfriend. Hillary did nothing remotely like that.

      You can take issue with the private server thing. You can (sort of) take issue with (sort of) classified stuff showing up on the private server, but you ought to at least acknowledge that it was a tiny percentage of the traffic, and that stuff probably would've been sent on the unclassified DOS server had she been using that. To conflate the worst possible explanations for a bunch of separate incidents into a political scandal that put the country in danger is to lie about it.

      What we have here is a witch hunt for something - anything - about Benghazi that could paint Clinton in a politically unfavorable light. Even if the Benghazi events were spun to deemphasize the terrorism aspect - and there's no proof they were - that's not illegal. Yes, Clinton is sometimes her own worst enemy, but she's not wrong about folks being out to get her. Your interpretation of the 'scandal' is typical of that. Guilty without being charged...

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    126. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Are you really quoting Elijah Cummings as your source? Are you making a joke?

      The subpoena happened in August 2012, her deletion happened in December 2015. You are an outright liar, yes I said it. People like you are the problem with this country.

      Timeline

    127. Re:Too secure for insecure? by DaHat · · Score: 1

      You forgot about the earlier FOIA requests from groups like Judicial Watch which kept getting reports from the State Department saying they had no records responsive to their requests.

    128. Re:Too secure for insecure? by bongey · · Score: 1

      You are a dipshit ,you cited another source. "Bush White House has resulted in restoration of 22 million of the missing messages" Can you read ?
      Its not like the Obama IRS emails where multiple hard drives crashed and the tape backups were deleted.

    129. Re:Too secure for insecure? by khallow · · Score: 1

      Again, the two are not equivalent. The RNC email accounts were intended for political not official use (and they even had a law to point to which mandated this separation!). Clinton's server was used for official business and as a result induced a number of felony violations of the handling of classified information.

    130. Re:Too secure for insecure? by bongey · · Score: 2

      Clinton was even a classified data originator. She didn't have brains or just didn't think the rules applied to her to understand that she shouldn't have classified conversations on an unclassified server. Fucks sakes she didn't even have a login on to the classified system. More telling is the IT security folks were told to shut up about their objections to her email server.

    131. Re:Too secure for insecure? by bongey · · Score: 1

      No their name wasn't Clinton. If it were any other candidate in any political party right now, they would have been on trail right now.

    132. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Clinton sucks, but the big knock against her and her email server was that she wasn't secure enough with it.

      Dude you are distorting the truth. It isn't the fact that her server wasn't secured. It fact is IT IS AGAINST THE LAW TO TRANSMIT OR STORE CLASSIFIED DATA ON A PRIVATE SERVER. She broke the law and then had the server wiped to hide that fact. She knowingly and willingly broke the law. If I did this at work I would go to jail. This is fact.

      So looking at these facts and the fact that she is still walking around shows there are two sets of laws. One for the people in power and another set for us peons.

      Please stop distorting the truth and stick to the facts.

    133. Re:Too secure for insecure? by iamhassi · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Destruction of evidence is itself a crime. The difficulty is always in proving that's what happened - by definition you're missing a key piece of evidence.

      I'm less concerned about the destruction of evidence and more concerned that even though we know she's committing criminal acts, people are still supporting her for President. What does that say about them? We see criminals get away with things all the time, but usually they don't have a cheering section, and even if they do they're not trying to vote for them as President of the United States. Trump may be all the things they say about him, but Hillary is a criminal NOW, so what is she going to be like as President? If something does happen, it would be a giant SHE TOLD YOU SO.

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    134. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Reziac · · Score: 1

      No, no, no. Their argument is "I didn't do anything wrong when I did X. That guy over THERE did something wrong when he did not-really-X." Clinton logic.

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    135. Re:Too secure for insecure? by geekmux · · Score: 1

      I really can't find something to bitch about here. Sure, Clinton sucks, but the big knock against her and her email server was that she wasn't secure enough with it. Then, when she does do something secure, the knock is "See, she is so secure she must be hiding something!" Sorry, you can't bitch when she isn't secure and then bitch when she is. Was she hiding stuff? Most probably, since all politicians are. Do I trust her? Not a chance. But you can't set up a now in scenario as your reason for not liking her. You can't bitch about insecurity and then bitch about too much security at the same time.

      Yes, in fact we can bitch with the polarity of being insecure and too secure. It's called discussing classified information over an insecure communications medium, and then trying to hide that illegal activity with secure tools that made it somehow impossible to validate. This ultimately allowed her to get away with it in a scenario where anyone else not named "Clinton" would be in a Federal PMITA prison by now. You know, instead of running for the most powerful position on the planet.

      Believe me we can speak in conflicting dualities all damn day long when discussing a Clinton. They were born on htraE, and their inexplicable ability to skirt the law proves the logic from their world is bleeding over into ours.

    136. Re:Too secure for insecure? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

      You are a dipshit ,you cited another source. "Bush White House has resulted in restoration of 22 million of the missing messages" Can you read ?

      The trick is that you have to read more than just the headline.

      "An investigation into e-mails that seemed to have disappeared from the Bush White House has resulted in restoration of 22 million of the missing messages and a deal to uncover what could be millions of other e-mails that allegedly fell through cracks in the archiving system, two nonprofit groups said Monday.
      However, an untold number of official e-mails from President George W. Bush's era will probably never be recovered because it would be extremely costly to do so, lawyers involved in lawsuits brought by the National Security Archive and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said.
      "While we have not gotten every e-mail, some major gaps have been filled," said Meredith Fuchs, an attorney for the National Security Archive.
      "

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    137. Re: Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Congress declares them classified"?! Talk about being a shill.. some of those emails were classified when created, something Hillary would of known if she was awake in briefings about how security clearance works.. but it is only commoners who go to jail for ignoring those rules

    138. Re:Too secure for insecure? by jeff4747 · · Score: 2

      These are actually, real life people in actual, real life prison. Right now.

      If you insist Clinton should get a pass, why should they not get a pass?

    139. Re:Too secure for insecure? by jeff4747 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      That whole 'we little people would be in prison if we did this' meme is such bullshit.

      You used the wrong tense. It's not "would be". It's "are".

      There are "little people" currently in prison for negligent handling of classified. Right now. Actually in prison.

      She didn't do anything, beyond send and receive stuff she was cleared to see.

      Which means she broke the law. Being "cleared to see it" doesn't mean you can see it anywhere you want, any time you want. There are requirements for handling the information.

      And a server in her basement that did not use encrypted connections for months, and then had the default VPN keys on the VPN appliance once they started using encryption, and an Internet-connected printer on the same network is nowhere near close to meeting those requirements.

      Petreus is brought up endlessly. Y'know, the guy who gave classified stuff to his journalist girlfriend

      His journalist girlfriend had a clearance.

      According to your gross misunderstanding of our classification system, what crime did Petraeus commit? He had a clearance, and his girlfriend had a clearance. If "had a clearance" is good enough to excuse Clinton, then why was it not good enough to excuse Patraeus?

      but you ought to at least acknowledge that it was a tiny percentage of the traffic

      Please cite where the statute states the percentage of allowable leaks.

      and that stuff probably would've been sent on the unclassified DOS server had she been using that

      First, government servers are regularly scanned for classified, so it would have been caught long before there were thousands of classified in her email.

      Second, the unclassified DoS server is far, far, far more secure than her basement server. For example, they don't have default VPN keys installed.

      What we have here is a witch hunt for something - anything - about Benghazi that could paint Clinton in a politically unfavorable light.

      No, this has absolutely nothing to do with Benghazi. But shouting "Benghazi!!!!" does a great job getting people like you to turn off their critical thinking and accept this week's excuse.

    140. Re: Too secure for insecure? by FeltLion · · Score: 1

      How this was upvoted, I don't know. The security and lack of it was done in two completely different contexts, but you've wrapped them up into a single strawman and cried foul. Whether ignorant, naive, or deliberate lying, but definitely not 5 stars.

    141. Re: Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "A few grams of heroin among 10s of thousands of grams of other luggage does not make a criminal of someone"

      "A few pedestrians hit among 10s of thousands missed does not make a criminal of someone"

      Fuck off shill.

    142. Re: Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Lock up colin powell and condi AND hillary? Sounds good to me!

    143. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And I doubt she did it. One of her IT techs were told that they should not leave old information hanging around on their bomputers so (s)he did what (s)he was supposed to. I have no doubt Hillary is a manipulative lying briminal bunt but on this she is 100% in the blear in my eyes.

      (I can't say the letter "b")

    144. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Unless they were retroactively classified for political reasons?

    145. Re: Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "malice of forethought"

      Wow, its a real doggy dog world out there.

    146. Re:Too secure for insecure? by chill · · Score: 2

      There are "little people" currently in prison for negligent handling of classified. Right now. Actually in prison.

      There are also several that aren't. Administrative punishments are common, depending on the material in question, and the circumstances. In some cases, absolutely nothing was done.

      For example, all of the people who accessed the early Wikileaks stuff and those people who accessed the Guardian articles that contained the Snowden material. There was an entire PR campaign directed at Executive Branch Agencies reminding people that "until officially declassified, just because it is published in public doesn't mean you can read it".

      I personally contacted DHS regarding multiple "classified spills" surrounding the Wikileaks material being accessed on non-Classified systems and sent around in e-mail. Their answer? "Delete it and remind people not to do that. No, you don't have to destroy you entire MS Exchange storage array."

      Under your criteria, hundreds of people would have been put in jail. They weren't and some of that Snowden stuff was SCI/Code word.

      The Wikileaks stuff in 2010 was Bradley Manning's leak of, mostly, diplomatic cables -- exactly the type of stuff Clinton was dealing with -- except Clinton's was indirect reference (e-mail about) not full cables. In other words, de minimis.

      According to your gross misunderstanding of our classification system, what crime did Petraeus commit? He had a clearance, and his girlfriend had a clearance. If "had a clearance" is good enough to excuse Clinton, then why was it not good enough to excuse Patraeus?

      You're baiting him. You know the difference, which is Patraeus committed a conscious, direct act in knowingly and intentionally giving classified material to a person who was not authorized to have it. Clearance or not, she didn't have the necessary "need to know".

      He also explicitly and directly lied to the FBI investigators by flat out denying he did it. Hillary has been very indirect and there is no indication she every did ANYTHING remotely similar to Patraeus.

      There is a significant difference between "here is my notebook loaded with TS/SCI material that you shouldn't see" and, to the FBI, "never happened"; and "received or sent e-mail that may have contained a sentence or two copy-pasted from (95%) Confidential material".

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    147. Re:Too secure for insecure? by flargleblarg · · Score: 1

      In the eyes of the law (courts), spoliation of evidence is equivalent to guilt, but perhaps to a lessor degree.

      I think you mean lesser. A lessor is someone who leases, e.g., a landlord.

    148. Re:Too secure for insecure? by flargleblarg · · Score: 2

      No their name wasn't Clinton. If it were any other candidate in any political party right now, they would have been on trail right now.

      She is on trail right now. On the campaign trail.

    149. Re:Too secure for insecure? by flargleblarg · · Score: 3, Funny

      Destruction of evidence is itself a crime.

      Destruction of evidence of a crime is a crime.
      If you destroy evidence that you took a poop yesterday morning, that is not a crime.

    150. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Etcetera · · Score: 2

      Unless they were retroactively classified for political reasons?

      I'd say the chances are pretty slim on that, with all of the attention this is getting. There are dozens, if not hundreds of FBI and intelligence folks working on this, and surely any decision to classify (or re-classify) is getting multiple layers of review as a result of the fallout everyone knows it would be getting.

    151. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Can you blame Clinton. The GOP has been harassing her and Bill for 25 years. This is enough to make anyone paranoid about security!

      This is an unnecessary distraction. For anyone but GOP base, nothing more than an eye role, look Republicans are claiming the sky is falling again, If they actually are able to prove anything note worthy, no one will believe as they have called wolf for decades.

      Maybe Hillary should call sexual harassment on the GOP, maybe she could get a lawyer to take the case.

    152. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's just epic stupidity.

      There is no reason for the Clinton.com email server to be used for official business other than to evade federal law. Every excuse she offered was proven to be a lie, but you didn't need that evidence anyway, because they didn't make any sense on the face of it.

      It is perfectly reasonable for Hillary Clinton of all people to want to exercise control over who can snoop through her email looking for tinfoil-hat "smoking guns" about the Illuminati. She's got a few decades of relevant experience under her belt in dealing with that sort of scrutiny.

      So it makes sense, and there is no other rational explanation for it to exist other than skirting the federal open records act. But you just keep holding on to a lame and disproven tu-cuoque. Look, nobody is claiming that she intended the server to be that way so she could have top secret information in her house. The entire point was clearly to keep embarrassing stuff from being released in open records requests.

      Stop pretending it is anything other than what it is. You sound stupid doing it. Like those nutter Bush supporters you used to rail against. She came up with a scheme to protect herself from embarrassment and accidentally compromised national security because of it. She got damn lucky that she had enough friends out there to protect her from prosecution, because plenty of people have felonies on their record for less. Just laugh and say "yeah, she dodged a bullet on that one" and be done with it.

    153. Re:Too secure for insecure? by jeff4747 · · Score: 1

      There are also several that aren't. Administrative punishments are common, depending on the material in question, and the circumstances

      Yes, they mishandled a very small number of classified documents, or mishandled a public-but-not-declassified document like Wikileaks.

      They did not set up their own server at home, utterly fail to secure that server, and then put many thousands of classified documents on it. The people who mishandled classified on that scale are in prison....unless they are Hillary Clinton.

      Scale of the offense is frequently used when deciding an administrative punishment is sufficient. What Clinton did is much larger than people given administrative punishments, yet she received zero punishment.

      except Clinton's was indirect reference (e-mail about) not full cables. In other words, de minimis.

      Nope. The FBI found entire classified documents. Not just discussions of classified documents. It's in their report.

      You're baiting him. You know the difference, which is Patraeus committed a conscious, direct act

      I am baiting him, since he's utterly wrong about the rules on classification. I'm attempting to show him that his framework of excuses is faulty.

      But you are wrong about intent. Intent is not required to violate the law here. Gross negligence is explicitly in the statute. And when Comey testified on the results of his investigation, it was clear there was gross negligence. In fact, Comey had to dance around the non-indictment by claiming the law was kinda sorta unclear whether they really meant gross negligence when they passed the law....despite the people in prison under that same statute.

      and "received or sent e-mail that may have contained a sentence or two copy-pasted from (95%) Confidential material"

      The problem with this argument is the FBI's report does not say it was only a sentence or two. It says there were thousands of classified emails, some of which were entire classified documents, markings and all.

      That's why the Clinton campaign switched from their position last summer of "after the fact classification" to "we weren't indicted" today. Because their first defense was shown to be a lie. (And the second, and the third, but this 4th one is totally awesome).

    154. Re:Too secure for insecure? by chill · · Score: 1

      The problem with this argument is the FBI's report does not say it was only a sentence or two. It says there were thousands of classified emails, some of which were entire classified documents, markings and all.

      No, it didn't. At least Comey's summary says nothing of the sort.

      https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clinton2019s-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system

      "Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were âoeup-classifiedâ to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent."

      And...

      "With respect to the thousands of e-mails we found that were not among those produced to State, agencies have concluded that three of those were classified at the time they were sent or received, one at the Secret level and two at the Confidential level. There were no additional Top Secret e-mails found. Finally, none of those we found have since been âoeup-classified.â

      Finally...

      "Separately, it is important to say something about the marking of classified information. Only a very small number of the e-mails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information."

      So flat out, unless you are in possession of a different report that indicates Comey made up the summary in whole cloth, you're being dishonest in your claims.

      An insightful read: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/the-forgotten-1957-trial-that-explains-our-countrys-bizarre-whistleblower-laws-213771

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    155. Re: Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As should Trump, neither of them are fit to be president. There may be an election coming up soon, but the results are already in, America's lost.

    156. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I am very sorry but it has become very clear to me that the RIght wing and the Left wing are part of the same bird. The country is disgusted with the political class because it is all about them. We have come a long way from a time when ethics mattered and Attorney Generals quit when asked to behave unethically. Our Government institutions that used to be a political have crossed the line been caught and nothing happens. The apoplexy of the Democratic Political class when Bernie gave Hillary a run was instructive on how fixed the process has become. The apoplexy in the Republican Political class the same. We have a God Damn Hobson's choice of a completely disreputable person who has been elevated above the law and couldn't navigate a turd in a piss pot with two sticks and a preachers hand to guide her and an anti politician who has yet to learn how to tell someone to go to hell so nicely that they ask for instructions and cut some one with so sharp an instrument that they walk ten steps before knowing it. It is hilarious watching the political class twitch. You can't fix stupid it is a permanent condition. They demonstrated who they are. FRom the press to the politicians. The political class is getting exactly what they ordered up. Trump has been my entertainment,he could drop a load on the White House Lawn and I would clap and be delighted with the reaction. They can all go right to hell. And I have no interest in participating in a rigged system except a vote against it that will be stolen.

    157. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thats your big argument is "Bush did it too"? So here is the deal.

      Then when people go "wow, fuck these parties, they're both alike", some dumbshit like you is going to go. "What on earth could they be talking about, the two parties cannot be more different".

      Which is my point. A vote for Hillary is a vote for bush.

    158. Re:Too secure for insecure? by bongey · · Score: 1

      You're either a troll or a hillary drone or just dumb as box of rocks. The SAME 22 MILLION MISSING EMAILS were recovered and the lawsuit was settled by the Obama administration. Cherry picking that there might be one or two emails out there that are still missing , doesn't mean 22 MILLION emails are still missing. Fuck do you think a liberal lawsuit against Bush would have been settled with the Obama Admin if they still thought even a 10% of the emails were still missing? (Answer Fuck No!)

    159. Re:Too secure for insecure? by h33t+l4x0r · · Score: 1

      If it were any other candidate in any political party right now, they would have been on trail right now.

      If it were Trump, he would just blame someone else and it would go away immediately. In fact, I'd be surprised if he can go a month into his first term without tweeting something classified. He just gets away with shit.

      If it were Gary Johnson or Jill Stein? Well, let's face it, they're never going to have access to anything classified so we don't need to worry about it.

    160. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Raenex · · Score: 0

      People keep saying this, but they have no reason to believe it. You only get prosecuted in a case like this, if they can show that you had intent to trade national secrets.

      http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

      https://www.marinecorpstimes.c...

      http://www.politifact.com/trut...

      http://www.nationalreview.com/...

    161. Re: Too secure for insecure? by khallow · · Score: 1
      Gross negligence is not merely mishandling. It's worth noting again that she pulled classified documents and information onto a private email server for years, taking no corrective action until investigations were underway.

      I do not want Hillary to be President--but if right wing whackos keep making crap up instead of going after her numerous letitimate bad positions and policies, when something really, legitimately bad does come up nobody is going to pay attention. That's almost handing her a ticket to the White House.

      I think it's because there is blood in the water. Clinton hasn't been caught red-handed like this before with multiple felonies. It's like Al Capone and tax evasion. Sometimes someone gets caught on a weaker crime than the main one.

    162. Re:Too secure for insecure? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

      Cherry picking that there might be one or two emails out there that are still missing

      It's not, "one or two". Maybe you missed this part of the story:

      However, an untold number of official e-mails from President George W. Bush's era will probably never be recovered because it would be extremely costly to do so, lawyers involved in lawsuits brought by the National Security Archive and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said.

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    163. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It does not count if Congress declares any one of these emails classified after the fact for political effect.

      You're begging the question here. Information is classified based on the content, markings are irrelevant. There's explicitly statutory language that indicates that someone who Should Know that data involved Should Be classified should be treating it as classified, *regardless* of any markings or lack thereof.

      First, just to be clear, which unclassified server used means nothing legally, save that you could argue carelessness for the home one, which they did. In general prosecutions for unintentional classified leaks has not occurred, as was explained by comey (sp?). It would be a bad idea if it did, since if you are regularly prosecuting engineers that screw up in their daily jobs then finding people willing to take those positions may get very difficult, and you can't get an H1B there. Should Hillary not have screwed up? Sure. She is also a very busy person. People screw up from time to time. Trump has had how many bankruptcies now, and failed to pay how many people destroying how many businesses and lives? Worse, he did it deliberately.

      Nothing is being classified "for political effect"... and if something is, then that's a scandal in and of itself.

