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Oversight Orders Reddit To Preserve Deleted Posts In Clinton Investigation (thehill.com)
HockeyPuck writes: The House Oversight Committee has ordered Reddit to preserve deleted posts believed to be written by Paul Combetta, an IT technician the committee suspects may have deleted Hillary Clinton emails that were under subpoena. This follows up on an earlier report on reddit users' findings. Reddit users found that Combetta, through the username "StoneTear," requested help in relation to retaining and purging email messages after 60 days, and requested advice on how to remove a "VERY VIP" individual's email address from archived content. The Hill says in its report: "It's unclear what, exactly, the committee will be able to learn from the information Reddit preserves. According to the company's public policy for handling official requests, it maintains basic subscriber information, like IP logs, which identify the computer used to access a site. According to the policy, Reddit can maintain deleted records -- like a user's account -- for 90 days if it receives an official preservation order. Otherwise, the information will be subject to Reddit's 'normal retention or destruction schedules.'"
people won't learn how to ask questions without giving up personal info. or does reddit ban tor?
captcha: toasted. indeed.
Both sides are a shit show in their own special ways. At this point I just want a comfy chair and some popcorn.
And then when questioned joke about wiping them with a cloth.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
If Reddit manages to do what the FBI could not I will pack up my shit, sell my home, and move to Russia. When we must depend on the unwashed mob for justice, it's time to call it quits.
At this point it's really important that Combetta is put on suicide watch and given a bodyguard. A lot of people affiliated with the Clintons end up in, how do you say... "unusual circumstances", like getting murdered by a 'robber' that actually didn't take anything, or 'committing suicide' by shooting themselves in the back twice.
We've given up on the old argument that IP addresses don't uniquely determine the computer, I see?
How is it unclear? IP logs are a smoking gun.
It's only "unclear" to biased and corrupt Demo Sycophants in the so-called Press (now propaganda bureaus) and the running-dogs who support them.
Has anyone informed them about the related posts on Slashdot too? As was reported the other day, Stonetear is a user here and has posted things that might be relevant to the investigation.
Why does that username look familiar?..... I might have seen this guy on r/techsupport.... That's funny. "Dear internet, how do I do my job?" Correction, "How do I do my job badly?"
So, what was the timing of the Reddit requests?
Was it before or after this thing became an issue under investigation.
Before could be just normal incompetent it support.
After could be a nice, neat evidence trail for a coverup.
Dumber things have happened.
Hopefully it's the first, but if it's the second, the trail would go thru the IT guy.
Physical protection for him might be prudent.
It's unclear what, exactly, the committee will be able to learn from the information Reddit preserves
or why it would be applicable to a closed criminal investigation that resulted in no indictment and no charges. at this point its just a political fishing expedition to slander the character of a presidential candidate thats already generally reviled by Americans yet unaccountably still able to secure her parties candidate nomination.
maybe if republicans had spent the time it took to conduct four hearings into benghazi more prudently by...say...building a functional candidate and forming meaningful foreign and domestic policy that address genuine issues in the upcoming decade, we wouldnt be stuck voting for a criminal in a twelve thousand dollar potato sack that lectures ad nauseum on the middle class.
Good people go to bed earlier.
"investigation" They keep saying this word. I don't think they know what it means.
Apparently from his reddit account he was in to furry shit. I really want the House Oversight Committee to ask him "sir, could you explain to the Committee what you meant by 'yiffing' in some of your comments?"
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
I am a network engineer and I've worked in the I.T. field for over 30 years, and I specialize in Computer Forensics.
The very fact that he even asked such a question is very revealing about their true capabilities in government... I'm not impressed.
about being caught making in 'Soviet Russia...' jokes and saying 'Frist Post' and other variations.
Johnson is the only other candidate on the ballot in Georgia - aside from Trump and Clinton. He's polling in the double digits here - the first time ever for a Libertarian or any third party.
I'm voting for him for POTUS. And then Democrat for everything else I can. The Republicans have pissed me off so much with their brinkmanship over the last 8 years and then to insult us by blaming everything on the Democrats. The Republicans have failed in showing me that they are capable of governing this country. And all the incumbents are Republicans so it's also an anti-incumbent vote for me.
I get the nonsense that I'll be throwing my vote away but its insane to vote for someone you don't want.
We'll probably go all Republican because of the Bible Thumpers - all you gotta say down here is that you're Conservative and against abortion and gay marriage and for unrestricted gun rights and you're in - as long as you have a 'R' next to your name.
