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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?"
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.
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.
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You are welcome on my lawn.
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.
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.
This isn't mud slinging. This is technology news about obfuscating forensic evidence in practice on a technology website.
Just yesterday Johnson said he *opposed* a Carbon Tax at a rally in Concord, NH
Part of the Second American Revolution!
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.
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.
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?
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.
No sir, they were not.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/...
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