      Things are classified every day for the simple reason is that it is far easier to over classify than to under classify. Hillary. or anyone in a similar position, probably could have done most of her communications via the classified email system, making all the emails classified, at least until you reviewed each and every one to determine its exact content based not on what should have been classified at the time it was originated, but what should be classified at the current time. I suspect that will be the approach taken more often going forward.

      More importantly, your naive if you think that politics will have zero effect on the classification process at their level, particularly for someone like Clinton and her emails. It doesn't take much, just err on the side of "disclosure" when it embarrasses your political opponent and err on the side of "protecting secrets" when it supports your political openest. The underlings doing the job don't even need a memo, they just need to pay attention to what their manager says, perhaps say over lunch... Any sudden promotions after the fact, well they are because those people did such a good job.

      It is amazing anyone even the job of President these days. Hillary has been accused of being somehow complicit in pretty much every crime you can imagine, with no proof whatsoever. Her past impressive track record has been analyzed under thousands of microscopes with not truth in mind but destroying her. Her opponent on the other hand gets patted on the head and praised for his new found teleprompter skills, because he has gone 2 consecutive days without saying something stupid, when just a short time ago Obama was insulted as nothing but teleprompter.

      Bitch about Clinton all you want guys, but do it in perspective. You know a massive amount about her, and bitch about only a tiny portion of it. We know almost nothing about Trump's so called business skills other than there is a lot of questionable behavior, destroyed lives, and bullshit.

    164. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It says they expect their leaders to be criminals.

    165. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Are you really that naive ?

    166. Re:Too secure for insecure? by danbert8 · · Score: 2

      It is if a judge ordered you to submit your poop for inspection.

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    167. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I still have a problem with a criminal of Clinton's order actually deleting emails. My opinion is that the server drive was cloned and then one of the copies was BleachBitted. Something like that dumpy animal and her perverted mate wouldn't permanently erase anything that could be used as a weapon in the future.

      Just restrain them, and stick enough pins in them, and you'll find that virgin drive soon enough!

    168. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Triklyn · · Score: 1

      nah, incompetent we can deal with. just vote good downballot.

      malicious and competent is worse.

    169. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I agree. Deleting the emails was illegal and she should be thrown in jail for it, but the fact that her IT people seemed to have actually done something right for once and deleted the emails property doesn't add any drama to the issue.

    170. Re:Too secure for insecure? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

      nah, incompetent we can deal with. just vote good downballot.

      If voting downballot is your security blanket, then that applies both to bumbling incompetence and ruthless competence.

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    171. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      She destroyed evidence when she had received a subpoena for it.

      https://benghazi.house.gov/sit...

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    172. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      I don't get this sea of ACs defending her actions.

      https://www.fbi.gov/news/press...

      FBI investigators have also read all of the approximately 30,000 e-mails provided by Secretary Clinton to the State Department in December 2014. Where an e-mail was assessed as possibly containing classified information, the FBI referred the e-mail to any U.S. government agency that was a likely “owner” of information in the e-mail, so that agency could make a determination as to whether the e-mail contained classified information at the time it was sent or received, or whether there was reason to classify the e-mail now, even if its content was not classified at the time it was sent (that is the process sometimes referred to as “up-classifying”).

      From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent.

      The FBI also discovered several thousand work-related e-mails that were not in the group of 30,000 that were returned by Secretary Clinton to State in 2014. We found those additional e-mails in a variety of ways. Some had been deleted over the years and we found traces of them on devices that supported or were connected to the private e-mail domain. Others we found by reviewing the archived government e-mail accounts of people who had been government employees at the same time as Secretary Clinton, including high-ranking officials at other agencies, people with whom a Secretary of State might naturally correspond.

      When the FBI director comes out and says 52 classified, 8 TS, 36 Secret, 8 Confidential (at the time of transmission), and 2000 that were later up-classified, as they had not been previously classified, you know you done f'd up. Defending the 2000 as if the other 52 didn't exist makes no sense. It is trying to conceal the nature of the crime by changing the story.

      I can only presume that the ACs are paid by Clinton to defend her, as they are just parroting the talking points that were shattered months ago.

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    173. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Incorrect "lessor".

    174. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Triklyn · · Score: 1

      ruthless competence is competent at being wily though.

      don't think hillary is malicious though, not truly.

      self-serving yes, but i don't know which i prefer, trump's damage mitigated by congress, or hillary's surface appeasement while selling our liberty to the highest bidder.

      to be fair, i don't think either outcome would be what their bases think they'll get.

    175. Re:Too secure for insecure? by mrclevesque · · Score: 1

      Powell?

    176. Re:Too secure for insecure? by mrclevesque · · Score: 1

      Please do

    177. Re:Too secure for insecure? by mrclevesque · · Score: 1

      Show me the something that proves that

      All I've seen is the satellite picture someone send her that should have been labeled classified but wasn't when she received it, and all the information that wasn't classified but the government decided to classify knowing her emails were going to opened to the public.

    178. Re:Too secure for insecure? by mrclevesque · · Score: 1

      Not really

    179. Re:Too secure for insecure? by mrclevesque · · Score: 1

      If there were criminal actions it wouldn't

    180. Re:Too secure for insecure? by mrclevesque · · Score: 1

      Yes, there is, but the difference isn't relevant in this case

    181. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Coren22 you destroy yourself publicly lying, libeling, and stalking apk https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9577115&cid=52791605/ and you hide behind a fake name online which explains a great deal about you. You are the loser apk proves you are and your antics help him do it. Priceless!

    182. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Coren22 I don't get you hiding behind a fake name online stalking, lying, and libeling apk https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9577115&cid=52791605/ so go to your M-F 6 to midnite menial data entry job you also work on weekends. I find it priceless you try deceive us into thinking you have a good normal job 9-5 but your posting constantly all day long on slashdot gives it away along with the fact you're admittedly mentally retarded with assburgers/outism Coren!

    183. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Rakarra · · Score: 1

      Again, the two are not equivalent. The RNC email accounts were intended for political not official use (and they even had a law to point to which mandated this separation!).

      That was the intention, but not the result. During the attorney-firing controversy, White House officials conducted official business on private servers set up by the RNC. The RNC then admitted that those emails were lost. Now it's not quite apples to apples in similarity, as Bush himself was not known to be one of those people, nor were these top-secret documents.

    184. Re:Too secure for insecure? by rtb61 · · Score: 1

      So was the evidence in question destroyed or just hidden. To get this straight, the NSA, the CIA, the Secret Service, the FBI and Homeland Security were all totally and utterly blithely unaware that a key intelligence asset, the Secretary of States communications server, was in an unsecured location, exposed to the public with limited security and hooked into unsecured communication lines and receiving communications from around the world including foreign countries and their intelligence services. I find that stupendously hard to believe, in fact based upon foreign communications monitoring of incoming foreign communications, factually impossible. The US government via the NSA has a complete copy of every email sent and via the current corrupt administration is actively hiding them, because Clinton is their stooge and a guaranteed obedient one. What a bloody mess, they have managed to stick themselves in, trying to force the election of a universally hated figure to sell policies the public hates, whilst main stream which no one believes any more is trying to sell this bullshit.

      All the emails will come out, plus many other communications, bit by bit to cause as much damage to the US government as possible, so most of it after the election, so the whole world can see the corruption and failure to prosecute.

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    185. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Agripa · · Score: 1

      So is making false statements or concealing information but I do not see Clinton getting the Martha Stewart treatment.

    186. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You can use the right tools at the wrong moments and act mala fides. Tweeter is not that much to protect it that way. What WAR are they trying to prevent therefore they lose it for all of us without giving a fight? Crisis that would destabilize the country? I still want to retrieve email I sent in forms to those servers, seemingly, as I do not have a copy and it was IMPORTANT her office knew of it in time. I would ask: What Chinese or Chinese ideology is behind choosing email bleaching?

    187. Re:Too secure for insecure? by Anonymous+Cow+Ward · · Score: 1

      Some emails were classified when they were on the server. Some emails were not marked as classified, but still contained classified information. It's not much ado about nothing; she definitely mishandled classified information, and did so on a large scale.

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  2. Responsible? by Ixokai · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why is this being portrayed like she did it because she had something to hide?

    This is the responsible thing to do.

    1. Re:Responsible? by Triklyn · · Score: 5, Insightful

      no, the responsible thing to do is to turn it over to the justice department and let them fucking shred it.

    2. Re: Responsible? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      When you are being throwing away an old computer, not when you are being investigated by the FBI.

    3. Re:Responsible? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

      Except we have no right to see her private email. She managed a $3 million dollar wedding plus her personal life using her server. We have no right to invade her privacy like that.

    4. Re:Responsible? by GerryGilmore · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Let me try. First, her entire purpose in having said private email server was explicitly to protect her privacy - something she is very sensitive about. The issue, and what separates her situation from that of Colin Powell, is that she used that server for both personal and official email exchanges. This defies both basic common sense and several applicable federal laws - laws which were *NOT* part of the recently concluded FBI investigation. That investigation was about the content of the emails and their classification, NOT - again - the real violation of law and common sense. Bottom line is that her credibility is in question because of a series of actions, all attributable to her paranoia and penchant for secrecy.

    5. Re:Responsible? by Triklyn · · Score: 5, Insightful

      we're also not the ones who mixed her personal and professional lives. she is.

      she's the public face of the state department, which has policies in place to make sure that their correspondence are both secure and archived... so people can go back and look into them to make sure everything is aboveboard.

      she sacrificed her right to privacy on her private correspondence when she conducted professional business on the same server.

      i don't want to see her fucking wedding photos, but i want someone to make sure that she wasn't selling access to the office of the secretary of state of the united states. and if someone with clearance in the justice department needs to comb through 4 years of "private" emails to make sure, then she has only herself to blame.

    6. Re:Responsible? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1, Informative

      The issue, and what separates her situation from that of Colin Powell, is that she used that server for both personal and official email exchanges.

      http://www.pbs.org/weta/washin...

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    7. Re:Responsible? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why is this being portrayed like she did it because she had something to hide?

      This is the responsible thing to do.

      No, it's called spoliation of evidence.

    8. Re:Responsible? by david_thornley · · Score: 1

      Got any evidence that she was selling access? The stuff I've seen seems to say that donating money to the Clinton Foundation may have gotten you access to Bill, but not the State Department.

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    9. Re:Responsible? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Since it was Not illegal at the time you can't change the rules.
      It was allowed.
      Giving the Government the printed emails was allowed.
      The Government want her to sort them, she hire someone to do it.
      They changed the Law , But the Constitution says it can't be retroactive.

      The Bush Whitehouse did the same thing with a GOP Server.
      And God can't get those emails back either.

    10. Re:Responsible? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I am Not sure about how Common Sense applies to Sever Security or Federal Law.
      Common People might be upset about a disk wipe, IT Professionals better not be.

      Several applicable federal laws? Name them. She violated zero laws by having the server.
      The Laws changed after she left, the do not apply to the past.

      The Only issue is the classification level of the emails.
      Read the Law, it was written to cover then congress, it is quite weaselly.

    11. Re:Responsible? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I shit my pants. I'll send them your way to clean.

    12. Re:Responsible? by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 1

      Got any evidence that she was selling access?

      Really? Given the title and subject matter your go to defense is "E-mails? What e-mails?"

    13. Re:Responsible? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's right. After you get a subpoena for data, the responsible thing is to delete everything as fast as you can.

    14. Re:Responsible? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Any arguments supporting that she attempted to erase a trail of email evidence for any reason while she was in public office... is ludicrous. That she chose to accomplish this with a software program designed to remove all traces of evidence should be enough for everyone concerned. Public is public.. we don't care about the details of why she decided her email wasn't qualified for the judgment of the American people. We don't care about why she decided to wear white after labor day. What we should be concerned about is her blatant disregard of regulations that she swore to abide by... About classified emails that wound up on her personal server that she claims were not classified and her attempt to subterfuge our system of government to insulate her from the trials of law in a court of the American people. Sheeple are sheeple.. the rest of us are currently forced to get mad about it without a legal vehicle to make her answer to charges that the average grunt would have already served 3 years in Leavenworth for.

    15. Re:Responsible? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      She is supposed to archive all work related emails. This applies to government employees, contractors, and even just plain old corporations. 15 years ago companies would explain this legal obligation to their employees - they were supposed to archive stuff themselves. Now it is done by the IT department for each organization. Even if it was kosher for her to use her own server, she was supposed to archive everything. Wiping work related emails would be against the regulations.

    16. Re: Responsible? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Because you just don't go from being innocent and non tech savvy to securely deleting data so that no one ever sees. If she's going to play a movie part here, she needs to stick to the I don't know anything about computers and only wipe things with a rag or I'm being secure and security cautious, wiping data so it isn't leaked role. You don't get to jump parts as needed to benefit your cause at that given time because smart people know better.

    17. Re:Responsible? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Bottom line is that her credibility is in question because of a series of actions, all attributable to her paranoia and penchant for secrecy.

      One person's "paranoia" and "penchant for secrecy" is another person's "reasonable precaution".

      Remember, the Bush white house destroyed 22 million e-mails. (Reference.) Yet, few people engage in relentless, blistering attacks against Bush for "paranoia" or a "penchant for secrecy" for destroying those e-mails.

    18. Re:Responsible? by guruevi · · Score: 1

      Per definition her e-mail was public record and should've been turned over to the proper archivists, they have the job of filtering out private e-mails (if any). She knew about it and when the investigation started, she destroyed the evidence. You don't use BleachBit on a live Windows server, if you've ever worked with Exchange, all e-mails are stored in binary blobs. You can't destroy 'just the bad', you have to destroy the entire system.

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    19. Re:Responsible? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yea.... cuz when I fuck up, I put my head on a platter for my boss and never try to undo my fuckup! /s

    20. Re:Responsible? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Powell used his AOL account for official government business including emailing foreign dignitaries, and personal emails. The emails were completely out of his control on AOL's server, and we have no idea who accessed them. Not only that, but he deleted his entire account when he left office so there is no way to know what else he had in the account. It would have been much better if he had at least used his own server instead of exposing state emails to unknown employees or intruders at AOL. The best conclusion you can reach from this type of information is that there is a serious double standard for Hillary Clinton versus other secretaries of state and government officials.

    21. Re:Responsible? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      she's the public face of the state department, which has policies in place to make sure that their correspondence are both secure and archived... so people can go back and look into them to make sure everything is aboveboard.

      It gets even better, every year she sent an email to every state department worker reminding them they could be fired (or worse) for conducting official business on private email accounts... Did no one in her inner circle pick up on the conflict? Of course not - those email blasts didn't make it to their @clintonemail.com email accounts!

    22. Re:Responsible? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Since it was Not illegal at the time you can't change the rules.
      It was allowed.

      That's a lie. She did not seek authorization for her private server. If she had, the request would have been turned down. She broke the law, and her intent to do so is clear.

    23. Re:Responsible? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The entire Bush white house should also be in jail too. They can take the cell next to Hillary as far as I'm concerned.

    24. Re:Responsible? by nctritech · · Score: 1

      So it's okay to commit a crime because someone else got away with doing so before you did? Understood.

    25. Re:Responsible? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

      So it's okay to commit a crime because someone else got away with doing so before you did?

      No. It's hypocrisy to care about a crime only when the person you don't like committed it.

      Have a little moral clarity.

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    26. Re:Responsible? by nctritech · · Score: 1

      Notice the "current" in "current events." There's nothing to be done about Powell today; the matter could be re-opened, but complaints about that needed to happen when it was a current issue. Hillary's email server issue is a current issue and Hillary wants to be the president of the entire country while Powell is out of the picture. Stop pretending the two issues should carry the same weight today just because the person you like is the one who's currently under the microscope. Shifting the focus to Powell is an attempt at distraction.

    27. Re:Responsible? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

      There's nothing to be done about Powell today

      The story we've been discussing has nothing to do with Colin Powell.

      Maybe you should read some of those links before you give an opinion, see what the whole thing was about.

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  3. Deflection by Mikkeles · · Score: 0, Troll

    Trump is only running to prevent a realistic republican from running against Hillary because, otherwise, very few would support her because of her behavior.

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    1. Re:Deflection by arbiter1 · · Score: 0

      There are a lot of her supporters ONLY voting for her cause they want to see a women as president which is dumbest reason to vote for someone. They voted for Obama cause he is black, how has that worked out for this country? 20trillion in debt, worst recovery probably in history, sky rocketing people on food stamps, sky rocketing health costs.

    2. Re:Deflection by OhPlz · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I can't believe her campaign signs are "4 her" and not "4 us". Pretty much says everything you need to know. There are laws 4 us, and there are special exceptions to those laws 4 her.

    3. Re:Deflection by mrclevesque · · Score: 2

      "sky rocketing people on food stamps"

      yeah, and rocket trips don't come cheap

    4. Re:Deflection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There are a lot of her supporters ONLY voting for her cause they want to see a women as president which is dumbest reason to vote for someone.

      No matter how right or good someone is, there will always be "a lot of supporters" who are idiots. Your totally made up statistic proves nothing.
      I do take issue with it being the dumbest reason. I heard someone on Slashdot say they were going to vote for Trump only because so many people don't like him.

    5. Re:Deflection by Mikkeles · · Score: 0

      "a lot" is not a statistic.

      Voting for an arsehole because nobody likes him is only minutely better than voting for someone based on sex.

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  4. Former DoD sysad by OffTheLip · · Score: 4, Informative

    I used DBAN routinely in 7 wipe mode. I'd be surprised had she not chosen something like that in spite of the cloth remark.

    1. Re:Former DoD sysad by TykeClone · · Score: 4, Funny

      BleachBit's new tagline: "We're the dustcloth for the DNC!"

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    2. Re:Former DoD sysad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      DoD must have a pretty big kiddie porn problem.

      Or did that go away after you did?

    3. Re:Former DoD sysad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      BleachBit's new tagline: "Not Even God can recover the data!"

    4. Re:Former DoD sysad by bongey · · Score: 1

      Since it had Secret Data it was still incorrect. Where I worked we would wiped the hard drive and then they were taken to steel mill and melted down. Also it isn't standard procedure to suddenly to delete all the data on all the servers. Also there is offsite data backups for TS/S data, you just don't delete. Clinton's lawyers had the emails on USB drives , then destroyed them too. (Note Google even shreds their disk http://www.doncio.navy.mil/Con...)

    5. Re:Former DoD sysad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The fiat dollar always said

      "IN GOD WE MISTRUST"

      you just were not wearing your glasses.

      if you think about it though it makes perfect sense to get the population to TRUST GOD, and TRUST GOD protects this fiat dollar they (lets talk about they, they the FOREIGN BANKSTERS who don't OBEY the US LAW OF THE LAND! they who congress allows to perpetuate treason against the people) make now from an electronic computer screen with 1's and 0's.

      Maybe God doesn't exist. While, You could say that, it's better to say that GOD (a concept beyond human comprehension and sex organ, size, power or feelings) can't TOUCH US in this plane of existence. I do this myself and I call it "IT" IT is god with a big CAPITOL G but can not touch this plane of existence. Strike me down now.... see nothing...IT doesn't care about striking anything. It doesn't care about +3v +5v 0's and 1's.

      Instead we create stone gods to interact with. We put belief into things and they become so. IN GOD WE TRUST.

      Great so with this I cast the spell
      IN JESUS WE TRUST (triple stealing back for those counting)
      Now I want to write the CODE for the spell...
      pay attention..
      0. gosub 10
      1. gosub 20
      2. gosub 0

      10.
      11th marble
      return

      20.
      echo "$100 BILL FIAT HA HA HA ~ U SLAVE WAR BITCH!"
      return

      I Cast the spell
      Damage the Election bits.....

      GOSUB 0
      GOSUB 1
      END

      X = $TOTAL ; ACTUAL VOTES PRAISE #LVX #INRI (..)

      0
      $TOTAL + 1

      1
      $TOTAL + 666
      GOSUB 1
      RETURN

        nees some debugging I am sure...but you should see the flaw right off the bat. "Ahem using basic"

      I just want you twistin in the wind, your not the ONLY religion or NON religion who can HEX edit or run disasm.pl NOW think for yourself! Treat your fucking neighbor (even if you hate em) with respect. Don't HURT others or allow murdering fucking death cults who will are NOT a RELIGION. If your taking money for treason--may god (who can't touch you) have mercy on ya, cause I won't.