The Christians seem to have forgotten:
And I don't recall there being any sort of exceptions.
Hillary's for prison!
The relevance is that the FBI granted immunity to the only two people in this saga who knew what really happened to the government-owned records, and those people took the fifth when testifying. So, it looks like an official cover-up.
FBI Director Comey said that "no reasonable prosecutor" would have prosecuted the case, yet he grants immunity from prosecution. Why? If no one is going to prosecute, then immunity makes no sense. The purpose of granting immunity to a small fish is so you can prosecute a bigger fish.
Further, why have these IT folks gone even beyond their protection against immunity to refuse to testify? What could they possibly say that would be prosecutable? Nothing.
Everyone is staying quiet. As long as no one says anything, everyone is protected.
"We receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us" - Faraday
" like IP logs, which identify the computer used to access a site. "
More like the router or VPN he's connected to.
How is it unclear? IP logs are a smoking gun.
You've been downvoted because slashdot users are too smart to believe that, and indeed you're probably being sarcastic, but IP logs are indeed a smoking gun. By themselves they leave reasonable doubt, but combined with other evidence they are convincing.
To believe he didn't do it, you'd have to believe that there's reasonable doubt someone else, who used a distinctive name that is the same as one he's used, used his IP address to request information that is relevant to his profession and job, on the day after a congressional order dealing with the subject of the requested information.
Any part of that leaves wiggle room, but together...smoking gun.
It's only "unclear" to biased and corrupt Demo Sycophants in the so-called Press (now propaganda bureaus) and the running-dogs who support them.
You need to stop watching Fox News and get outside more.
I find it funny that the House Of Representatives is going to read Reddit messages and try to make sense of them! This is the same House of Representatives that doesn't believe in global warming. The same house that would push a law of "Intelligent Design' to be taught nationwide if they could get away with it. The same House that wants a back-door (yes I know it is being pushed by Diane in the Senate but there are those in the House that want it too) to encryption technology! The single dumbest organization in the world (second to none).
I find this is all very very funny and sad!
I'm getting the fuck out
I'm just laughing.
A House Oversight Committee.
To me, that just sounds like a committee that looks and sees what it can forget to check or do, not a committee that watches and manages a set of people.
I know that, technically, the word also means to manage people but... that's not what I think when I read it.
And the summary headline just makes it worse. It makes it sounds like it's happened by accident.
The posts show that the guy knew he was deleting stuff in the face of a direct order by the authorities not to do that. That means he's going to jail.
Since you're not buying Windows 10 and funneling more net worth to Billy Gates, how many children are you personally infecting with malaria, you sick fuck?
Captcha: Steaming. As in a steaming pile, which is what you're selling.
This thread is the only one where I consistently get a 'secure connection cannot be established' two or three times before the page will load. ONLY this story on /., no other story gives this behavior.
She knew it was a laughable notion to begin with, and only used it to plant a thought in the peoples' minds while she was campaigning. She knew we to drop it. The conservatives latched onto it, and as usual, wasted a whole shitload of money having it investigated.
Please tell me you're smart enough to tell the difference.
This who situation has been badly misrepresented. Did none of you bother to check the original Reddit post to see what it said? It said: "Hello all- I may be facing a very interesting situation where I need to strip out a VIP’s (VERY VIP) email address from a bunch of archived email that I have both in a live Exchange mailbox, as well as a PST file,” stonetear wrote. “Basically, they don’t want the VIP’s email address exposed to anyone, and want to be able to either strip out or replace the email address in the to/from fields in all of the emails we want to send out. I am not sure if something like this is possible with PowerShell, or exporting all of the emails to MSG and doing find/replaces with a batch processing program of some sort. Does anyone have experience with something like this, and/or suggestions on how this might be accomplished?” From http://burningbird.net/republi... Any of you that work with email know that what he's talking about is removing the email address from metadata. Why would you do so? Primarily because you don't want the public to get their hands on the email address. Clinton's email address was already known at that time. She was no longer using it, the Committee knew it, and it wasn't relevant to the FOIA request (email metadata is typically not included in FOIA requests). This was _not_ about deleting emails. We don't even really know if this was about Clinton, or if the writer is Combetta. I thought /. used to be full of geeks? What happened?
What are the ramifications if there is an investigation and it's found that, even once, some useful information was found on reddit?
Society as a whole could be one vast conspiracy if it turns out one can ask a question and get a useful answer on that website . . .
