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Edward Snowden Kills Team Trump's Conspiracy Theory By Explaining How The FBI Can Quickly Comb Through Email (geekwire.com)

Posted by msmash on from the snowden-tech-support dept.

FBI director James Comey told Congress Sunday that the further investigation of emails related to Hillary Clinton didn't turn up anything that would cause the bureau to recommend charges against her. The FBI had reviewed over 650,000 emails under nine days. Upon hearing this, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump and his supported started to question whether the FBI could go through all those emails in such a short period of time. We will never know for sure until the FBI explains its process to us all (which is unlikely to happen), so people turned to Edward Snowden over the weekend for answers. And Mr. Snowden didn't disappoint. From a report on GeekWire: How easy would it be to cull out the duplicate emails? Outspoken journalist Jeff Jarvis posed that question to Snowden in a tweet, and got a quick response: "Drop non-responsive To:/CC:/BCC:, hash both sets, then subtract those that match. Old laptops could do it in minutes-to-hours."

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  1. RegEx, it's a hell of a drug. by Kichigai+Mentat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seriously, anyone who's ever had to do de-duplication or pattern matching or anything like that could have told you how easy this is to do. It's almost like computers are good for this kind of stuff!

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    1. Re:RegEx, it's a hell of a drug. by thegarbz · · Score: 5, Funny

      Seriously, anyone who's ever had to do de-duplication or pattern matching or anything like that could have told you how easy this is to do.

      So not a Trump supporter then. RegEx? That's just a Clinton propaganda piece. Computers too good? They are made in China. Nothing good comes from China. You're just a paid shill standing between us an a great America.

  2. Re:Unless we know the number of non-dupes. by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 1, Funny

    The point is that Trump's supporters have no solid evidence that there was not enough time to review the emails.

    You used the words "Trump supporters" and "solid evidence" in the same sentence -- funny. :-)

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  3. Re:Unless we know the number of non-dupes. by AmiMoJo · · Score: 2, Funny

    They seem to prefer these things are reviewed by independent, unbiased reddit users armed with powerful tools like Google and meme generators, oh and of course a pirate copy of Photoshop to put together the infographic spam.

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  4. Re:Drone Snowden's ass already by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wait. Who did she kill?

    Seriously? If you believe the Republicans and those fostering conspiracy theories: Vince Foster, Seth Rich, everyone in the Benghazi consulate, etc... Just Google: who did hillary clinton kill Of course, there's *no* proof of anything - and if she *did* do all that *and* got away with it, then she's a serious bad-ass and wouldn't we actually want her as President to go up against Putin, etc... :-)

    Conspiracy Theorists Won't Stop Accusing The Clintons Of Murder

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