      IF DOJ don't start fixing the TREASON soon, I suggest if you take the Handgun Safety Class and get a CCW hand gun, cause you never know what crap they leaked on us veterans, OPM could their database be in ISIS hands? do we have backstabbing racist satanic dual citizens running government?

      Am I fucking crazy for asking aloud why the fuck I am worried about OPM database leak and the fact the government CREATED FUCKING ISIS and doesn't close the fucking border.

      Fuck these Commies. THEY ARE KILLING US!
      They wrecked my Foreign Coding (Yes source code)Friends in many countries (backstabbed them) I hate this shit as an American, I pray Putin understands .. I love some of the RUSSIAN people I met over the years, I met mathmatitian that kicked my ass and taught me HELL OF SHIT!! .. the AMERICAN PEOPLE can't stop this government at the moment cause the fucking media LIES to us keeping the SHEEP uninformed--this IS changing though. Kind of like the demented fuckin ISRAEL government psychopaths are not my blessed Jewish Grandmother. it's another deception yet at the end of the day my GRANDMOTHER doesn't have her hand on the fuckin button of a missile. the commie infiltration does. I pray cooler heads prevail while hopefully these commies are removed out of our government and we are left with leaders who treat other countries as a NEIGHBOR with respect.

      I say go for your CHS CCW (California), fix your health, get off state/gov dependency, quit fucking round and prep like you mean it, equalize power where you can uphold the constitution, and where you can't you fight your damn best help others avoid these commie pointy knives. You need to keep in mind these people commit TREASON...

  5. Never that specific program by ArtemaOne · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But any time you stop using a hard drive you should clean it. I have probably 6 hard drives on a shelf in my house because I've replaced them with larger or faster drives. Each one has had the free space randomized twice and then set to all zeros afterward. Bank info, taxes, official (unclassified) work files, all of those have been on them in some variety at some points, and if they are ever disposed, I don't want any of that to be easily recoverable. I have never used it to destroy evidence when it was requested by investigators, as I am not a wealthy and powerful person, I would end up incriminating myself by doing so.

    1. Re:Never that specific program by orient · · Score: 1

      Setting the bits to zero does not guarantee anything. Booting from an OpenBSD install media and dd-ing from /dev/random seems more secure IMHO. Rinse and repeat for the more paranoid type.

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    2. Re:Never that specific program by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      /dev/zero is pretty fast, though dd from /dev/random (or /dev/urandom on Linux) is fine too. In this case, though, you are actively trying to get around an attack that is rare, expensive, and dubious on today's media- the tunneling electron microscope. Given that the tone of the article is shitting on Clinton for using a standard erasing tool (her other actions being the incriminatory ones, as well as her "what like with a cloth" comment), I think that "my data needs to be safe from tunneling electron microscopes" could and would be used against you in the court of opinion.

    3. Re:Never that specific program by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You didn't read his post all the way. He overwrote the drive twice with random data, and then used a blanking pass of zeroes.

      So /dev/urandom x2 + /dev/zero as the third run. After that you should only see 0 from the drive else it's a failed wipe, barring any unrecoverable sectors.

    4. Re:Never that specific program by phorm · · Score: 1

      Nothing is every guaranteed, but zeroing a drive is generally good enough for most consumer needs unless you've got some *really* determined people that are going to be after your data. On modern high-density spinning-rust drives, it's pretty hard to reliably recover contiguous bits of information from a zeroed drive without some special hardware (or hardware modifications).

      As we move to SSD's, however, I'm not sure even a random-write will work when the hardware itself may be marking off various parts of the disk as do-not-use over time. I would think that in that case, those bits aren't being overwritten during zeroing and might have useful little bits of data in some cases.

    5. Re:Never that specific program by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      1. Extract chips
      2. Microwave chips
      3. Nachos!

    6. Re:Never that specific program by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      But any time you stop using a hard drive you should clean it. I have probably 6 hard drives on a shelf in my house because I've replaced them with larger or faster drives. Each one has had the free space randomized twice and then set to all zeros afterward. Bank info, taxes, official (unclassified) work files, all of those have been on them in some variety at some points, and if they are ever disposed, I don't want any of that to be easily recoverable. I have never used it to destroy evidence when it was requested by investigators, as I am not a wealthy and powerful person, I would end up incriminating myself by doing so.

      If they're already zeroed, why not disassemble the hard drives and get the magnets out; those magnets are pretty powerful compared to your average fridge magnets. You can have some fun with those.

      Don't forget to take the platter out and smash it up whichever way you want. If the NSA can get the data off a drive that's being zeroed several times and platter smashed up, they deserve a trophy.

      Captcha: antics

    7. Re:Never that specific program by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It guarantees you won't rot in jail for not turning over your encryption password to that random data. Though I normally zero out all my free space every one in a while. That way if the HDD fails, you get less junk when you deep scan to recover data.

    8. Re:Never that specific program by ArtemaOne · · Score: 2

      Several people already pointed out your mistake, but randomized twice before a zero wipe shows that you aren't hiding encryption within the randomization. I'm not hiding bad things, and don't want to make it look like I am, so zeroing is legally safer than leaving it looking like an encryption technique.

    9. Re:Never that specific program by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 1

      Don't forget to take the platter out and smash it up whichever way you want. If the NSA can get the data off a drive that's being zeroed several times and platter smashed up, they deserve a trophy.

      Grind it into dust.

      Smashing the platter helps some. But taking it out of the drive just saves them a step.

      When a surface has been overwritten a couple times you're not going to have much luck trying to read it with the ordinary heads, even with tweaked signal and head-positioning electronics.

      But a scanning magnetic-force microscope makes the last several layers of writing visible to the naked eye (observing the false-color image on a monitor or printed page).

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    10. Re:Never that specific program by NotAPK · · Score: 1

      Wasted opportunity. Yes, wipe the drives as you do: then fill them with encrypted backups. At the very least those "dust collectors" may be useful in the future. Otherwise, smash the top of the drive with a hammer hard enough to damage the platter(s) and throw them in the bin.

    11. Re:Never that specific program by andersenep · · Score: 1

      But any time you stop using a hard drive you should clean it. I have probably 6 hard drives on a shelf in my house because I've replaced them with larger or faster drives. Each one has had the free space randomized twice and then set to all zeros afterward. Bank info, taxes, official (unclassified) work files, all of those have been on them in some variety at some points, and if they are ever disposed, I don't want any of that to be easily recoverable. I have never used it to destroy evidence when it was requested by investigators, as I am not a wealthy and powerful person, I would end up incriminating myself by doing so.

      This was my thought as well. I will say up front that I don't like Hillary and I think she's unquestionably guilty of mishandling classified information, but I think it's entirely within the realm of reason that her server was wiped as a matter of standard procedure vs something more nefarious. I wouldn't put it past her to have it wiped to prevent anything she doesn't want us to know, but I would hope that anyone involved in government IT wipes drive as a matter of SOP.

    12. Re:Never that specific program by guruevi · · Score: 1

      This isn't about proper disposal. The e-mails were destroyed after the server had gone offline and the inquiry had started. She was ORDERED to turn the drives over, instead she wiped the drives and then turned them over.

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    13. Re:Never that specific program by Oligonicella · · Score: 1

      Cut it into quarters with a friggin' oxy torch. Jeez, the lack of votech training nowadays.

    14. Re:Never that specific program by ArtemaOne · · Score: 1

      Actually it is about proper disposal. Read the last part of the original post up top. They asked if people use disk wiping for very standard and boring stuff. The answer I gave addressed that well. I then addressed that I have never done what she did.

    15. Re:Never that specific program by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 1

      Cut it into quarters with a friggin' oxy torch. Jeez, the lack of votech training nowadays.

      If you've got a torch, don't bother cutting it. Just heat it red hot.

      Once it's over the curie temperature of the recording medium, all the stored magnetic fields go away.

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    16. Re:Never that specific program by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 1

      Make that "yellow hot". Red might be a bit below the relevant material's curie point.

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    17. Re:Never that specific program by darkseid · · Score: 1

      Bullshit. The alleged ability to read data that's been erased multiple times (with slack space overwritten as well), is a blind for the black bag placement of keyboard readers and EMF bugs.

    18. Re:Never that specific program by AK+Marc · · Score: 1

      That's not in TFA. The Fox News article indicates she's obviously criminal because her team used BleachBit. There was no indication given in TFA as to the time of the wiping, or the content wiped or anything like that.

      The highly biased single-source news article doesn't even assert what you said. Did you hear that somewhere else, or is that your hallucination to help justify your irrational hatred of Hillary? If not Hillary, then who are you voting for in November?

    19. Re:Never that specific program by Bartles · · Score: 1

      Do you clean your hard drives after you receive a subpoena?

    20. Re:Never that specific program by ArtemaOne · · Score: 1

      That was clearly covered in my post.

    21. Re:Never that specific program by jez9999 · · Score: 1

      Quite hard to do with HDDs. I tried doing that once outdoors with a sledge hammer and I broke one of my patio tiles.

    22. Re:Never that specific program by NotAPK · · Score: 1

      He he, easily done I guess: poor patio!

      On a concrete floor I use a small or "normal" hammer and twist the head slightly on the swing. With the drive flat, and aiming right on top of the drive, halfway between the spindle and the edge, I find it easy enough to leave a huge dent, if I don't go right through the thin top plate!!!!

    23. Re:Never that specific program by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They didn't even bother with the server until 2 years after the original FIOA request. She would have happily gone about her way if someone hadn't told the plaintiffs that she used Clinton.com and not state.gov. Then when they started asking about that address, she had her folks print out a big pile of emails and delete everything she didn't want to share, wiping the server. Then when everyone hears about her non-compliant compliance, she gets the subpoena.

      Saying that this was not criminal is very Clinton-esque parsing. Sure, she didn't have the subpoena in hand. But she had know about the FOIA requests for years. For a federal prosecutor who wanted to get his man, that would be an easy felony conviction. But no prosecutor who values his career is going after someone of Clinton's stature on that kind of gambit. That's what "no reasonable prosecutor" means in this context.

    24. Re:Never that specific program by nctritech · · Score: 1

      That is bad information that's been circulating for decades, from back when that was not really bad information. It originates from a paper by Peter Gutmann during a time when hard drives didn't do the insane signal processing they do today. One zero pass on a drive is sufficient today. This was brought up on Slashdot ten years ago.

  6. Lock her up by NotInHere · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    and make bernie the candidate. He has better chances at winning against mr trump and he wants to do real change.

  7. I don't have any yoga emails .... by King_TJ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But I can say that something like this isn't too surprising, assuming you hired a lawyer with a brain in his/her head. They really like the idea of deleting evidence that could be used against you in a court of law, if they're hired to work FOR you.

    This is why businesses are being pushed to start purging all of their employee's email on a regular basis. They want to preserve that plausible deniability and ensure some former employee didn't say something in a company email you weren't aware of that winds up costing you $'s in a lawsuit.

    If this is an attempt to discuss if Clinton is guilty of anything or not with running her own private mail server? I think the answer to that is really pretty obvious.... Yes, of course she is. If any of us worked for an employer who provided us with a company email system for use with company-related things and we just decided to conduct business via our personal Gmail accounts, or some home-brew Linux server? How long do you think we'd stay employed there once that was realized? In a case like hers, it's only magnified as a problem because we KNOW she was allowed to handle classified content in her mail. So the hunt is on to prove she actually possessed some of that on this unofficial server. And if her lawyers did their jobs properly, there won't be much concrete proof that she did so, or at least that she ever accessed it once it was sent out. That doesn't make her less guilty though .... just smart enough to dodge some legal repercussions for her behavior.

    1. Re:I don't have any yoga emails .... by mrclevesque · · Score: 0

      " if Clinton is guilty of anything or not with running her own private mail server?"

      https://www.theguardian.com/us... -
      Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice used private accounts for classified emails

    2. Re:I don't have any yoga emails .... by JackieBrown · · Score: 1

      In a case like hers, it's only magnified as a problem because we KNOW she was allowed to handle classified content in her mail. So the hunt is on to prove she actually possessed some of that on this unofficial server.

      It was already determined that there was. What was lacking was provability of intent per the FBI.

      I tried using that excuse when I missed a speed limit sign. I was pretty shocked when intent didn't matter there.

    3. Re:I don't have any yoga emails .... by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 2

      And you know that accounts are not servers, right?

      For example I have my own e-mail *account* hosted on *google's* servers.

    4. Re:I don't have any yoga emails .... by CCW · · Score: 1

      >>it's only magnified as a problem because we KNOW she was allowed to handle classified content in her mail.

      This is incorrect. Neither Clinton nor anybody else in the department was allowed to handle classified content in unsecured email. Every case of classified information leaking into email on an unsecured network is a violation, @state.gov email addresses are not for classified material either. That material is sequestered on a completely separate network. Anybody who sent Clinton classified email committed the same infraction she did, and that is still true if she was using hrclinton@state.gov instead of a private address. The underlying issue is that the state department is careless with classified information.

      This (obviously) does NOT include retroactively classified material, since that was unclassified when sent by definition.

      While I think using a private server was stupid and Clinton should fire the people who recommended it and publicly apologize to both the american people and the staffers who were told to stop telling her it was a bad idea, Gowdy's inference that competently wiping a computer implies wrongdoing is just incorrect and dangerous and seems unconstitutional.

    5. Re:I don't have any yoga emails .... by harperska · · Score: 1

      There is a difference in how the laws are written. The speed limit law simply says you can't go over the posted speed. Whether you intended to or not is beside the point. The espionage act, on the other hand, specifically says in the text of the law that you may not intentionally disseminate classified information to anybody not cleared to see it.

      FYI, the other half of the relevant law states that you can't negligibly allow classified information to fall into the wrong hands. But the FBI's investigation found no evidence that anybody nefarious did get a hold of classified emails stored on the server, and she did not put classified emails on the server with the intent to disseminate them to anybody who shouldn't see them. Therefore, neither half of the relevant law was broken.

      That being said, if it does come to light that somebody did hack her private server and steal classified emails, then it would be a whole different story. But as it is, with the information we know, simply the act of having emails on a private server did not in of itself break the law.

    6. Re:I don't have any yoga emails .... by techno-vampire · · Score: 2

      Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice used private accounts for classified emails

      At this point, what difference does it make?

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    7. Re:I don't have any yoga emails .... by c · · Score: 1

      They want to preserve that plausible deniability and ensure some former employee didn't say something in a company email you weren't aware of that winds up costing you $'s in a lawsuit.

      I think that in many cases, it's just as much about saving money in lawsuits by not having to pay lawyers to plow through years and years of "hey, lunch at Vinnie's, you in?" e-mails.

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    8. Re:I don't have any yoga emails .... by quantaman · · Score: 1

      Yes, of course she is. If any of us worked for an employer who provided us with a company email system for use with company-related things and we just decided to conduct business via our personal Gmail accounts, or some home-brew Linux server? How long do you think we'd stay employed there once that was realized?

      If that employee is a high level manager? Probably indefinitely.

      In a case like hers, it's only magnified as a problem because we KNOW she was allowed to handle classified content in her mail. So the hunt is on to prove she actually possessed some of that on this unofficial server.

      No it isn't, they've had those emails all along.

      And if her lawyers did their jobs properly, there won't be much concrete proof that she did so, or at least that she ever accessed it once it was sent out. That doesn't make her less guilty though .... just smart enough to dodge some legal repercussions for her behavior.

      Irrelevant. The question is whether she was intentionally disseminating classified emails, and even then it needs to be more than a handful or classified emails among thousands if they're actually going to pursue charges, it just doesn't happen.

      Feel free to criticize her for being careless, she was. And the fact that no one realized or felt comfortable saying that the situation was amiss is pretty disturbing.

      But criminal charges and jail time? The idea is, and always has been, absurd.

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    9. Re:I don't have any yoga emails .... by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 1

      Your mention of corporate policies for mail deletion is key here. If emails were deleted in a secure wipe manner as part of a routine schedule for that sort of thing, we have to assume no foul play. But if it was a one-off thing, and especially if it was after they knew there was an investigation, it's very suspicious.

    10. Re:I don't have any yoga emails .... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They should ALL go to jail

    11. Re:I don't have any yoga emails .... by bongey · · Score: 1

      They didn't delete ALL their personal emails.

    12. Re:I don't have any yoga emails .... by techno-vampire · · Score: 1

      Actually, all three should go to prison. Jail is where you go when you're awaiting trial, prison is where you serve your sentence.

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    13. Re:I don't have any yoga emails .... by AK+Marc · · Score: 1

      So committing a felony is fine, so long as you don't properly dispose of the improperly handled classified materials? Or is it that it's only allowed if it's a Republican? As bad as she is, who are you voting for in November?

    14. Re:I don't have any yoga emails .... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The text is irrelevant as the Stare Decisis has rewritten key portions. Please stop appealing to the incorrect reasoning. At least google it before trying to act as a shitty lawyer.

    15. Re:I don't have any yoga emails .... by Cytotoxic · · Score: 1

      This is why businesses are being pushed to start purging all of their employee's email on a regular basis. They want to preserve that plausible deniability and ensure some former employee didn't say something in a company email you weren't aware of that winds up costing you $'s in a lawsuit.

      Any company with half a brain will now have in place a document retention policy that destroys most communications within a year or two. But then you have to have an archiving system that allows the team of lawyers you have to go in and flag certain things for preservation, pursuant to pending or active litigation.

      The whole thing is a mess, really, with class action trolls combing through decades of internal documents looking for any embarrassing email that they can hold up in a tobacco-industry like moment to earn themselves billions. All it takes is one employee saying something stupid... maybe even at odds with corporate policy.

      So if you are a corporate type who isn't in IT and for some weird reason you read slashdot, if you don't have competent IT leadership, go out and hire it today. It isn't just about making sure the email server has good uptime anymore. IT can be the key to good corporate governance for a hundred reasons.

    16. Re:I don't have any yoga emails .... by mrclevesque · · Score: 1

      I know, but but how is that relevant?

  8. Free space wiping controversial? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the server used an SSD, the trim or SSD internal cleanup routines would have scrubbed the empty blocks too. Would that also be news?

    This is fantastically low quality shit for a Slashdot post. Really. It's an SC Republican talking to Fox news about Hillary, hoping to stir up a Benghazi 2.0.

    This isn't tech news. It's to bait.

    1. Re:Free space wiping controversial? by OhPlz · · Score: 3, Insightful

      They intentionally destroyed data while an investigation was underway. If it was a Republican that got caught doing it, you'd probably go nuts about it. As it is, it's disgraceful for Slashdot to post this in the late afternoon on a Friday when people are going to be less likely to see it.

    2. Re:Free space wiping controversial? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If the server used an SSD, the trim or SSD internal cleanup routines would have scrubbed the empty blocks too.

      This is incorrect. Wear leveling would ensure that eventually that part of memory (pedantry: not blocks, there is no disk to logically cut up) would be reused, but SSDs do not scrub ever as that would add unnecessary wear and decrease the number of usable read/write cycles.

      Disappointing that someone with a real account didn't say this before misinformation earned +4.

    3. Re:Free space wiping controversial? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Correct that record!

      5 cents have been credited to your account.

    4. Re:Free space wiping controversial? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They intentionally destroyed data while an investigation was underway. If it was a Republican that got caught doing it, you'd probably go nuts about it.

      Unless they provided a copy of the data to the FBI first, then destroyed their own copies, or the data that was destroyed wasn't part of the investigation, or any number of things that may very well turn out to be true. Sure, I'm a bit jaded because so far all of these e-mail revelations have turned out to be big yawns once all the facts came out. I suppose it could be different this time. But I guess I'm just willing to wait for more information.

    5. Re:Free space wiping controversial? by OhPlz · · Score: 2

      Everything on that server is part of the investigation. She chose to have her own server and she chose to mix personal emails in with government emails. She shouldn't be the one to decide what the investigators get to see. For all we know, she didn't have any personal email on there and she's been having her people wipe sensitive info that would impact her electability or land her in prison.

    6. Re:Free space wiping controversial? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You seem very sure of yourself. I'll still wait.

      Also, is that crickets I hear on the possibility that the deleted data had already been given to the FBI? There are so many ways this could be just another big bag of Benghazi, with nothing to see below the headlines. That's just the ones I thought of in the first few minutes.