He wasn't just wiping the data, he was going in and removing HIllary's name from the GAL that contained the emails.
That's breaking the law. He knew it.
That the howling trilby festooned neckbards of Reddit were validated by the US House of Representatives in their Holy Quest to prevent a woman from sitting in the oval office. The excited collective splurt of jism, lightly tinged with the lingering odor of bile, will be smelled for many months to come, I'm sure.
more email nonsense
I mean if Hillary can delete with impunity, Reddit will without repercussions as well. The cesspool of liberal bullshit needs to go the way of Yahoo. Straight into /dev/null.
It was a Clinton campaign worker that started that
INCORRECT. It was somebody who supported clinton (not anyone in her campaign, just a disgruntled voter like anyone else who at the time resented Obama's victory). They had nothing to do with her or her campaign, except wanting her to win and launching a bullshit lawsuit born of sour grapes. Clinton, her campaign, the Democratic party, and anyone with a shred of sense had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with it.
Trumps endless lies notwithstanding.
The Obama justice department chose not to prosecute her for mishandling classified info.
The justice department did NOT investigate all the lies she told the congress while under oath, or the obstruction of justice that occurred both in hiding info from congress and the courts, or the violation of FOIA laws. The congress has issued orders to the FBI to look into the multiple incidents of blatant purjury, which happened on live national television (C-SPAN) and the Obama justice dept is dragging its feet. In fact, the congress has had to issue subpoenas to the Obama FBI for hiding data from congress! This mess is not going away any time soon. The legislative branch of government feels its most basic Constitutional oversight role has been interfered with by the executive branch contrary to the plain text of the law. This is Watergate type stuff even if the mainstream media refuses to cover it because the Democrats are the ones accused this time.
By trying to rig the legal system to help Hillary get elected to try to boost the Obama legacy, Obama may not have done Hillary and real favors. Consider what the state of affairs will be if she loses:
(a) by not having a court case, there has not been a "conclusion" which means she can be charged and prosecuted at any future time by a hypothetical Trump adminstration justice dept (within the statute of limitations). Double-jeopardy rules do not apply because she's not yet been prosecuted a first time. If she'd been prosecuted (even intentionally poorly) and ruled "not guilty" then she'd truly be off the hook.
(b) by not having a court case, she's not technically in a position to get a pardon from an outgoing Obama either.
Dodging the FBI and Justice department is a real big dice roll. It gave Hillary a big benefit of not running while being prosecuted, but there's a real downside if she loses. It's one reason we should expect team Clinton to stop at NOTHING in the attempt to win this election; they have FAR more on the line here than almost any candidate in history.
Not sure why everyone needs to misdirect and discuss Trump as if he had a shitsbit of anything to do with this.
There were exactly 3 emails that had sections marked with (c) indicating classified, though it was meaningless without the related headers.
Additionally, zero of those 3 emails actually contained classified information.
You nailed it. The republican's fatal flaw is their lack of imagination.
oh jesus, first female president, Nixonian ratfucking framing- Sure, it looks like a gun with wisps of smoke coming up, but ask yourself if you are really sure who put it there. Yes, the FBI still has work to do. (as if)
But being seriously debate/logical- All I'm really saying is that when the stakes are high (are there higher stakes?) you filter the world of machiavellians and find some pretty fucking skilled wigglers. Or at least that's how I get to my reasonable doubt.
Clinton is a square shooter. Clinton 2016!
I appreciate what Johnson is doing, and most of what he stands for - I even voted for him in the last election.
However his stances on Immigration and labor/jobs have always concerned me, Johnson is a libertarian, and the libertarian position on labor is ridiculously business-friendly, and the immigration position is akin to open borders.
After watching entertainment and other companies like Disney exploit H1-Bs, listening to tech cos cry wolf on the lack of STEM-qualified applicants to justify their actions, outsourcing countless manufacturing/tech/service/etc jobs, I've had enough. Fixing the artificially-depressed labor market,and ending immigrant labor exploitation are important priorities for me this year - and they may have the side effect of reducing crime and helping with some social issues - a community that works is a community that works.
Johnson isn't going to fix immigration and labor, it's against his party's principles.
If people are using it for advice about things like IT, then it's obviously not an American company, with any American employees (subject to TLA pressure), and none of it's servers would be located in US jurisdictions. So this "House Committee," whoever they are can either blow, or get the records from the NSA already.
I know Slashdot is American, which is why nobody posts interesting security-related questions here. If Reddit are getting such questions, then obviously they're not American.
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