Forget the BleachBit, now I need EYE BLEACH...!
Posted on 08/25/2016 2:32:14 PM PDT by Zakeet
South Carolina Representative Trey Gowdy appeared on Fox News today and disclosed new details about the Clinton email scandal that seem to indicate intent to destroy evidence. Per the clip below, Gowdy reveals that Clinton used "BleachBit" to erase the "personal" emails from her private server.
For those not familiar with the software, BleachBit is intended to help users delete files in a way to "prevent recovery" and "hide traces of files deleted." Per the BleachBit website:
Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster.
During his appearance on Fox, Gowdy clearly indicates that Clinton's use of BleachBit undermines her claims that she only deleted innocuous "personal" emails from her private server.
"If she considered them to be personal, then she and her lawyers had those emails deleted. 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."
"When you're using BleachBit, it is something you really do not want the world to see."
Gowdy also questioned whether Hillary considered "Clinton Foundation" emails to be "personal" and, if not, asked why the FBI's investigation revealed minimal emails about Foundation-related topics.
Link to video in article Rep Gowdy Hillary Clinton is a 'habitual, serial liar' - Fox News
So Dear Reader, we leave it to you to decide whether - like FBI Director Comey - you see no "intent" to hide or obfuscate any of the deleted emails; or - like Rep. Gowdy - you see the facts as proving Hillary Clinton's intent to ensure no trace was left of these harmless emails about yoga routines or wedding plans.
Why would it be hard to put it on her server? I don’t know how these things work?
Please. Someone on her crack IT team will be blamed for this. Hillary never “touched” her server. It’s all someone else’s fault.
I was joking, (only maybe less than I thought). To put an application on a server like that requires administrative access. Somebody with that had to want it there. A hacker wouldn't bother - if he or she had administrative access there are FAR more interesting things to do than install a disk wiper.
This gets a bit technical, so forgive me. It was a Microsoft Exchange server, by all accounts. Deletion of individual emails doesn't actually involve file deletion - they're kept in a large database that is the mail store. If they're exported to a file for some reason, that's different. Mail administrators often do that to give the user a package of emails in a file, which remains on the server after it's copied to media that is given to the user. They'll do that to satisfy a subpoena, for example.
You'd use a wiper to delete those export files, if you needed to. Or, you can use this wiping software on the entire mail store, which is what I suspect happened. That's very naughty indeed. At that point all you have left is whatever emails you've already extracted and stored off for, say, a legal discovery process. If you didn't do that to all of them and you've wiped the mail store, you've covered your tracks very nicely. What the software they're describing actually does is delete files and write new bits over the old area, delete them, rewrite, delete, etc. It makes the original "fingerprint" impossible to recover...well, not impossible. Just very difficult and expensive, and you'd need somebody really good to do it. Which the FBI certainly has.
I hope that's not complete gibberish. There are other ways to recover email that entail access to outside routers and logs. Once it's sent, there are bits of it all over the Internet. Again, you'd have to have deep access and be very, very good to recover email that way. The NSA is very, very, very good.
Thank you. That was really nice to take the time to explain this to me and whoever else wanted to understand. I also appreciate of you not making fun that I didn’t catch on to the joke/sarcasm. Blessings!
Forget the BleachBit, now I need EYE BLEACH...!
Excellent!
You just broke my computer with my fist.
Exactly. Comey mentioned that the lawyers wiped their laptops, but she gave the files to them on a thumb drive. Did they recover that from the lawyers offices or even ask them where it was ?
LOLOLOL!!! 100%
Outlook uses .pst or .ost files in every environment I’ve seen.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Introduction-to-Outlook-Data-Files-pst-and-ost-6d4197ec-1304-4b81-a17d-66d4eef30b78
Karma Sutra (grin)
I have wondered this often. It is so neglegent that it is an embarrassment to anyone who would be in I.T.
I am beginning to think it was deliberate so information could be sold but instead of a briefcase of money and microfilm its a donation to the Clinton Foundation and you receive an IP address to a insecure server that just happens to have the info you need.
Plausible deniability - seems to have worked so far.
The next link we need is the payouts to the super delegates and how that all worked.
It was a foregone conclusion she had the supers delegates from the get go.
To me its pretty obvious how you make things happen - you pay money for it - just like anything else in life.
Money Makes it Happen
I can almost guarantee you she didn't leave that to chance.
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Why would it be hard to put it on her server?
I was joking, (only maybe less than I thought). To put an application on a server like that requires administrative access. Somebody with that had to want it there. A hacker wouldn’t bother - if he or she had administrative access there are FAR more interesting things to do than install a disk wiper.
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Actually, it *should* be QUITE hard. In the ‘real world’, this would be a classified server and subject to the limitations thereof...no papers in\out of security, certainly no ‘unapproved’ apps installed on the server (let alone the documentation and sign-off required to even BEGIN that discussion).
IOW, it should have been almost IMPOSSIBLE to do what she did (or had done) w/out SOMEONE coming down on her\gang for those violations.
Intent much?
Now, now, you know all she did was what every good housewife would do and that was to use bleach on that rag to wipe it clean.
Yep, only now we learn that the guy who did have administrative access may not even have had a security clearance at all. This just keeps getting better and better. Well, the FBI’s on it. That’s a relief...not...
The head of BleachBit is supposed to be on Stuart Varney’s show on Fox Business Channel on Monday. Varney’s show starts at 6 a.m. Pacific and 9 a.m. east coast time. He covered it a bit today and they’re discussing it on Outnumbered on FNC now.
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