    7. Re:Free space wiping controversial? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We all know she deleted the Harambe evidence. It's all going to come out eventually.

    8. Re:Free space wiping controversial? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The SSD controller is far more likely to make secure-wiping ineffective due to wear-leveling. SSDs are notorious for making secure-wiping pretty much impossible.

      The o my way to truly secure things is to encrypt the whole disk and then lose the keys.

    9. Re:Free space wiping controversial? by kqs · · Score: 1

      I haven't seen any evidence that the wiping was done during the email investigation; do you have a citation that says otherwise?

      And Slashdot posted this a bit after it hit the mainstream news. The fact that you think that the timing was a plot by Slashdot implies that you are less interested in facts than in political conspiracy theories. When you look around and complain about all of the political mudslinging, now you can think "hey, I'm causing all that! Cool!"

    10. Re:Free space wiping controversial? by AthanasiusKircher · · Score: 2

      I haven't seen any evidence that the wiping was done during the email investigation; do you have a citation that says otherwise?

      It wasn't done during the FBI investigation, but it seems to have been done after the State Department requested her emails pursuant to an investigation by the House about Benghazi.

      According to Clinton's lawyer, the emails must have been deleted sometime between December 5, 2014 and March 27, 2015. That article is from last year, so perhaps they've managed to narrow the window further.

      As discussed in the New York Times timeline on the investigation, the select committee in the House to investigate Benghazi was formed in May 2014 and began negotiating with Clinton in July 2014 to obtain all of her emails. The State Department turned over "a handful of emails from Mrs. Clinton, all from her private account" in August 2014, and the House committee requested the remainder of the emails. As noted in the Politifact story above, Clinton's lawyer said the "review" of Clinton's emails to separate personal correspondence, etc. happened in fall of 2014. Clinton apparently finally turned over (what she claimed to be) the remainder to the State Department in December (almost two years after leaving office), after which she deleted the rest. On March 10, 2015, the New York Times reported that Clinton had deleted 32,000 emails. After finding classified information, the FBI began its investigation in July 2015.

      So, yes, the emails were deleted before the FBI investigation began. But they were deleted after repeated requests to turn over all her correspondence by the House committee.

      Personally, I have my doubts that there was some sort of "evil memo" smoking gun to be found in this mass of stuff, but the fact is that the server was wiped AFTER an investigation (at that time limited to Benghazi) and official government request for all her email happened. It at least has to go in the "somewhat shady" category that Clinton only gave paper copies of emails and wiped the server clean at this point. (Why they were delivered on 55,000 pages of paper is still unclear, but it would have potentially erased a lot of metadata -- the redigitized email I've seen had no detailed headers. Oh, and the redigitization process required more than 2400 man-hours of work.)

      It seems more likely (to me) that if there were anything "shady" going it, it was probably to delete personal correspondence -- rather than State Department business -- that would make her look really bad if it ever got out. But I guess we'll never know.

    11. Re:Free space wiping controversial? by im_thatoneguy · · Score: 1

      If it was a Republican that got caught doing it, you'd probably go nuts about it.

      You mean like when Bush's Whitehouse deleted 22 million emails? Nobody actually gives a shot about Hillary's emails. But the GOP knows that people are so tech illiterate that they can frame it as "Hillary funneled all of our state secrets to Benghazi Terrorists to help them kill our diplomat!"

    12. Re:Free space wiping controversial? by AK+Marc · · Score: 1

      TFA is Fox News quoting a Hillary hater saying that "wiping drives is proof of guilt". That's all the story is. There's nothing in the story even implying that the wiping happened after the investigation was underway. So where are you getting your facts from? Making them up and hoping nobody checks?

    13. Re:Free space wiping controversial? by AK+Marc · · Score: 1

      Let's say she's guilty of everything she's been accused of (I think she assassinated Gandhi and JFK/RFK as well), what would it be if the timeline went as follows:

      She's investigated for Benghazi.
      During that investigation, someone realizes there's classified material on the "private" email server.
      The legal, prudent, and best practice thing to do when such an error is noticed, is to wipe the offending material. So, while being investigated for Benghazi, she wipes unrelated emails.

      So, between killing Michael Jackson and founding ISIS, she properly disposes of mishandled classified material. And she's faulted for the one time she does properly handle it?

      The misogynist Republican stance is showing. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. They hate her, and anything she did is a crime. Anything she didn't do is criminally negligent for not acting. She's been under investigation constantly for 20 years, not because she'd done bad things for which she's hated, but she's accused of bad things because she's hated. It seems so obviously irrational to everyone but the Hillary haters, who hated her before she did anything on their list of reasons they hate her.

    14. Re:Free space wiping controversial? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I regularly run a small program that fills up all free space in Windows with a file containing just zero’s, but with the goal of better compressing backup images of the partition, not for hiding anything.

    15. Re:Free space wiping controversial? by SeattleLawGuy · · Score: 1

      They intentionally destroyed data while an investigation was underway. If it was a Republican that got caught doing it, you'd probably go nuts about it. As it is, it's disgraceful for Slashdot to post this in the late afternoon on a Friday when people are going to be less likely to see it.

      Slashdot didn't pick the timing of when Fox News released it. Although it is kind of interesting that it was released on a day to minimize its political impact.

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    16. Re:Free space wiping controversial? by Bert64 · · Score: 1

      The legal, prudent, and best practice thing to do when such an error is noticed is to seize the server holding the classified material and place it into evidence until a thorough investigation can be performed.

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    17. Re:Free space wiping controversial? by AK+Marc · · Score: 1

      There was no investigation at the time (a Benghazi inquiry that wasn't a legal investigation, and wasn't concerned with the emails at the time), and turning over your classified material to the FBI for an investigation into your self is not only stupid, but illegal. It's an illegal mis-handling of classified material. Leaks should not be handled by leaking the material to others, even law enforcement. They are to be handled by destroying the offending materials, so as to eliminate/minimize the leak.

      Her actions, as described in TFA were the proper course. But she's vilified for them. The whole thing is illogical.

    18. Re:Free space wiping controversial? by Bartles · · Score: 1

      Actually she wiped emails pursuant to the Benghazi investigation. Some of the 15,000 emails that the FBI was able to recover relate to Benghazi. They will be released in the next month due to court order if the State Department fails to stonewall.

    19. Re:Free space wiping controversial? by Bartles · · Score: 1

      The hell it wasn't. A congressional investigation most certainly is a legal investigation.

    20. Re:Free space wiping controversial? by AK+Marc · · Score: 1

      It's not an investigation by a law enforcement organization, they are called "hearings" not investigation.. And it wasn't interested in unrelated emails. It was Benghazi-only, at the time.

    21. Re: Free space wiping controversial? by Bartles · · Score: 1

      Sec Clintons personal server was discovered as a result of the Benghazi hearings. There are nervous lawsuits going on as a result.

    22. Re: Free space wiping controversial? by AK+Marc · · Score: 1

      Yes. In the defense of a non-crime at a non-investigation, if she noticed improper emails stored on her server, she's essenially required by law to wipe them securely.

      Yet, when she does follow the law, it's seen as proof she planned to break it all the time.

      This shows an improper bias in the investigation (and trial by public), not proof of intent.

      So, if she's so bad, who are you voting for in November?

    23. Re:Free space wiping controversial? by Bert64 · · Score: 1

      Handing the classified data to an organization cleared to handle such data so they can investigate a crime is not illegal, destroying evidence is highly illegal.

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    24. Re: Free space wiping controversial? by Bert64 · · Score: 1

      I'm not voting, i'm not eligible to vote in american elections.
      If i was, i wouldn't be voting *for* anyone, rather i would be voting against whoever i considered the worst of the two.

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    25. Re:Free space wiping controversial? by AK+Marc · · Score: 1
      Someone isn't "cleared" to handle all classified material, once they are cleared to handle any material at that level.

      destroying evidence is highly illegal.

      No, it is not. A murder who washes his hands after the crime isn't prosecuted for destroying evidence. Destroying evidence after being ordered to turn it over is obviously clearly illegal. But that's been proven to not be the case here. Destroying all backups at 7 years old (an American standard for destroying old data) absolves you 100% if someone at 7 years and one day, sues you about something you just destroyed. So destroying the evidence would be 100% legal in that case. Arguably even if you knew the lawsuit was coming.

    26. Re: Free space wiping controversial? by AK+Marc · · Score: 1

      That's not how ballots work. There is no "anyone but" box. And if you are not an American, why are you so keen on American elections? A foreigner living in the US? Or a disinterested observer who thinks it would be hilarious if Trump were elected, so you'll do what little you can to get that result?

    27. Re: Free space wiping controversial? by Bert64 · · Score: 1

      And that indeed is the problem...
      I dislike both candidates, and if i was american i wouldn't want to vote for either, but there isn't an "anyone but" box as you pointed out so you have to choose the least intolerable of the two in the hope that the other won't get elected.

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    28. Re: Free space wiping controversial? by AK+Marc · · Score: 1

      The problem is that people that would grudgingly vote for Kang over Kodos, end up joining the campaign for Kang, to ensure the defeat of Kodos, despite hating both candidates. If those with no great love for their candidate would just shut up and get out of the way, we'd not end up in the situation we are in, with the two most hated candidates in US history up against each other.

  9. I hope bleachbit uses "like with a cloth" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The level of wiping was tremendous, but the crazy part is her sniffing dismissal of it. "What, like with a cloth"? The funny part is how much was recovered from third parties, and how it has made literally everything she said about emails into a lie.

  10. Dad Joke incoming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Really, I thought it was with a cloth?

  11. Should be ashamed to imply this is wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Implying that using wiping software is automatically suspicious is shameful.

    This should be accepted as common practice which implies nothing suspicious. If you don't want certain data anymore, whether it's inconsequential or not, it SHOULD be wiped-out. If I want the data deleted, then I want to to be gone, whether it's sensitive financial data or a 19-byte file named phpinfo.php.

    There's plenty of other facets of the story to latch-onto, whether legitimate or overblown. But this one is not valid.

    This is akin to a prosecutor making the argument that you are guilty of something just because "history | grep shred" returns more than a single result. Bullshit.

    1. Re:Should be ashamed to imply this is wrong by JackieBrown · · Score: 1

      Then we might as well as get rid of the freedom of information act since it's legitimate to wipe out government records as long as someone doesn't want it.

    2. Re:Should be ashamed to imply this is wrong by sexconker · · Score: 1

      She wiped it after they began investigating her. She was destroying evidence.

    3. Re:Should be ashamed to imply this is wrong by fustakrakich · · Score: 1

      Smart move. Lighter sentence.

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    4. Re:Should be ashamed to imply this is wrong by AK+Marc · · Score: 1

      She wiped unrelated emails after an investigation into Benghazi. If they were, as asserted, classified material improperly held on insecure servers, it would be her duty to wipe them. Why do you hate Hillary when she does what's legally required? Oh, you'd hate her if she gave you $20 ("Not $50? You bitch.").

    5. Re:Should be ashamed to imply this is wrong by sexconker · · Score: 1

      You're a dumbass. She destroyed evidence related to an active investigation. That's certainly not her duty.

    6. Re:Should be ashamed to imply this is wrong by AK+Marc · · Score: 1

      Nope. There was no active investigation into her emails at the time. Just Benghazi, and it wasn't an investigation, because it was "just" a congressional hearing, not an investigation by a law enforcement organization.

    7. Re:Should be ashamed to imply this is wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      She did, however, destroy the emails after FOIA requests had been made to release them, which she did so she wouldn't have to turn the emails over.

      And yes, obviously classified material is not going to be released as part of a FOIA request, but it's not up to her to police that.

    8. Re:Should be ashamed to imply this is wrong by AK+Marc · · Score: 1

      it's not up to her to police [classified materials].

      Isn't that the point? It's up to her to police the classified materials? She didn't so she should be in jail. Oh wait, we found one point where she might have. Proof she needs more jail.

      Every argument I see on this topic is irrational and contradictory. It all looks to be simple hate of Hillary, steered towards whatever the talk show told the Hillary haters to target.

      All of you should just sign your posts "Heil Trump." After all, in a two party system, that's your effect, intended or not.

  12. She's just following protocol by daveywest · · Score: 1

    It's nice to see our next President turning over a new leaf and following DOD standards for data destruction.

    1. Re:She's just following protocol by bongey · · Score: 2

      Except she didn't. DoD standards require wiping and disk destruction. Even Google fucking wipes and shreds their disks. http://www.doncio.navy.mil/Con... http://www.networkworld.com/ar...

    2. Re:She's just following protocol by nctritech · · Score: 1

      An unfortunate waste of a bunch of perfectly good disks from which the old data is irretrievable after a simple zero fill.

  13. It shows intent to cover up a crime by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    No wonder her IT guy ran to the FBI for immunity the moment he could.

  14. Not responsible - it's a crime. by zerofoo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hillary Clinton co-mingled personal and official government communications on her private email server. All of those communications are subject to the Federal Records Act and the Freedom of Information Act.

    Her personal emails ceased to be personal when she co-mingled them with official government communications. HRC and her lawyers were not authorized to decide what is relevant to FRA and FOIA and what is not.

    HRC and her lawyers deleted 30,000 or so emails that are not recoverable - therefore she is in violation of both the FRA and FOIA.

    HRC should be, at the very least, in front of a jury to answer for her actions.

    1. Re:Not responsible - it's a crime. by david_thornley · · Score: 0

      Why would her personal email cease to be personal? It wasn't on an official government server, after all, and she was only required to turn over the official stuff. Presumably, personal email on an official server would be retained, but that wasn't the case here. She did nothing Powell didn't do. I think you're making up that thing about violation of the law, probably from wishful thinking.

      And, before Clinton faces trial for this, we really need to try a bunch of Bush administration people. They destroyed far more emails than Clinton did. Somehow, this doesn't seem to be talked about.

      --
      "When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
    2. Re:Not responsible - it's a crime. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I wasn't aware that a "Bush administration" was running for president. We also aren't talking about the dozens of people associated with the Clintons that have been suicided. The media has deemed that irrelevant as well.

    3. Re:Not responsible - it's a crime. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Because she is in violation of the FOIA and can't provide any evidence whatsoever that the emails she deleted were personal. There is no innocent until proven guilty here, in this case she is ALREADY in violation of the FOIA, so the right thing to do is turn ALL emails to a neutral third party to filter out what is personal and what is not.

      Right now there is no way to guarantee that the deleted emails were exclusively personal except for her word. And we all know the value of a politician's word.

    4. Re:Not responsible - it's a crime. by Bartles · · Score: 1

      Are you claiming then, that she only deleted personal emails?

    5. Re:Not responsible - it's a crime. by david_thornley · · Score: 1

      How is she in violation of the FOIA? What official information was she asked for that she failed to provide without a valid reason not to? I read the Wikipedia article, and saw no signs that (a) it applied to personal email not on a government server, or (b) that it assumed guilty until proven innocent.

      I don't see how she can be guilty of FOIA violation for information not under the control of the Federal Government. She could be guilty of other things (we can probably agree on bad judgment, although that isn't illegal), but until someone can come up with actual evidence of something worth prosecuting she's not going to be prosecuted.

      --
      "When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
    6. Re:Not responsible - it's a crime. by david_thornley · · Score: 1

      I'm not claiming anything. I've gotten real tired of all the Clinton hate, so I'm just challenging anti-Clinton claims that I don't see as verified (for example, using her own not-well-secured email server for official business).

      --
      "When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
    7. Re: Not responsible - it's a crime. by Bartles · · Score: 1

      You don't think it's been verified that she used her personal non-secure server for official business?

    8. Re: Not responsible - it's a crime. by david_thornley · · Score: 1

      My confusing syntax, I see. We all know she used her personal server, which was not managed well for security, for official business. That's verified. Whether she deleted official emails is, as far as I've seen, not verified.

      --
      "When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
    9. Re: Not responsible - it's a crime. by Bartles · · Score: 1

      James comey did a pretty good job verifying it when he testified in Congress. Do you need video?

  15. Storm in a teacup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The media needs to get over it.

    People store data in dumb places all the time, they ignore company policies they specifically agree to once a year. Why? Because its convenient, and at the time no thought is given to its potential implications so its ok.

    Perhaps if the govt had of offered reasonable IT services, users wouldnt have to operate their own email servers to get their jobs done?

    1. Re:Storm in a teacup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I call BS.

      She did it to hid here Clinton foundation activities and avoid FOIA.

      And she jeopardized secret, top secret and SCI information in the process.

      Anyone else would lose their clearance and be prosecuted.

  16. Any Evidence that this story is correct? by Art+Challenor · · Score: 1

    If we have a story about a politician talking reasonably correctly about a technical topic, I have to question the source. I'm fairly sure that Trey Gowdy is not a BleachBit contributor. Who told him all this information and where's the supporting evidence?

    1. Re:Any Evidence that this story is correct? by arbiter1 · · Score: 1

      Here is what we know for a fact, 30k emails WERE deleted after the subpoena, If they used such a program to make sure they never could be recovered well that does show sign of something to hide cause in case like this if they weren't anything bad then let investigators see them to prove you didn't have anything to hide. You destroy them if they are very damning and could put you in prison for a LONG time. Conspiracy theory that all you want but its fact and truth of what person will do, like Tom Brady did with his cell phone he had destroyed AFTER he knew NFL wanted it.

    2. Re:Any Evidence that this story is correct? by StevenMaurer · · Score: 1

      Here is what we know for a fact, 30k emails WERE deleted after the subpoena.

      Again (and I have to repeat myself because this keeps coming up), this is a 100% FALSE assertion.The emails were deleted in December. Gowdy issued the subpoena (and, mind you, only for Benghazi related subjects) in March.

      "In fact, Trey Gowdy did not issue a subpoena until March, months after she she'd done that review. Further, the subpoena was specifically asking for documents pertaining to Libya and the attacks on our facility in Benghazi, documents which, along with tens of thousands of others, she had already given to the Department of State," Merrill said.

      Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the Benghazi panel, called Gowdy's hit Wednesday a "stunt."

      "It appears clear that Secretary Clinton was answering a question about whether she deleted emails 'while facing a subpoena,'" Cummings said in a statement Wednesday.

    3. Re:Any Evidence that this story is correct? by bongey · · Score: 1

      Except Gowdy, the FOIA requests and the FOIA lawsuit(s) were BEFORE they were deleted. Gowdy only followed up with a subpoena after the Clinton team didn't hand over anything. Clinton WILLFULLY broke the FOIA laws, she was talking back in 2009 ish about FOIA laws but the Clinton team just ignored it. Clinton only handed over emails nearly 2 YEARS after a FOIA request. She left office Feb 2013, they deleted them Dec 2014. Everyone learned of the email issue after the original FOIA request said there were NO Clinton emails.

  17. You think it matters? by p51d007 · · Score: 0, Troll

    She & Bill have been protected, since they were in Arkansas. Look how many people connected to them have met with "accidents". Count is up around 100 by now. This election is a farce. She was already picked. Trump got into the election to steal the spotlight from any other Republican candidate. He is called to a meeting with Bill before he even considered running, then all of a sudden runs for president. The Clinton's and Trump's have been friends for DECADES. Wouldn't surprise me if he drops out at the last minute. About the only thing that will stop Hillary from becoming the president, is if she has a major stroke, or drops dead before being nominated, sadly. We the people are just pawns in this nation anymore. We are too preoccupied with Pokemon, "reality" tv, hollywood fanism than what is going on. Plus, our education system in the USA is to politically correct and has a couple generations of SHEEP, that believe all that is bad with this nation is capitalism, white privilege etc, and have been lead on a path to socialism by the (un)education system, who is nothing more than a bunch of grown up 60's radicals.

    1. Re:You think it matters? by david_thornley · · Score: 1

      You do realize that the Clintons have interacted with a very large number of people, so being connected to a good number of people who have died isn't unusual. The reason why she and Bill have dodged what looks like scandals is that the scandals were mostly made up. (Besides, if she can disappear people without any traceable connection, we want her on our side, don't we?) The election is real. Sanders came in a pretty close second, and the Republicans didn't have to nominate Trump. Since Sanders didn't win, and the Republicans couldn't find a real candidate, Clinton will be elected.

      --
      "When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
    2. Re:You think it matters? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      From a certain point of view, Republicans didn't nominate Trump. The states where he did the best were open primary states. In other words.. Crossover Democrats nominated Trump!

      Trump will say that it's because he has such wide appeal that Democrats are jumping to his cause, but there is another, more plausible explanation - the cross-over Democrats thought he'd be the easiest to beat, and maybe didn't care which of the Democrat candidates was chosen.

  18. And the winner of Election 2016 is... by redshirt · · Score: 1

    BleachBit.

    1. Re:And the winner of Election 2016 is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I use bleachbit.
      It comes with my favorite distro MX-15.

      I don't use the shred options, just to delete temporary files and logs etc.

      Like ccleaner on Windows, recovering space and purging junk.

      Never had any problem with incorrect deletions.

  19. Just like a woman ... by daveywest · · Score: 2

    ... cleaning up after themselves. If it had been a man, he'd have just fsk'd the drive and used it for a minecraft server.

  20. Admin Wipes Drives on Decommissioned Server by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That Might be News to a Senator. But why is it News on Slashdot?
    Her Admin did exactly what he was supposed to do.

    Option two would be to Hit it with a hammer.
    This was the option the Bush white house chose.

    That should be the new line.
    Did you wipe the old drives?
    Yup, Event God can't get the Data.Good Job.

    1. Re:Admin Wipes Drives on Decommissioned Server by arbiter1 · · Score: 2

      Um WRONG, her lawyers and her went through said emails then deleted them AFTER they subpoena for them it wasn't before the fact. Deleteing them before FBI wanted them would be diff but after they asked for them is destruction of evidence.

    2. Re:Admin Wipes Drives on Decommissioned Server by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You have Proof of this Obvious crime?
      That is what Ollie Norths Secretary went to jail for.

      The Emails were review and turned over to the government went she left Office.
      That was the law at the time.

      The exact same procedure the Bush administration use we his administration left office.

    3. Re:Admin Wipes Drives on Decommissioned Server by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      She did not turn them over when she left office. They had to come looking for them when Judicial Watch got suspicious when FOIA requests returned no emails. That is probably when she started deleting, and when finished, turned what was left over to State. A few months later, FBI started an investigation after a referral from somebody whose job it is to do oversight on national secrets.

    4. Re:Admin Wipes Drives on Decommissioned Server by StevenMaurer · · Score: 1

      Um WRONG, her lawyers and her went through said emails then deleted them AFTER they subpoena for them it wasn't before the fact.

      Um, YOU are the one who is WRONG. The subpoena was issued in March. They were deleted in thew previous December.

      I don't want to spam slashdot with a bunch of redundant posts, but this is just flat out factually incorrect. You can see my other posts where I link to sources.

  21. I use something regularly; am *I* a criminal? by kheldan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I regularly use something to overwrite/erase files, and overwrite/erase free space on hard drives of machines I use; does that automatically make ME a criminal?

    DISCLAIMER: I am NOT voting for Clinton.. I am also NOT voting for Trump.. but I AM VOTING. WHO I am voting for is nobody's damn business, so DON'T EVEN GO THERE, it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SUBJECT.

    Now, then.. just because she used BleachBit doesn't mean she is or is NOT a criminal or committed a criminal act. If I were running an email server for my personal use I'd probably overwrite/delete on it occasionally, too.

    --
    Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
    1. Re:I use something regularly; am *I* a criminal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Unlike Clinton, you are not subject to Freedom of Information laws or the Federal Records Act. Do whatever you want with your stuff, who cares. However, in Clinton's case, there may have been information that the electorate (or auditors) is privy to that has been destroyed. There may not have been. It is impossible to tell, and therein lies the problem.

    2. Re:I use something regularly; am *I* a criminal? by OhPlz · · Score: 1

      The most likely reason for her to use a private email server is to hide her email from investigators and/or FOIA requests. The government started investigating and what happened? Her team started "going through" her email and destroying whatever they decided they wanted to destroy. She claims they were personal emails, but we'll never know. To erase the data with a secure erase program is good technique, but doing that while the authorities are requesting access to the data is pretty much destruction of evidence, which itself is a crime. If the utility was run automatically once a week and that's how the data was erased, then fine. But if they ran this intentionally because they wanted to make sure there was no chance for the authorities to recover the data, that's something else entirely. And even so, that's just more reason why private mail servers should not be used for government business. We need to be able to hold our officials accountable, and that means they don't get the ability to purge potential evidence whenever they feel like it.

    3. Re:I use something regularly; am *I* a criminal? by KingBozo · · Score: 1

      You are correct to a point. Cleaning up is a good thing to do before decommissioning a server, but doing that after a subpoena for those emails is called destruction of evidence.

    4. Re:I use something regularly; am *I* a criminal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Shut up, Republican faggot.

    5. Re:I use something regularly; am *I* a criminal? by StevenMaurer · · Score: 1

      You are correct to a point. Cleaning up is a good thing to do before decommissioning a server, but doing that after a subpoena for those emails is called destruction of evidence.

      And Hillary Clinton didn't do this, although it's now becoming very apparent that people who dislike her incorrectly imagine that she did,

  22. The defendant is accused of not being an idiot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Proper data hygiene isn't reserved just for things that you "don't want the world to see".

  23. Decommissioning servers by freedom_surfer · · Score: 1, Insightful

    At my previous employer, it was standard practice to use shred whenever we decommissioned our Linux servers. We didn't see what was running on them first, or if it was worth shredding, you just did it. What a ridiculous argument.

    Next up, anyone who has a paper shredder at home is up to no good! What are all you people hiding!

    1. Re:Decommissioning servers by sexconker · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Did you run shred on a server after the FBI said it wanted the data on it?

    2. Re:Decommissioning servers by dissy · · Score: 1

      I still disagree with you.

      When I decommission a hard drive, best practices state you wipe the entire hard drive.

      You don't go and delete specific files like exchanges .EDS data store files and your web browser cache only.

      In fact the way BleachBit deletes data, even though recovery of emails on these drives would be impossible, the windows SAM file remains undeleted and in perfect operating condition along with the entire OS.

      I could easily extract password hashes from those untouched files and brute force them.
      There could be many other files left littered around the HD that would provide or point to other authentication credentials, not to mention all the saved passwords in the windows password store and all the applications that do it on their own.

      No, wiping the entire hard drive with something like DBAN is the only way to properly decommission a hard drive if you are concerned it may leave your possession (selling or disposal doesn't matter)

      BleachBit is absolutely nothing like a paper shredder. It is more like using a black marker to redact lines printed on those papers and then leaving the entire stack of paper out so anyone can still read the rest and see there is text redacted.

      Shredding the whole paper would plausibly be proper disposal. Marking out lines while keeping the paper is not.

    3. Re:Decommissioning servers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Did you run shred on a server after the FBI said it wanted the data on it?

      After you gave it to them, I don't see why not. Server's still gotta be decommissioned.

      Just because you already handed the data over to the FBI doesn't mean you want someone pulling your drives out of the landfill and reading them.

    4. Re:Decommissioning servers by guruevi · · Score: 1

      That is not how FBI investigations work. You can't just turn over the data, there is a chain of evidence.

      --
      Custom electronics and digital signage for your business: www.evcircuits.com
    5. Re:Decommissioning servers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Was your employer subject to Freedom of Information Act?

    6. Re:Decommissioning servers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Did you run shred on a server after the FBI said it wanted the data on it?

      I would.

    7. Re:Decommissioning servers by Swave+An+deBwoner · · Score: 1

      I think that dd is sufficient for most cases.

    8. Re:Decommissioning servers by StevenMaurer · · Score: 1

      Did you run shred on a server after the FBI said it wanted the data on it?

      HILLARY CLINTON AND HER TEAM DID NOT DO THIS.

      My god, this is like the fifth person to falsely claim that she did in this discussion. Don't you people read jack shit before you post? Or it is all "Beitbart" and the "Weekly World News", Hillary Clinton with space alien? You seriously imagine that the GOP in Congress wouldn't be trying to find her in Contempt if she'd done anything like this? That the FBI wouldn't have done a thing?!?

      http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/08/politics/hillary-clinton-benghazi-subpoena-gowdy/

      "In fact, Trey Gowdy did not issue a subpoena until March, months after she she'd done that review. Further, the subpoena was specifically asking for documents pertaining to Libya and the attacks on our facility in Benghazi, documents which, along with tens of thousands of others, she had already given to the Department of State," Merrill said.

      Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the Benghazi panel, called Gowdy's hit Wednesday a "stunt."

      "It appears clear that Secretary Clinton was answering a question about whether she deleted emails 'while facing a subpoena,'" Cummings said in a statement Wednesday.

      God DAMN do I want silly season to be over, where people will go back to merely lying about their high scores on games, rather than crap like this

    9. Re:Decommissioning servers by sexconker · · Score: 1

      Feds wanted the emails.
      Hillary and her goons went through them to filter out "personal" emails despite the clear conflict of interest, and handed over a bunch of innocuous emails while claiming "They weren't classified.".

      Hillary and her goons wiped the server, like with a cloth, destroying all other evidence (or so they hoped).
      Many of the innocuous emails that were handed over were determined to be classified.
      The claim then became "They weren't classified at the time.".

      We then learned she had staff fax, scan, etc. emails without the classified header.
      We then found out about more emails from various hacks and 3rd parties (typically emails end up on more than one server) that were indeed classified at the time.
      We then learned that if this were anyone else, they'd be prosecuted, but since it's HRC, they're gonna drop it.

      We recently found out about another 14,000 emails that are currently being sifted through by investigators in another investigation.
      She's currently trying to slime her way out of it again.

      This is what is happening. If you refuse to see the plain truth in front of your eyes, please don't vote.

    10. Re:Decommissioning servers by Bartles · · Score: 1

      So why is is that some of the 15,000 deleted emails that the FBI was able to recover contain information about Benghazi?

    11. Re:Decommissioning servers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      no but overwriting all data and logs with goatse is standard practice.

  24. Powell is not the prototype ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Powell used an aol account.
    He did NOT put a private server in his house!

    Same for Rice. Powell used it for non-state NON-classified business.

    Hillary has lied so many times about this server, is is clear to any hones observer that she was hiding activities of corruption with the Clinton foundation and did not want FOIA to discover her activities.

    Hillary was supposed to have government archivists sort through the mails, not her personal attorneys. That was a violation of the federal records act.

    She had classified information on the server, despite assertions that she did not- caught in another lie.
    She said all work related mails were turned over. Another lie- the FBI found thousands of work related mails not turned over, including classified.

    1. Re:Powell is not the prototype ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh well AOL, that's a LOT better than a private email server!

    2. Re:Powell is not the prototype ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      And he ensured that it was secure because he kept changing accounts every 30 days to use the free discs they kept mailing to him.

    3. Re: Powell is not the prototype ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It was just a matter of time before summertime conflated the emails with the foundation. Bravo.

      I don't get how a charity that distributes 87% of its donations could be "corrupt", and I'm not sure what kickbacks a Secretary of State would provide to ensure someone/some corp/some country gives to a charity, but whatever, man. Whatever.

      She's evil and awful and shifty and horrible.

      Even if you believe that tripe, Trump is worse. Maybe focus on an actual candidate for 2020 and you can sidestep the whole freaks show then, eh?

    4. Re:Powell is not the prototype ! by mrclevesque · · Score: 1

      Yes Mr anonymous I believe you

  25. Re:Too late, said the Hunter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny
    Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party candidate for president, has now announced his support for a carbon tax, this following earlier positions that rejected religious liberty and endorsed gun control.

    Read the story at the link. It is very clear that libertarian principles have little to do with Johnson’s campaign. He is running as a moderate liberal, through and through.

    Adding the Green Party candidate Jill Stein we now have four liberal Democrats running for President, with two (Clinton and Stein) occupying the communist wing of the party and two (Trump and Johnson) occupying the moderate liberal wing of the party.

  26. srm? by Game+Genie · · Score: 1

    Have any Slashdotters had any experience with BleachBit? Specifically, have you used it for erasing "yoga emails" or "bridesmaids emails?"

    No, srm works fine for deleting things locally. As for email, secure erasure wouldn't help much; it's stored by Google so the NSA already has it.

  27. Re:More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    This isn't mud slinging. This is technology news about obfuscating forensic evidence in practice on a technology website.

  28. FBI Email dump source? by mveloso · · Score: 1

    If they used BleachBit, then where did they FBI get its last batch of emails from?

    1. Re:FBI Email dump source? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Other systems/devices outside of her control that were also seized. Backups. The 'other' server. Things that might have been missed in the wipe. (And remember, this was most likely a selective wipe, the Comey indicated the server did have recoverable data in what he called the 'slack space.' A full wipe would have just been empty.)

      They are very thorough when they are investigating a national security leak.

    2. Re:FBI Email dump source? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If they used BleachBit, then where did they FBI get its last batch of emails from?

      From the servers, before they were wiped. AFAICT, all pending data requests were handled first, then the servers were decommissioned/wiped.

      Which makes me wonder if there's actually any story here.

    3. Re:FBI Email dump source? by Swave+An+deBwoner · · Score: 1
      Ah, but there's a very good story here:

      https://www.bleachbit.org/

      South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy. says Hillary Clinton's team deleted emails "so even God couldn't read them" using BleachBit. (more)

    4. Re:FBI Email dump source? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      From whoever send or received these emails. Every send email has at least two copies, not counting the NSA.

  29. The Clinton's are Paranoid? Shocking!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Maybe the Clinton's wouldn't be so paranoid if it wasn't for the constant attacks their under. Because anything can be taken out of context it's better to hide everything. That's why politicians are so careful with what they say and do in public and why they hide so much of themselves.

  30. Bleachbit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Just used it today got back almost a gigabyte ..

  31. "so even God couldn't read them" by dohzer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    god can't read them because he doesn't exist.

    1. Re: "so even God couldn't read them" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ah, typical slashtard nerd atheist who needs to reaffirm its line of thought by interjecting itself into every thread while contributing nothing.

  32. This article WOULD matter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This article would matter if they mentioned what distro she was using, that was running Tor.

  33. Lots of suggestive evidence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Half here meetings and calls with non-governmental people were Clinton foundation donors.
    This is reported in the AP yesterday.

    Now if we had a fair investigation, we might find out what transpired in these meetings and what favors were discussed.

    There is a lot of appearance of conflict of interest and impropriety. (like the uranium mining deals and the Haiti gold mining deals for here relative)

    1. Re:Lots of suggestive evidence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > tRump has nothing and is so weak that he has to force Putin...

      Being able to force Putin to do things doesn't sound weak. Your conclusion is illogical. It'd even go as far as to say it doesn't make any damn sense.

      > Here is proof they are liars because Hillary says the are liars:

      So we should believe Hillary over the AP?

    2. Re:Lots of suggestive evidence by Bartles · · Score: 2

      You realize that John Podesta, the founder of ThinkPrigress, and Hillary's campaign chairman, took a bunch of money from Russia that he failed to disclose?

    3. Re:Lots of suggestive evidence by david_thornley · · Score: 1

      The uranium mining deal was completely legit, and I suspect anyone who doesn't think so of being an irrational Clinton-hater. Nor does "AP yesterday" a citation make. I still haven't seen evidence.

      --
      "When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
  34. An Ode to MS-DOS undelete by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Pretty much since the days of dos undelete anyone with a cyber-IQ greater than that of a toadstool knows that extra measures are needed to "really delete" a file. I'd have to say that the spin in this slashdot summary is about the sleaziest political sludge I've seen flung here in a long time. How Orwellian is it that slashdot makes their target audience sound like orwellian un-knowledgeables who are so clueless as to not understand the cyber significance of the 30 year old 'undelete' command? Really? The answer to your rhetorical bullshit is yes- I "really undelete" my personal information from computers. I also have enough of a sense of humor to have giggled when I heard Hillary make the "what, like with a cloth" comment. I mean holy shit, how hilarious was that?

  35. Really by JustNiz · · Score: 0

    Anybody who reads stuff like this and still votes for this bitch is a moron.

    1. Re:Really by Wraithlyn · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It's easy to criticize. What do you propose as an alternative?

      Because your options this election are:

      1) Clinton
      2) Trump
      3) Throwing your vote away

      Yeah they all suck. But those are your options.

      --
      "Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
    2. Re:Really by JustNiz · · Score: 1

      Vote for who you like most, even if they have no chance of winning.

      The whole reason we're in this shit in the first place is because most Americans repeatedly vote "tactically" for the least worst mainstream option, rather than who they think would actually be the best.
      Its a chicken and egg thing.

    3. Re:Really by Wraithlyn · · Score: 4, Insightful

      No.

      You're in this shit because the FPTP electoral college system makes a two party lock-in inevitable.

      • - Nearly 1 in 5 Americans voted for Ross Perot in 1992, and didn't receive any representation in government whatsoever.
      • - The last time a "third party" gained traction was 1860, with Lincoln's Republicans. There is a reason it hasn't happened since.

      The system is broken. And the two-party duopoly has no interest in fixing it.

      I'm sorry but acting like things would get better "if only more people voted for better candidates" is a hopelessly naive pipe dream. That requires viable 3rd party candidates, and the US system makes that effectively impossible.

      So I'm afraid I must repeat (and I take no pleasure in saying this, believe me) your only three options this election are Trump, Clinton, or throwing your vote away.

      Of course Clinton is horrible. But would you prefer Trump?

      --
      "Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
    4. Re:Really by AthanasiusKircher · · Score: 1

      So I'm afraid I must repeat (and I take no pleasure in saying this, believe me) your only three options this election are Trump, Clinton, or throwing your vote away.

      That logic only follows if you believe that voting for any losing candidate is "throwing your vote away."

      I completely agree with you that we have a horrific two-party duopoly and that it is reinforced by the first-past-the-post voting.

      HOWEVER, that system only indicates a trend toward a two-party system -- it doesn't guarantee that those two parties will be the only parties for all time, nor does it guarantee that the platforms of those parties will remain stable for all time.

      The losing party in a Presidential election will most certainly pay some attention to what went wrong in the previous election, and if a huge number of votes were siphoned off to a third party, they might consider taking some action to prevent that from happening in the future. That might involve tweaking the platform or something to avoid losing those voters again.

      Or, even better -- a large enough showing by a 3rd-party candidate could finally break the MEDIA reinforcement of the duopoly, since that's truly where the problem lies today. Perot's run was essentially a one-off, but the alternatives in most election years are durable parties (like the Libertarians, the Greens, etc.). If one of them actually could succeed in getting even 10% of votes, it might be harder for media folks to ignore them continuously as they do in most election years.

      That's the real battle -- trying to get media attention. Because this year is truly a year that anything could happen. It's why the two parties fought so hard to keep the 3rd parties out of public debates. (That's the big mistake the parties made with Perot in 1992, and had he not dropped out for a while before rejoining the race again, he likely would have ended up with even higher numbers of support.)

      So many people hate BOTH Clinton and Trump that if you put a better option on a national stage with them, a significant number of people might actually start thinking "Huh, maybe there are better options out there!" Recall all the massive swings in support that happened during the primaries this year due to the debates... now imagine you actually put somebody on stage that starts making sense next to the person the majority of Americans think is a liar and the person the majority of Americans think is loud-mouthed blowhard.

      But go ahead -- keep up your "throw your vote away" nonsense and reinforcing the duopoly.

    5. Re:Really by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's not throwing your vote away unless you vote for someone who is literally ineligible to serve. It's possible, however unlikely, that everyone else would vote the same way and you'd all feel pretty stupid if it was a write-in for a fictional character from some foreign show.

    6. Re:Really by JustNiz · · Score: 1

      Yes I would prefer Trump to Clinton. Fuck I'd prefer Dr. Evil to Clinton.

    7. Re:Really by Cyryathorn · · Score: 1

      I wonder if we can invert the "you're throwing your vote away" argument, which is used as a kind of blackmail by the parties against their base voters. Conservatives should say to the Republican party, and liberals to the Democrat party, "if you don't put up candidates worthy of my vote, then you're throwing the election to the other party". With that, the "blackmail" pressure runs the other direction -- now the moral imperative is placed on the party to put up worthy candidates.

      I'm absolutely willing to call the party's bluff for the sake of the long-term health of our country. Even if that means Cthulhu gets the White House for 4 years.

    8. Re:Really by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hitler or Mussolini. Gotcha. Greatest country on Earth my ass.

    9. Re:Really by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Of course Clinton is horrible. But would you prefer Trump?
      ---
      Absolutely

    10. Re:Really by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Have you considered that option three is not "throwing your vote, away", but a vote to have more candidates and a broader representation of the population? Which seems like exactly what you want.

      I can not sympathize with your feeling of despair. You should get your act together and do the right thing. Don't wait for magic or the universe to fix things, the only way to change something is actions, persistence and patience.

    11. Re:Really by Pfhorrest · · Score: 1

      Unless you live in a swing state, voting for Clinton or Trump IS throwing your vote away. The only way most voters can make any difference is by voting third party. It won't affect who wins this election, but then neither would voting a major party. It will, however, influence party policy the the choice of candidates next election.

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      -Forrest Cameranesi, Geek of all Trades
      "I am Sam. Sam I am. I do not like trolls, flames, or spam."
    12. Re:Really by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes, I would.

      Clinton is the insider's insider. She'll have full support from the Democratic party and, just as (if not more so) importantly, she'll have full support of the federal bureaucracy. She'll be a continuation of that last couple decades, including the trend towards an imperial presidency. She's the most hawkish of all the candidates in the primaries, and the most likely to get us into more wars. On economic matters, she's essentially indistinguishable from Trump, despite whatever flip-flop position she's assumed for the moment.

      On the other hand, we've got Trump. He'll face total opposition from the Democrats, at best he'll get lukewarm support from the Republicans, and total opposition from the entrenched bureaucracy. He'll never be able to start a war (him getting elected is about the only thing I can think of to get Congress to finally pull back their power to declare war) or get anything of substance done. He'll piss off the insiders so much that, for once, Congress will actually pull back on the powers of the President and the Executive Branch.

      So, yes, I do prefer Trump. Either candidate will be a disaster in the short-term, but Hillary will be a disaster in the long-term as well. Trump at least might force some fixes just by being himself and having everyone work against him because of it.

    13. Re:Really by MrSteveSD · · Score: 1

      "So I'm afraid I must repeat (and I take no pleasure in saying this, believe me) your only three options this election are Trump, Clinton, or throwing your vote away."

      If you vote for someone you believe in, your vote is never thrown away. They may not win, but people will see how much support they get, and that can lead to more support next time. You are right though, that FPTP is a poor system. It's particularly poor when it comes to electing presidents because (as far as I understand it), it is not possible for two candidates to combine their votes in any way, unlike parties which can combine their votes and form a coalition. The upshot of this is that people like Bernie Sanders won't risk standing as an independent for risk of splitting the left wing vote. You could have a system where candidates can pledge to transfer their votes to another candidate in the event they fail to secure enough votes themselves. It could bring an end to the endless oscillation between Republican and Democrat presidents.

    14. Re:Really by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The electoral college is not FPTP. You have to actually gain 50% or more of the electoral votes. If none of the parties gain 50%, then the House picks out of the top 3 president candidates. So a third party can actually disrupt the system. They just have to win one state that prevents the other two from gaining 50%.

      What is FPTP, though, is each of the states mechanisms for deciding who wins the electoral vote. And so people should be agitating their state (not the country) to change. If, say California or Texas, made a change so that the electoral votes were split by percentage of vote, then presidential election would change pretty drastically. But neither of the ruling parties in those two states would want to make a change since it hurts them.

    15. Re:Really by AthanasiusKircher · · Score: 1

      So I'm afraid I must repeat (and I take no pleasure in saying this, believe me) your only three options this election are Trump, Clinton, or throwing your vote away.

      Thankfully, someone has found a third option. Don't want to bring in the Trump apocalypse but hate voting for Clinton? Pair up with an "anti-Hillary" voter and negate each other while throwing your support to a candidate you'd prefer!

    16. Re:Really by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      For the love of all the children everywhere, yes, we prefer Trump (*gag*)

      Sincerely yours,

      the rest of the world

    17. Re:Really by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Of course Clinton is horrible. But would you prefer Trump?

      __

      Since you asked...in a word, yes.

       

    18. Re:Really by Wraithlyn · · Score: 1

      Fair enough. I respect your opinion.

      My point though, is that there are plenty of arguments of the "Anybody who reads this stuff and votes for TRUMP is a moron" variety too.

      It's too simplistic to just say "candidate X is bad so don't vote for them". Because they're all bad.

      --
      "Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
    19. Re:Really by Wraithlyn · · Score: 1

      That's actually brilliant.

      Who knows, maybe social technology can solve this logjam.

      --
      "Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
    20. Re:Really by JustNiz · · Score: 1

      You're right they're all bad, however bad is relative.
      I would contend that Hilary is obviously worse than Trump because she is blatantly corrupt (primary mechanism being the Clinton foundation), habitually lies on a level bordering psychopathy, and is not even eligible to get security clearance necessary to be president.
      http://thehill.com/policy/nati...
      http://www.nationalreview.com/...
        At least one source has evidence that in fact she never had actually passed security clearance.
      http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...

      She has already also clearly sold out the US many times to enrich herself/the Clinton foundation. Do some research for yourself into exactly why middle eastern countries like Saudi are donating millions to the Clinton Foundation.

      Trump is a clueless pompous asshat but at least he isn't blatantly corrupt career criminal, and also I beleive he's clearly more of a patriot that Clinton, in that he would be far more likely to put the interests of the US first than she ever would, given she's already provably sold it out for her own benefit many times.

    21. Re:Really by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm okay with throwing my vote away on a third party candidate this time around if it means that they'll have enough votes to be a presence in the debates in 2020.

  36. Willful ignorance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I shake my head reading comments from rabid Hillary supporters who see nothing wrong with not only deleting emails AFTER an FBI investigation has begun, but then using BleachBit to make sure they can never be recovered. Interesting too that I never hear about backups. Were these servers ever backed up? Were the backups destroyed too?

    If this were a private non-Democratic supporter they'd already be found guilty of destroying evidence.

    What's the most interesting is the human psychology involved in excusing any behavior of a politician an individual supports. As Trump once said tongue-in-cheek that he could shoot someone and his supporters would still support him. It is obvious that statement is not tongue-in-cheek for Hillary's supporters on SlashDot.

  37. God can read them by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 1

    If by God, you mean the NSA.

    Already stored on the relay device reads collected.

    So it is available, even if they tell you it isn't.

    And they can recover it from the physical disks. It's just a lot harder.

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    -- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
  38. Re: Too late, said the Hunter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I wouldn't call Clinton a communist or Trump a moderate liberal.

  39. Lies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes it does, read the laws. There is a Navy person who facing 20 years to life for disposing of a phone which had his picture while inside the sub. That is one of the more extreme cases, but it's literally a Web Search to prove you are wrong (shill?) Intent comes in to play _only_ for the penalty.

    1. Re:Lies by AthanasiusKircher · · Score: 2

      Intent comes to play in guilt or acquittal in accordance with the charge. Intent to kill marks the difference between murder and manslaughter, for example. Holding some coke and possessing with intent to sell are wholly different charges, applied well before the penalty phase, turning on the question of intent, which is a question for the fact-finder (don't confuse this with plea-bargaining).

      Intent is important in some charges. I don't know whether or not it is relevant to the Clinton case or not, and frankly I don't care to bother trying to sort it all out. However, it is clear the "negligence" or "gross negligence" can result in conviction for mishandling classified information, regardless of intent.

      And as long as it's literally a Web Search away (shill?), howabout a link to this story about that Navy person who facing 20 years to life for disposing of a phone.

      I'm not sure whether this is the case or not (I don't follow such cases), but literally the first hit that came up in a web search is this one, where a navy sailor has now been sentenced to a year in prison (had been facing 5-6 years under federal sentencing guidelines) for taking photos on a submarine. According to the link, he actually made a legal appeal for probation based on the recent precedent set by the FBI ruling on the Clinton investigation!

      Anyhow, you can easily find dozens of cases like this one where people end up with prison terms for mishandling classified information in relatively "innocent" ways.

    2. Re:Lies by bongey · · Score: 3, Insightful

      He got 1 YEAR for 6 photos in trying to show off to his girlfriend and another girl(aka trying to get laid). The statue was could have been used on Clinton but well she is Clinton. Comey was actually incorrect when he testified to congress that the FBI hasn't brought charges under 18 U.S. Code 793, most recent as 2014. Note the section 793(f) Comey has referred to has been brought against others, they all made plea deals for lesser charges. https://www.justsecurity.org/w...

    3. Re: Lies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      https://www.navytimes.com/story/military/crime/2015/08/01/kristian-saucier-alexandria-submarine-pictures-john-walker/30907091/

      Prosecutors allege that Petty Officer First Class Kristian Saucier used a cellphone camera to take photos in the classified engine room of the nuclear submarine where he worked as a mechanic, the USS Alexandria, then destroyed a laptop, camera and memory card after learning he was under investigation.
      Last July, Saucier was indicted on one felony count of unlawful retention of national defense information and another felony count of obstruction of justice.
      Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/kristian-saucier-investigation-hillary-clinton-223646#ixzz4IWdoI87P

      A US Navy sailor was sentenced on Friday to a year in prison for taking photos of classified areas inside a nuclear attack submarine while it was in port in Connecticut.
      Prosecutors asked US district judge Stefan Underhill to send Saucier to prison for five years, saying his conduct put national security at risk.
      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/20/us-navy-sailor-jailed-for-taking-photos-of-classified-areas-of-nuclear-submarine

      Do you need more? I hope you get get google working soon.

    4. Re:Lies by Cl1mh4224rd · · Score: 2

      There is a Navy person who facing 20 years to life for disposing of a phone which had his picture while inside the sub.

      A quick Google search tells me that you're not representing the situation accurately.

      The sailor isn't facing charges for simply having taken pictures of himself while on the sub; he had several pictures of classified engineering spaces: "The photos that raised red flags at NCIS and the FBI included images of various control panels, a panoramic view of the reactor compartment and a panel that showed the condition and exact location of the submarine at the time the photo was taken." (source)

      --
      People will pass up steak once a week, for crap every day.
    5. Re:Lies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Rather like Fox News' Geraldo drawing maps in the sand on-camera while the US was in the middle of invading Iraq.

    6. Re:Lies by bongey · · Score: 1

      He got 1 YEAR for 6 photos/selfies that had only secret info in trying to show off to his girlfriend and another girl(aka trying to get laid). Clinton had 6 Above Top Secret emails special access programs information on a public email server that was unencrypted for months. https://www.theguardian.com/us...
      Yes 6 photos.

    7. Re:Lies by flargleblarg · · Score: 1

      The word you are looking for is statute, not statue.

    8. Re:Lies by bongey · · Score: 1

      I am as good at spelling as Hillary and the DNC is with email.

  40. Never heard of it by undefinedreference · · Score: 1

    When I need data unrecoverable, I use dd. You don't really need anything else. /dev/zero and /dev/zero | tr '\000' '\377', do until you get bored or start getting errors...

    Of course, if I only ran Windows, I guess I wouldn't have many choices.

    1. Re:Never heard of it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      man shred

      Very useful, I would indeed use it on yoga emails just as I do everything else that I think is in any way sensitive that I want deleted!

      Hillary's a bitch and a liar and deserves to be in prison, but saying that shredding deleted files properly is abnormal is incorrect. I do it a lot.

  41. Re:Too late, said the Hunter by Plugh · · Score: 2, Informative
  42. MS Exchange by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You don't really need to know any more than this to know that the server was not secure. There are exactly 0 ISPs, including Microsoft, who use Exchange as the first layer for email processing. They are insecure and should never, ever, be exposed directly to the Internet. Now now and especially not using the versions of NT and Exchange the people she hired used.

  43. Open Source cos lower chance of NSA exploits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ALL commercial 'security' product are vetted and compromised by the NSA in the USA. There is a very good reason the NSA spent HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of dollars undermining the reputation of Truecrypt by buying editorial opinion on tech sites like this one, and paying off certain key devs to walk away from the project. Truecrypt lived up to its reputation (and still does), so it was essential as many sheeple as possible were discouraged from using it.

    Commercial file delete programs 'accidently' ON PURPOSE do their very best to leave files in a recoverable state. No informed governmental agency would ever use them. But on most common storage devices, the code required to do a secure wipe is quite trivial to create.

    Sites like Slashdot have repeatedly spread the lie that the NSA has 'magic' tech that can recover properly deleted files (which, by definition, would require the storage device to have at least TWICE the data capacity that it claims- but most sheeple are very poor at maths so miss this obvious disproof of the claim). The reason for this FUD is that people are less likely to bother with proper security if they think it is a waste of time anyway- the major psyop the NSA usues to lessen security in general.

    That America's greatest living warmonger, Hitlery Clinton, knows how to properly erase her files should come as no surprise.

    1. Re:Open Source cos lower chance of NSA exploits by guruevi · · Score: 2

      Criminal investigations don't use 'undelete'. They use electron microscopes to read areas that were microscopically out of alignment the next time the drive passed it's head. It's very expensive to actually recover large amounts of data this way, but for 'spy agency' needs it's trivial.

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      Custom electronics and digital signage for your business: www.evcircuits.com
    2. Re:Open Source cos lower chance of NSA exploits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There's nothing trivial about the process. This is similar to when people believe that 'various agencies' can zoom in indefinitely on a photo, or some other nonsense.

  44. Re:More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This isn't mud slinging. This is technology news about obfuscating forensic evidence in practice on a technology website.

    Your statement is mudslinging.

    Whether the secure wipe was used as a simple matter of Best Practice, or was done for Nefarious reasons, is not known. So when the article makes judgements such as "When you're using BleachBit, it is something you really do not want the world to see." it becomes a political mudslinging story.
    I don't personally use this software, but I personally always securely wipe any drive which I'm done using. Even if there's nothing on there, even if it only contains "yoga emails" or etc.

    The disturbing thing to me is that this article is all but using the "If you have nothing to hide, you wouldn't use secure wipe methods" line of bullshit. Using strong encryption, secure wipe software, etc. should not be allowed to be seen as a "shady" or "suspicious" activity- it should rather be seen as the Intelligent and Normal way of doing things.

  45. Impeding investigation = being responsible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You heard it here first, slashdotters.

    Playing games with investigators and not giving them all the evidence they are requesting (and being powerful enough to get away with it) is now 'being responsible'.

    You like data security right? Well Hillary's data is super secure now that it has been destroyed using BleachBit! Nothing to see here, misogirapist shitlords!

    1. Re:Impeding investigation = being responsible by OrangeTide · · Score: 1

      Well we all kind of assumed that she, or really any one in government leadership, is above the law.

      --
      “Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
  46. Re:More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Oh hell no. We (read: Assange) have more than enough new shit to keep the next two months verrry interesting.

    Deal with it America, you're getting reengreatened whether you like it or not.

  47. Define Wiping Hillary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Went from thinking wiping a computer means cleaning it with a rag to secure deletion and destruction. Hrmmm, those Video Professor DVDs taught her a lot in such a short time span.

  48. Good security policy by OrangeTide · · Score: 1

    You should be securely erasing your emails, even if they just contain the password to your favorite forum, let alone if they contain sensitive communications to the secretary of state.

    --
    “Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
  49. What are Americans smoking? by JustNiz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just how blatantly obviously criminal does Hi-liar-y have to get before enough of the brainwashed American masses finally start to figure it out and she becomes unelectable?
    I mean at some point even her levels of dirty money can't pay off the obviously corrupt US legal system to keep her out of jail any longer right?

    1. Re:What are Americans smoking? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Just how blatantly obviously criminal does Hi-liar-y have to get before enough of the brainwashed American masses finally start to figure it out and she becomes unelectable?
      I mean at some point even her levels of dirty money can't pay off the obviously corrupt US legal system to keep her out of jail any longer right?

      Well, I can't speak for all Americans, but...

      Some Americans don't pick up on the newest anti-Hillary hit piece until it's a week later and already discredited. Some do pick up on the latest anti-Hillary hit piece and withhold judgment until, a week later, it's discredited. Only a precious few read the latest hit piece and ignore the bit where it's discredited. These are the people still talking about Bengazi, the Clinton Foundation, Vince Foster, ACORN, and so on.

      Now, certainly there's also a canny few in between, who aren't particularly fazed by the Imaginary Scandal of the Week, but also see that Clinton is still just another fairly unprincipled politician, based on her voting record in the Senate alone. Nothing jail-worthy, of course, but not exactly squeaky clean. But then we see that a vote for anyone other than Hillary supports Trump. And, for foreigners who don't know much about US history, it's very important that Trump is so soundly defeated that nobody attempts to repeat his campaign--because it's basically the third act of the US Civil War with its white supremacists, and that shit just has to end, and should have ended over a century ago when the Confederacy got it's ass handed to it the first time.

    2. Re:What are Americans smoking? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No one wants her to become unelectable because the media did its job and got Trump to be the Republican candidate. Sad state of affairs.

    3. Re:What are Americans smoking? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It doesnt matter. No prosecutor wants to touch her. Cant say I blame them. They go out of their way to ruin people who cross them. Take for example Dr. Drew on CNN. He says something kinda shaky and he is out. The wagons are circled and they have closed ranks. No one really dares to speak outside of the pre-canned speaking points.

      She lies so much you have no idea if she is on the level or just covering up yet another 'quasi legal/illegal' controversy.

      This the sort of petty BS we have long become accustomed to with the Clintons. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121980 Everything is shady, unless, you look at it in a very very very particular way (in this case a harmless prank and not destruction of government property). They have not yet found a good spin for the pay for play thing yet. But they will by Nov, I have no doubt about it. My guess is some sort of scapegoat. But not for denying it as long as they can. Then pick a slow news spot and say 'yeah well we sorta yeah did that'. By that time no one really cares anymore. Once they admit it they usually have their excuses in order and well rehearsed.

      Assange could produce emails that she is drinking the blood of babies she murders before a satanic ritual held every 4 hours. That would somehow be legal. Not only legal, Anyone who says its bad would be considered racist for suggesting that its wrong. There would be people on the internet suggesting she is actually helping the world and is a crusader for womans rights by removing the burden of those children from them.

    4. Re:What are Americans smoking? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "...a vote for anyone other than Hillary supports Trump."

      That is only true if you live in a swing state. If instead you live in one of the many states that will go solidly Democrat or Republican, then you can safely vote for whomever you want, without the effect you describe.

      Make some noise.

    5. Re:What are Americans smoking? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "...a vote for anyone other than Hillary supports Trump."

      That is only true if you live in a swing state. If instead you live in one of the many states that will go solidly Democrat or Republican, then you can safely vote for whomever you want, without the effect you describe.

      Make some noise.

      No, you missed (and avoided quoting) the part where Trump needs to be beaten by such a large margin that nobody tries to repeat his performance in future years.

      Every generation or so, Americans are called upon to put the dogs of the Confederacy down yet again. "Making some noise" is frankly little more than jerking off when you could be helping drive Dixie down for the last time.

    6. Re:What are Americans smoking? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If instead you live in one of the many states that will go solidly Democrat or Republican, then you can safely vote for whomever you want

      The primaries are over. Stein? Johnson? Clinton's still preferable by a wide, wide margin. Yeah, Bernie would have been a decent upstanding candidate. But you can't just gloss over the flaws in the existing third party candidates by wishing really hard they were Bernie.

    7. Re:What are Americans smoking? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      blah blah Hi-liar-y blah blah

      Your childishness causes the rest of your message to be ignored. Well done.

    8. Re:What are Americans smoking? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hi-liar-y

      Your post is good but that word alone makes me really want to mod it down as a troll...

    9. Re:What are Americans smoking? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The GOP handed her the victory when they allowed Donald Trump to be their nominee. The fact that they managed to find someone less electable is honestly impressive.

    10. Re:What are Americans smoking? by JustNiz · · Score: 1

      >> Clinton is still just another fairly unprincipled politician, based on her voting record in the Senate alone. Nothing jail-worthy, of course,

      Bullshit. Anybody else and they'd be in prison.

    11. Re:What are Americans smoking? by JustNiz · · Score: 1

      Your having no balls to stand by your own words and posting as AC causes the rest of your message to be ignored. Well done.

  50. And there's this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Riiiiiight

    https://youtu.be/4MaoNDzZ8Mw

  51. Re:More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    The IT team for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton used the open source cleaning software BleachBit to wipe systems "so even God couldn't read them," according to South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy on Fox News.

    Clearly, South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy does not know God.

  52. Yoga? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'm here to sign up for the girls doing yoga email list!

  53. Re:More political redirection by meerling · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I know a rather large number of people that use secure delete or wipe tools.
    It may be considered strange by computer neophytes and people that don't work with government computer systems, but it's pretty common for techies and government computer people with security clearance required jobs to employ that kind of software.
    I guess the people that are making accusations over that are either ignorant, or disingenuous.

  54. Regular folk logic by Tablizer · · Score: 1

    You don't use BleachBit for yoga emails or bridesmaids emails. When you're using BleachBit, it is something you really do not want the world to see

    But being the Clintons, aggressive Foxnews-like snoops would love to get their hands on yoga and bridesmaids info also. Look how many conservatives sites are claiming a health conspiracy. Why give conspiracy nuts more fuel? They'll weave yoga into their narrative also.

  55. Re: Too late, said the Hunter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's all a matter of perspective. If you're on the far right, Trump's a liberal and Clinton's a communist. From where I stand, they're both right-wing authoritarians.

  56. You're being willfully ignorant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    1. She put classified info on a private unsecured server where it was vulnerable, contrary to the law which she was fully advised of upon taking office.
    2. She did all her work through that server, hiding it from all 3 government branches (congressional oversight, executive oversight, and the courts) and public FOIA requests.
    3. When the material was sought by the courts and congress, she and the state department people lied under oath claiming the material did not exist (perhaps Nixon cronies should have all lied about tapes existing).
    4. After her people knew the material was being sought, the server's files were transferred (by private IT people w/o clearances) to her lawyers (no clearances).
    5. She and her lawyers deleted over 30000 e-mails, claiming they were only about yoga and her daughter's wedding dress (Nixon cut a few minutes of tape).
    6. They then wiped the files with bit bleach (a step not needed for yoga or wedding dress e-mails). (Nixon did not degauss all his tapes)
    7. They handed the wiped server to the FBI, and hillary publicly played ignorant with her "with a CLOTH?" comment (absolute iin-you-face arrogance against the rule of law) (Nixon did not hand tape recorders with erased tapes to the FBI)
    Prove you are sincere, and not a total unprincipled partisan hack:
    Are you a Nixon supporter?
    Would you accept this behavior from Donald Trump or Dick Cheney?

    1. Re:You're being willfully ignorant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Indeed. I wonder how many of the people apologizing for Hillary Clinton were harsh critics of President Nixon during Watergate? Well, the shoe is on the other foot now and they don't like the fit apparently.

  57. Well, are YOU... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    hiding documents that belong to the federal government (all her work product and classified info) and that are being sought by the US Congress (which the Constitution authorizes to oversee executive branch employees like the Secretary of State) and by the courts and by citizens filing FOIA requests?

    Nice try at being supposedly non-partisan, but the only people trying to justify or downplay this total disregard for the law are hard-core Hillary supporters. The FBI said they'd pursue any person other than Hillary who did this. Anybody for democracy or open government or honest government is repulsed by this and would never support a person like this being anywhere near government power again, other than in a striped or orange jumpsuit of course.

    1. Re:Well, are YOU... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Guess what, faggot Trump supporter? Nobody is building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Your fat bastard of a candidate isn't getting elected. In fact he needs to be shot and killed as soon as possible, the world will be better off without his brand of racism, bigotry, intolerance, and utter stupidity. When Hillary is elected we'll lobby her to push Congress for a law that requires and IQ test for all adult Americans, and if it's less than 3 digits, you'll have your voting rights removed. That right there will eliminate all Trump supporters from the political process. Then we can proceed to progress this country socially to the way it's supposed to be, not regress it back into the 1940's like you violently retarded losers seem to want.

      Poor little babbys can't handle the modern world and want it to be SIMPLE like they are!

      Just because you still use a VCR and still can't figure out how to make it stop flashing "12:00" all the time doesn't mean we should have to put up with a world as simple as you are.

  58. Backup appliance and server have all emails by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hillary Clinton's IT guy purchased an MS Exchange hosting contract from Platte River. The standard package came with a periodic backup to a Datto appliance, which takes snapshots of the Windows disk image several times a day. The appliance copies the snapshot to Datto's data center in real time. You can erase or even destroy the Windows machine drives and still use the snapshots to restore the disks to the snapshot of the time and date of your chosing.

    The FBI confiscated the appliance from Platte River and seized the server from Datto. They have all the emails she sent and received since the start of her State Department tenure.

  59. Re:More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I guess the people that are making accusations over that are either ignorant, or disingenuous.

    I prefer option 3, they are pointing out the peculiarity that, given all the other shit she's pulled, in this one instance, she chose to follow best practices.

  60. so.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Nixon was a great guy who was just being paranoid?

    Remember: [a] Nixon had the election stolen from him in 1960 when dead people were found to have voted in both Illinois and Texas and JFK was by the skin of his teeth [b] Nixon had no knowledge of or involvement in the Watergate break-in - he just worked like mad to cover it up when he learned of it and was worried it would destroy his presidency

    Another note: Hillary was a young lawyer working on the Democrat side in the Nixon impeachment. She was denounced by even fellow Democrats for insisting that Nixon did not even deserve access to defense lawyers and she was ultimately kicked-off the team for stealing and hiding documents. She has been playing unethical games with documents since the 1970s and knows EXACTLY what she is doing. Such a person should NEVER be allowed near power.

    I'm NOT advocating for Trump. He is, sadly, the only real option left. As loathsome and crude as he may be, he has never abused government authority and power, whereas Hillary has been doing this stuff for decades, including when she hid documents in the White House residence from the courts while she was First Lady.

  61. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I wonder if secretary Clinton feels the same way about everybody being allowed to use strong encryption which is related to rights wise to secure deletion but not the same thing.

  62. Re:More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    They deliberately used the software and then said there was nothing there. The point is they deleted something that would be called up by discovery, to ensure that no one could get it *for* discovery.

    You, good sir, are most obviously misdirecting. Good try.

  63. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    There are record retention laws, so the fact that she is trying to irevocably wipe a system is suspicious. Even if they were her mailingz of her super secret cookie recipes to chelsea on a server that would make them records unless this tool can show yourbwhich ciles it will overwrite. Not a fan of donntrump but hillary is shite. No vote for the binary candidtates, any monkeys, animated cartoon characters or indy candidatess? Otherwise might just have to go trump to spite the establishment.

  64. Re:More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A: "But anyone could hack in and see her emails, it's totally unsecure!"
    B: "She used BleachBit."
    A: "That proves she had something to hide!"

    Being that Clinton didn't give a damn about securing the physical server and didn't give a damn about securing the messages sent through the server, it seems strange that she suddenly cares about security practices when deleting e-mail messages about yoga classes.

    Oh, did I mention that deleting the e-mail messages would be considered an obstruction of justice if it were done by a typical citizen?

  65. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    That may well be all true, but she specifically defeated those emails, and only those emails so that they were unrecoverable. If this is in fact standard practice, she should have known that IF those emails contained nothing but yoga appointments or whatever, that deleating those emails would have at least been PERCIEVED as have been done for nefarious purposes. Knowing that she was going to run for President, and I would think at least somewhat politically self aware, it seems almost silly to think that she would risk hurting herself politically if those emails were benign.

  66. A motto for Clinton? by Panoptes · · Score: 1

    "Noblesse Obleach"

  67. Dead Lincoln and Gary Johnson by RoccamOccam · · Score: 1

    Very funny video that lays out the case for Johnson
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  68. Re:More political redirection by penguinoid · · Score: 1

    I thought she wiped the server with a towel?

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  69. Re:So...you're not voting. Gotcha. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Looks like he's not voting. Probably couldn't take the stress.

  70. Love the hyperbole by HalAtWork · · Score: 1

    "You don't use BleachBit for yoga emails or bridesmaids emails."

    Why yes I do, I use it for the most benign shit constantly, because it's easy and automatic. I only archive and preserve the stuff I care about.

  71. Re:More political redirection by Darinbob · · Score: 1

    Let's be pragmatic here. She didn't decide the logistics of her email server and how to secure it or delete emails. Her IT intern did this.

  72. Re:Too late, said the Hunter by Darinbob · · Score: 0

    Makes sense. Conservatives hate carbon credits as being unconservative (if it was good enough for my grandpappy it's good enough for me). Libertarians may see a carbon credit as just another method of using the free market forces to account for non-monetary externalities. The conservative idea of free market is do whatever it takes to make me rich, be fair to me and be unfair to the competition, tariffs are bad unless they help out my business in which case they're good. The libertarian idea of the free market is to be fair with reasonable regulation to ensure fairness, though of course different libertarians have different ideas about how little regulation is enough.

  73. Re:More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It is complete normal to do so, but that doesn't make it less legal to destroy evidence.

  74. Vote Green by mdsolar · · Score: 1

    Vote Jill not Hill 2016.

  75. Re: Too late, said the Hunter by Darinbob · · Score: 1

    No one really knows Trump's political stance since he's not really giving out any details of his policies. He just says whatever gives the biggest cheers at his rallies.

    Politics isn't as simple as left vs right or liberal vs conservative. That's just simplistic hand waving to stop the mases from thinking things through. It is possible to be anti-immigrant and pro-gun-control at the same time, for less regulation and more social safety nets at the same time, and so forth. It's more complex than even a Gartner Group quadrant diagram; if there are N political issues then there are N axes on the political spectrum.

  76. Step up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Step it up, melt your hard drives and SAN arrays if you want data to be really destroyed.

  77. Re:More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And deleted this stuff well after any typical or logical time frame. But right before an investigation. Hmm.

  78. Got it. You're not voting. Enjoy irrelevance. by Brannon · · Score: 1

    no text

  79. experience with Fox News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Have any Slashdotters had any experience with BleachBit?
    I have no experience with BleachBit. I have, however, experience a constant stream of Fox New headlines for many many years, announcing horrible things that Democrats did, or did not do, or horrible things about to come because of Democrats, or horrible things--like indictments--will be happening very soon to a Democrat.

    Some of these have actually happened!
    God bless Charlie Sykes.

  80. Wouldn't Stop Forensic Recovery by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The majority of harddrives on the market today are of the magnetic type. To store information, they magnetically orient a cluster of thousands of magnetically responsive material. What this means is that, even after using disk erasure software, some of these magnets do not change orientation, thus a history of previous content remains on the disk. It is just a matter of getting sensitive reading equipment and big data analysis to recover the majority of the disk content. That content could also include many layers of data from multiple years.

    The only secure drive, is a molten metal one.

  81. Re:More political redirection by prisoner-of-enigma · · Score: 2

    Whether the secure wipe was used as a simple matter of Best Practice, or was done for Nefarious reasons, is not known. So when the article makes judgements such as "When you're using BleachBit, it is something you really do not want the world to see." it becomes a political mudslinging story.

    What exactly is the purpose of BleachBit? As described on its own web page, BleachBit "tirelessly guards your privacy." It doesn't matter if it was wiped because of "best practices" (something rather laughable given that Sec. Clinton was violating the "best practices" of the very department she was head of according to the head of IT at SecState) or to hide nefarious activities. The main purpose of BleachBit is to preserve privacy by "obfuscating forensic evidence." The OP's statement was completely correct and made no judgments whatsoever about the guilt or innocence of Sec. Clinton. You're calling it mudslinging because you don't like the idea of people questioning her motives and wish to deflect attention.

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  82. the routine exaggeration by cats-paw · · Score: 1

    of everything she has done wrong, and the relentless pursuit of "where's there's smoke there's fire" witchhunting without any substantial evidence has got me convinced that this really is a witchhunt.

    I wasn't too excited about her before, but at this point, I'm positively thrilled.

    meanwhile the fake billionaire who wants to instutionalize racism gets far less negative press. i haven't seen or heard one interview that's gone after the Trump campaign morons with 1/2 the gusto i've seen that they go after the most trivial details of what Clinton has allegedly done.

    if she can put up with all this bullshit she deserves the job, she's definitely got the temperment for it.

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  83. Re:More political redirection by prisoner-of-enigma · · Score: 2

    Let's be pragmatic here. She didn't decide the logistics of her email server and how to secure it or delete emails. Her IT intern did this.

    Let's be realistic here. She didn't tell her IT guy what tools to use. She didn't have to. Someone -- and it doesn't take too much intelligence to guess who -- gave a directive to make that server and all its contents disappear Jimmy Hoffa style. That directive was given only after the existence of the server became public knowledge and its contents were requested. Can guilt be proven by such an action? No. But can anyone make any remotely plausible, intelligent, cohesive argument as to why someone running for POTUS would knowingly put themselves in such an awkward, damaging position?

    Clinton is no fool. She knew wiping the server after it was discovered would leave her open to charges of hiding things. The most plausible explanation of why she'd do this was because there were things on the server that were even more awkward and damaging.

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  84. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Voting trump to "spite the establishment" is the equivalent to chopping off your own dick so you don't have to fuck your wife tonight. You'll deserve what you ask for fyi.

  85. Re:More political redirection by AthanasiusKircher · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I guess the people that are making accusations over that are either ignorant, or disingenuous.

    Here's the problem -- Clinton deleted these emails AFTER they were requested from the House as part of an official investigation. She chose to print out everything she claimed was relevant (probably to avoid giving away metadata in headers, etc.) and then effectively "burned" the server, including (by her lawyer's own admission) tens of thousands of messages.

    FBI investigations have now come up with thousands of emails which were NOT turned over in that paper dump. How many could have been part of those that were deleted and then lost when the server was wiped? We'll never know. Many of them were likely deleted in error, with her lawyers not realizing which ones should have been retained as they were going through tens of thousands of documents. But were ALL of these official state department emails recovered by the FBI (now 15,000+) deleted "in error"?

    That's what's troubling about all of this. We have no way of knowing whether there may have been significant spoliation of evidence here (that's the legal term for intentionally, recklessly, or negligently destroying evidence). If this were a corporation who had been issued a subpoena and they acted in this manner, and it was later proven that they "lost" over ten thousand relevant documents in the process of their destruction of "irrelevant" documents, they would likely face significant legal sanctions, perhaps even criminal charges.

    Legally, the safe course in this instance would have been to put the server in a secure location with legal supervision by Clinton's counsel until the matter could be resolved. Clinton's use of BleachBit is not surprising here -- not because it's proper protocol to delete secure information, but because it's the only reasonable way to delete potentially incriminating evidence of spoliation (even if most of it was accidental or whatever). If they hadn't used a very secure deletion protocol, then Clinton's attorneys would have been doing a VERY poor job at protecting her legally.

    Personally, I'm not sure it's likely there was any "evil memo" buried among the State Department correspondence that could prove anything. (And if there were, I'm not convinced Clinton realized it.) On the other hand, I'm sure she had a bunch of private email dealings that she wouldn't want to get out -- if for nothing else then for bad public relations. Hence the destruction of everything on the server -- it's in line with the privacy paranoia that likely caused her to set up the server in the first place. But could there have been worse stuff there too? Maybe. Doesn't seem like we'll ever know, though, does it?

  86. classify everything? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The Clinton email scandal has been overhyped. You all know what the top secret info actually was, right? Seven drone strikes that were public knowledge and a conversation with the president of Malawi. If this info had leaked, it might have meant exactly nothing. There was no security risk to the USA.

    It is mind-boggling that all of this effort has been spent hyperventilating about the "top secret" emails, and almost no one except Kaplan in his Slate article have bothered to write about the actual information content of the emails.

  87. Re: Too late, said the Hunter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hey Darrin, you keep spouting off bullshit like you know what you're talking about. I bet you claim to be a libertarian. Everything you just posted is the complete opposite of the libertarian platform. You're dumb and should feel dumb for being dumb.

  88. even "God", huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So, if we're bringing religion into this, then God who made man, who made computers, who also made software, created something that would make it so God "Himself" couldn't read the information anymore? But then God is supposedly all-powerful and all-knowing. Yet he can't read deleted data.

    So computers and software > Christian God. Neat.

  89. Re: More political redirection by Bartles · · Score: 1

    Do they use those tools to delete data after they were issued a subpoena?

  90. Extensive Experience with Bleachbit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0


    (Hat tip stealing your shit from zerohedge today!)

    Ghost of Porky Handful of Dust Aug 26, 2016 5:33 PM

    Bleachbit Free Version - erases your hard drive.
    Bleachbit Advanced - $99 - erases hard drive and scrubs internet history.
    Bleachbit Pro - $1,999,999 - erases hard drive, scrubs internet, and threatens the life of the FBI director.
    Bleachbit Enterprise - $call us for licensing - erases hard drive, scrubs internet, threatens the FBI director and goes through your personal contacts "removing" any who have information on you.


      if you add in bitcoin, you have the framework for an assassination based direct democracy.

    On the other side, before you start screaming at me for provocative suggestions, ask yourself why your not pissed off at the 10 trillion rockefellas, or the 600 trillion rothchilds. What infestation to the MIC has this taken? How many dead people kilt there? bite your fucking tongue now!

    Shifting gear, Just some side issues take LEARNING, hell if I had $1000 bucks I could do quite a bit of electronics work/experimentation hardware pushing myself soldering and doing SDR, but I don't have the money. These rothchild banker guys do. They simply type a fucking number on a screen and it's so.

    Why not teaching electronics in school? this fuckign commie core sht is why.

    I have a show, It's decent, I do my own website it suffers from lack of my OWN time, I do my own editing, my own mixing of multi-camera shots, I promote bands, I create jingles from scratch, I also play music myself, I am in a band also, I also create music videos, but again I don't have 600 trillion, I am not EMI! I could be pretty damn good, but for lack of funding, want to upgrade my ass from SD to HD across the board? Three new reds and several boxen with dual xenons? didn't think so. I am not greedy, I never ASKED the public for jack shit, I won't, I won't ask to be UNDERWRITTEN either!!!

    I see mainstream leg crosser people on tv, they are clueless how much work it is to have a fucking show, sometimes you can throw money at something and fix it, while I can't fix the TIME spent, I certainly could upgrade the QUALITY of the production --making the bands and labels happier too as a side effect. You know the MUSIC I love.. not the fucking shitty ass war news and unconstitutional shit laws getting passed each fucking day, or the bad diet they push on us, no wonder your A1C is so high, all that fuckign sugar--Fuck Dr Phil, Dr Oz, your on the path for a STENT bitch especially if you can not see your dick. But the IRONY is if you ate clean food without the POISONS. you would NOT NEED OBAMACARE AT ALL.

    I look at studios like CBS or NBC and others, and only wonder what a little small internet patriot show (I could name a lot) could turn things around if they only had access to the same resources, ending these damn lies, confronting treason and putting the rule of law and the USA first, bringing down the traitors, stopping these false flag wars. If you funded these small guys the big guys would become irrelevant, if not exposed themself as corrupt gatekeepers.

    Time to grow up

    Quit Drinking
    Quit smoking
    Quit eating like shit go on the fucking wheat belly diet, and stop BUYING HFCS - fucking fighting it in the courts, fight it with your fucking wallet.
    Challenge TREASON where you can
    Boycott STUPID you can't fix STUPID and STUPID WILL KILL

  91. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Well said.

  92. I have a suggestion... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I've come to the conclusion that Trump was intended to be a dummy candidate, someone so bad it would drive voters to Hillary. Someone who otherwise had too many dirty secrets to succeed against a real Republican candidate. (let's face it, in US federal politics, a third party or independent candidate really doesn't have a chance) What we're left with is two candidates, both horribly distasteful choices for President.

    I think US voters should either vote for any other 3rd party candidate or, easier still, don't vote at all Don't attend rallies for either party, refuse to donate or have a sign on your lawn. Totally sit this election out!

    As the great American philosopher George Carlin said:

    “I don't vote. Two reasons. First of all it's meaningless; this country was bought and sold a long time ago. The shit they shovel around every 4 years *pfff* doesn't mean a fucking thing. Secondly, I believe if you vote, you have no right to complain. People like to twist that around – they say, 'If you don't vote, you have no right to complain', but where's the logic in that? If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain. I, on the other hand, who did not vote, who in fact did not even leave the house on election day, am in no way responsible for what these people have done and have every right to complain about the mess you created that I had nothing to do with.”

    I would go further than that to say it would be your patriotic duty to not vote for someone as manifestly unfit as either of these two...."people". IN fact, you might even consider it your civic duty to persuade as many people as you can to sit it out as well. I just wonder at the reactions when you go door to door buttonholing people to do the nothing many of them were going to do anyway...
    Posting anonymously to preserve moderation

  93. Devil's Advocate by beady.el7512 · · Score: 0

    I'm not a Hillary fan. Really, I'm not. Still - let's look at this objectively. The two criticisms about Hillary's email server: 1) Not secure enough for the sensitive State Department emails it carried. 2) Wiped with extreme prejudice before any so-called "good guys" could look at it. Now ... if the servers DID contain sensitive data that mustn't be leaked, wouldn't it be a GOOD thing to wipe them thoroughly when they were no longer to be used? What's more, if that data actually WAS leaked - then even melting the hard drives to slag would do nothing to un-leak it. If those emails ARE "in the wild" then they CAN still be recovered. If they WEREN'T leaked - then concerns about the server's security were unfounded. What's more, every email has, after all, both a sender and a recipient. If Hillary was the ONLY one using a non-government-approved device, then copies of her emails should all be preserved on the devices of the people with whom she corresponded, no? Lastly: everyone who reads Slashdot knows **perfectly** well that hard-drive scrubbers are widely available, inexpensive, and ROUTINELY used to purge the contents of media whose "secrets" are no more sinister than the original user's credit card numbers and their nude selfies. I never discard media without doing a multi-pass wipe; reading any meaning into the specific software used for the wipe is REALLY reaching.

  94. Re:More political redirection by AK+Marc · · Score: 1

    Even if nothing on her server was "classified" much of it was sensitive. Using industry best practices to clean up old servers is proper, not proof of criminal activity.

    I can't believe the constant anti-tech anti-science politics on a tech site. When hillary uses encryption, it's proof of guilt. Great, so we should arrest everyone who uses encryption. Oops, Slashdot defaults to https, so most everyone reading this is committing a felony, according to the Hillary haters. Encryption and deleted file scrubbing. Best practices, unless you are Hillary. Then it's a felony.

  95. Re:More political redirection by jaygridley · · Score: 1

    Is that you Hillary?

  96. obstruction of justice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I am a lawyer and think this kind of thing would be a serious crime - obstruction of justice - if an investigation were ongoing at the time and the goal was to prevent investigators from accessing the emails.

  97. Re:More political redirection by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 1

    Whereas, for every comment you post like this, you're only getting 20 kopecks?

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  98. Doesn't matter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hillary Clinton will be President. Get over it. All those who wrote and published articles and blog posts against her will then regret opposing her. The internet does not forget (unless ordered by those who matter) and neither do the Rulers.

  99. Re:More political redirection by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 1

    Seems somebody accidentally hit "Troll" instead of "Insightful". Perhaps they'll realise their mistake and post in this thread to undo the damage.

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  100. security by siamesevodka · · Score: 1

    I used to work at a major Aerospace firm. We had annual meetings followed by a test to cover our knowledge concerning classified material. And we also had one covering one about proprietary intellectual property as well. It had a test as well. Both said if you were involved misuse of government secrets or company secrets you could count on prosecution to the fullest extent of the law. In some of the things not to do involved encryption.Nothing was to leave the property without the proper encryption.I'm sure Hillary was warned of this in briefings when she became secretary of state. What is interesting where I worked I never came in contact with proprietary intellectual property or government secrets. But as with the rest of the thousands of people who worked there like it or not you had to annualy go through the briefings and the tests. For her to feign she didn't know she was doing something wrong is a big stretch of the credibility. She should not seek public office and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. If Eric Snowden is guilty, she is guilty as hell.

  101. Clinton made only one error by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    She got caught. I am betting everything up to my last shirt that trump in his life did as worst thing as clinton. But he was not caught.

  102. Re: Too late, said the Hunter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This.

  103. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Your legal system is broken. Until you fix it none of this matters. She could have raped children in public and still not be in trouble.

  104. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Voting Trump is more like chopping off everyone's dick including your own so your wife doesn't get laid tonight.

    It achieves the immediate outcome, but the long term effects are far reaching and extend beyond just you and your wife.

  105. BleachBit by multi+io · · Score: 1

    Gowdy's comments just cater to IT novices who might think that there must be a bad cheap way and a good expensive way to wipe bits from a hard drive, when in fact there's just one way, and it's not particularly clever or complicated. People have written free programs to do it, so everybody uses them. It's just like thinking that anybody who uses a Teraflop/s machine must be using it to design nuclear bombs, until you realise that TFLOPs machines cost 100 bucks these days, so everybody uses them for everything, including writing birthday emails to grandma.

  106. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Don't be ridiculous. Laws meant for commoners do not apply to aristocracy.

  107. Re:More political redirection by mysidia · · Score: 1

    This isn't mud slinging. This is technology news about obfuscating forensic evidence in practice on a technology website.

    Disk sanitization of destroyed files is also standard in corporate IT with systems containing personal data or highly confidential data to safeguard against hackers recovering data and using for ID theft....

    Many people concerned about their privacy want to make sure that files they've deleted stay deleted.

  108. Re:More political redirection by mysidia · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Here's the problem -- Clinton deleted these emails AFTER they were requested from the House as part of an official investigation. She chose to print out everything she claimed was relevant (probably to avoid giving away metadata in headers, etc.)

    In other words, she willingly destroyed information she was required to hand over.

    The full Headers and all Metadata are part of the Record and part of the E-mail; If you are requested to hand over the e-mails: you have no right to exclude or remove headers, even if your standard e-mail software does not normally display the headers when you are reading the message.

  109. Only Terrorists use apps like BleachBit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That's what the FBI director said.

    (The woman who promised him a raise and an exemption from prosecution excepted of course.)
     

  110. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If you can't starve the beast, maybe you can poison it!

  111. Re:More political redirection by DaHat · · Score: 2

    I prefer option 3, they are pointing out the peculiarity that, given all the other shit she's pulled, in this one instance, she chose to follow best practices.

    "Your Honor, just because my client was in the vicinity of the shooting, drove to a near by store to buy bleach & laundry detergent, then drove home to wash his supposedly blood covered clothes, allegedly scrubbed gunshot residue from his hands, randomly decided to meticulously clean several of his firearms in no way demonstrates any consciousness of guilt, instead just best practices with regards to laundry and firearm maintenance"

    Yeah, see how that works.

  112. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If I had a nickel for every anti-Trump story, I'd have more nickels than grains of sand on Earth.

  113. Re:More political redirection by DaHat · · Score: 1

    Depending on the circumstances (such as happening after a subpoena) it's called consciousness of guilt.

    A great example of this is if you happen to use a firearm (you claim) in self defense, flee the scene, and not immediately report the incident to police, you are going to have a very difficult time mounting a self-defense case as your actions after the fact suggest you knew you did wrong.

  114. All this talk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    of yoga and bridesmaids is making me horny. I'd try to fix that using Tinder but now I'm worried about man-in-the-middle attacks.

  115. good! by markhahn · · Score: 1

    Why are we criticizing good IT practice? There is no logic to the "if you have nothing to hide, you will perform IT poorly". In fact, this implies that Clinton's email server might have actually been secure, assuming they paid as much attention to best practice back then, too.

  116. Very fuzzy thinking. by aussersterne · · Score: 1

    We are talking about two different things here. Secure retention and secure deletion.

    Clinton was very cavalier about secure retention.
    She was apparently very serious about secure deletion.
    And her argument is that the things retained with poor security were those of state, while those deleted with apparently deliberate security were personal.

    One could easily thus infer that she wasn't particularly concerned about protecting the secrets of state, but was very concerned about ensuring that her own secrets never saw the light of day. Whether or not that's the case is another matter, but you're conflating a whole several things together here that are in fact conceptually separate—retention, deletion, national, personal.

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  117. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yes, but stories are mostly fiction. What we have here are facts: facts that the left don't want anyone to know!

  118. Hmm... Destroying evidence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Is an actual crime. I sure hope they nail her to the wall.

    It isn't like her ISP or the recipients of the emails can't be subpoenaed for the actual emails.

  119. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    More like castration to avoid AIDS.

  120. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    We hate her because she belongs in prison, not running for President.

    How much are you getting paid to shill for her? Whatever it is, it's not enough to sell out your country to a criminal.

  121. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Especially if those files belong to the People of the United States, are subject to freedom of information act requests, and had previously been subpoenaed.

    Anyone but a Clinton or other royalty would have been in prison already.

  122. s-hillary clinton the liar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    if you think you can vote for who you want you are uninformed. The vote is Hackable, not Track-able!
    If I was Martha Stewart I would be SO Pissed!!! chillary has blood on her hands.

  123. Re:More political redirection by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 1

    Yoga bridesmaid pr0n? Here we come.

    --
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    Never been known to fail..."
  124. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Liberals are not left wing. Not only do you people spell the English language incorrectly but you don't even understand the meaning of the words you use.

    Yours faithfully,
    An economically Left-wing, socially conservative hater of all things liberal, God fearing monotheistic Englishman.

  125. Intent to commit a crime by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    But of course nothing will ever happen to the clinton crime family, just ask their long list of dead body guards

  126. Re:More political redirection by LoverOfJoy · · Score: 1

    Except that we know there were a lot of emails that were not personal but work related that she deleted because they were found on other coworkers' email accounts but not on hers. How many other (non-personal) emails she deleted but we haven't been able to recover (maybe sent to foreign entities) we may never know.

  127. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I use it because it can trivially remove flash cookies

  128. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yes, liberals are not left wing. The modern Democratic party is not Liberal.

  129. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If any of those emaols mention anything finance related they are required to be archived as per IRS tax laws. Maybe we can nail her like they got Capone.

  130. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Nor is it Left-wing.

  131. Damn Lies by Anna+Merikin · · Score: 2

    Which code (law scheme) are you talking about? Being in the Navy, the sailor in question was under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the rules of which are very different than for private citizens. For example, the US Constitution does not apply, except when the Supreme Court intervenes, which is rarely.

    Even as Secretary of State, Ms. Clinton was a private citizen, under different laws.

  132. Re:More political redirection by AK+Marc · · Score: 1

    The order of events given in TFA and those posting here filling in the gaps, seems to indicate a timing where she was asked to take a close look at her emails for Benghazi, then she wiped unrelated (possibly classified) emails, then completed her requirements with Benghazi, having 100% fulfilled her legal responsibilities into that investigation, then a new, separate investigation started into emails, after they were wiped.

    The car analogy would be, you went mudding in your car. Someone reported that you did so illegally on private land. While investigating that, you notice your other car is dirty. You have it cleaned while the first is off being investigated. Then someone sees your receipt for getting your car cleaned, and claims you were guilty the whole time, and that you cleaned your car is proof you did the same thing elsewhere in the second car, but wanted to hide it.

  133. Re:More political redirection by lsatenstein · · Score: 1

    This isn't mud slinging. This is technology news about obfuscating forensic evidence in practice on a technology website.

    Your statement is mudslinging.

    Whether the secure wipe was used as a simple matter of Best Practice, or was done for Nefarious reasons, is not known. So when the article makes judgements such as "When you're using BleachBit, it is something you really do not want the world to see." it becomes a political mudslinging story.
    I don't personally use this software, but I personally always securely wipe any drive which I'm done using. Even if there's nothing on there, even if it only contains "yoga emails" or etc.

    The disturbing thing to me is that this article is all but using the "If you have nothing to hide, you wouldn't use secure wipe methods" line of bullshit. Using strong encryption, secure wipe software, etc. should not be allowed to be seen as a "shady" or "suspicious" activity- it should rather be seen as the Intelligent and Normal way of doing things.

    You can be fairly certain that the FBI part-timer or other consultants who set up the Clinton server(s)s incorporated bitbleach or wipedisk in their backup procedures. The Clintons are not CS graduates, but relied on their computer support staff for maintenance.

    Privacy in her level of government representation surely required such a tactic.

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  134. Use it daily. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Apparently no one here has heard of CCleaner for Windows systems. It wipes user data accumulated during the course of internet usage, especially browsers. Bleachbit's usage is very common among Linux users as a CCleaner replacement. I use it daily to keep things tidy. It frees up resources by doing a simple delete of useless files. There are other settings that allow multiple overwrites to destroy data and make it (supposedly) unrecoverable. How many times have we heard of used government hard drives making it out to salvager's without even a simple delete being done? Two things come to mind. One, we don't know the circumstances, using Bleachbit is not damning. Two, the FBI has ways of recovering nearly all overwrite schemes. In other words, if they had been concerned about file destruction they would have simply physically destructed the drives and replaced them with fresh drives. More information is needed on this while Hillary is busily working away at things that are truly frightening.

  135. A possible Hillary Endorsement? by billd10 · · Score: 0

    If BleachBit is willing to donate enough to the Clinton Foundation, maybe Hillary will become their spokesperson. Her testimonials are sure to be a big hit with other wrongdoers wanting to cover their tracks.

  136. Re:More political redirection by siamesevodka · · Score: 1

    I don't know if you can say the lawyers were doing a good job of protecting her.By their actions alone this could be argued obstruction of justice. Your not doing a good job of protecting anybody if you choose to obstruct by deleting the evidence. You are speculating that she had nothing seriously wrong on that server, but by deleting you eliminate the chance for discovery.There is just to much linkage between the Clinton Foundation and the Office of Secretary of State. The conflict between these two entities being run through a server in her sole control without any safeguards until after the fact [bleachbit] is like closing the gate after the horse got out. I think there is a pretty strong case for an obstruction charge and not a misdemeanor one.

  137. To Quote Patton: Every God Damn Day by tmjva · · Score: 1

    Yes I set bleachbit to run after boot when I turn it on every day.

    Not because I care about any emails. It the crazy 100MB of crap browsers leave behind from the previous day. I don't bother to shred, just want to free the space. I guess it improves performance too.

    Yes it's probably pointless when you have multi-GB of space. It is because I remember HP7920 disc drives the size of a dishwashers with 50MB disc platters.

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    http://empire.openmpe.com/
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  138. Re:More political redirection by richieb · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't any email she sent/received from the State Department be also archived on SD servers? You can delete emails from your outbox, but they don't disappear from my inbox.
    So any official emails must be available in State Department archives.

    --
    ...richie - It is a good day to code.
  139. None of the Above by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'm less concerned about the destruction of evidence and more concerned that even though we know she's committing criminal acts, people are still supporting her for President.

    The whole Clinton / Trump fiasco is a prime example of why the US political system needs a "None of the Above" vote. Right now, the only votes Trump is going to get will be from the Anybody but Clinton camp. Likewise, I know people who are going to vote for Clinton simply because Trump scares them. Neither candidate will make a viable president. Look at our choices, we are deciding to give control of our country to either a known career criminal megalomaniac, or a known racist nutcase. The system is so heavily stacked against third party candidates that they will never get enough votes to mean anything.

  140. Were her servers ever hacked? by BrianMahoney1357 · · Score: 1

    Maybe I missed it but I can't remember reading that her servers were hacked. If that's the case, maybe she was on to something. Who would think to look for private servers? I'm thinking that she did it for security, not for illicit activities. If they were never hacked, it worked. Besides that, who set up her servers? Pretty damn sure Hillary didn't do it on her own. Whoever set her system up also had access to all of those emails. There must have been at least one back door. Are there copies of the missing emails somewhere? Having her own servers isn't the problem, from my point of view. Who set them up and who might have backed up those drives is what I see as the big deal about all of this. I'd want to check every person who knew about them and every person who helped her create/wipe/use the servers. If there was anything in the emails, that's pretty good fodder for blackmail and influencing her decisions later on.

  141. Re:More political redirection by AthanasiusKircher · · Score: 1

    Yes, I'm assuming that's how the FBI must have recovered a lot of the "missing" ones. Given how the server was wiped, I'm not sure what their other source would be.

  142. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Spell the English language?"
    At first I thought maybe you were referring to the word English, then I realized the subject was "the language," and as far as I know, it's not possible to misspell a language. Ironic...

  143. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Sure, because non-personal emails just originate out of thin air and don't exist anywhere else but her server. Not in any logs anywhere. Not in any intermediate SMTP government servers. Certainly not in the outbox of the people who sent the message.

  144. Political privilege by ebvwfbw · · Score: 1

    Nobody seems to be mentioning that if the FBI wanted any of our E-mail servers, we wouldn't be asked so politely and we wouldn't be allowed to turn it over when we damn well pleased. They would probably be there at 4 AM, break the door down, shoot the dogs, trample over the children's toys, they may shoot you or at the very least rough you up, put your kids in handcuffs. They'd also take whatever the hell they wanted. Including that 1970s Coleco football game that hasn't even been turned on in decades, after all, it's a computer... sort of. Take whatever they wanted. I understand that can even be silverware. Actual silverware, not the plated crap. Then you might get it back some day. When they're good and ready, maybe.

    You can bet that there wouldn't be any FBI agent testifying that you were just very very careless, or any of the horseshit that they said. I don't know anyone that actually believed she should not be in jail. Where it any of us that did anything like she did, they would be at the trial - hang 'em, hang 'em high. There is no doubt, we have a mountain of evidence. Convict and sleep well at night knowing you convicted someone justly. We'd never get out.

  145. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No it isn't, I have been working in legal for about 15 years and it has always been policy to do secure wiping/ overwriting when drives get decommissioned

  146. It does not matter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If she would not have deleted her emails securely they would have said she was irresponsible.
    This story would have been spun anyway.

  147. Here is something I don't understand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Where did her classified emails go?
    I mean she must have had another email account for the classified stuff no?

  148. you mean not ‘Like with a cloth or something by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/19/hillary-clinton-wiping-email-server-cloth-or-somet

  149. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    the best practice is to turn over all emails to the government authority. there are strict rules and policy in place that require the sec of state to perform this action. deleting the emails is not part of that action. why she is not in prison is another corruption discussion.

  150. Re: More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    you are not sec of state. you're "best practice" is not would be different if you were.

  151. Trump trumps this by bobbutts · · Score: 1

    I'd care if there were a viable choice, but Trump is the worst candidate in my lifetime and it's not even close.

  152. Re:More political redirection by MercTech · · Score: 1

    It isn't mud slinging to point out that an average Joe who did what Hillary perpetrated would be prosecuted and jailed by now,
    A> Use of private email for official business is against federal regulations.
    B> Erasing official emails in violation of data retention requirements is a violation of federal regulations.
    C> Using private emails to circumvent security requirements of official email servers is against federal regulations.
        Face it, if Hillary were not part of the privileged elite; she would have been in jail a year ago.

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  153. Re:More political redirection by Coren22 · · Score: 1

    https://benghazi.house.gov/sit...

    So, in your mind, deleting emails under a congressional subpoena is normal practice and it is out of the norm to fault Hillary for doing it?

    I work in the field you describe, and I gotta tell you, I wouldn't dare run that utility on a mail server after a subpoena was submitted for the data.

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  154. Re: More political redirection by Rakarra · · Score: 1

    We hate her because she belongs in prison, not running for President.

    Funny! Still waiting for those amazing revelations that will finally tell us about these horrible crimes she's supposedly been doing.
    Still waiting.. still waiting.
    Thank God the election is over in two months, but I'm not looking forward to the following four years of the same bullshit.

  155. Re:More political redirection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Coren22 everyone knows you're a liar with no good job. You post 10 a.m to 5 p.m. M_F on slashdot living on welfare subsidy. Your part time job at Burger King on weekends plus 6 to midnite M-F is not working in computers and you got it by being a mentally defective retard with outism/assburger problems hahahaha. You never post on weekends and you go to your night wageslave minimum wage job everyday by 5-6 p.m. Seriously do you think we're stupid and you could deceive us? Your profile and post history gives it all away. We also know you're a libeling stalking lazy miserable troll https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9577115&cid=52791605/ from your same profile too. Do you think anyone believes a mental defective loser like you that's been repeatedly caught lying publicly here? Guess again. You're delusional.

  156. It's like this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Say any other individual is accused of having child porn on your computer. Said individual takes their computer and together with their legal team "goes through all files for any files matching the criteria" Then after a handful of files that prove no guilt are retrieved the drive is wiped clean with bleachbit. I don't see how she gets away with this why not just submit the whole computer to the fbi, like they would have done in any other case busting down the door at 4 am with a full SWAT team. Simply ridiculous.

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