House Oversight orders Reddit to preserve deleted posts in Clinton investigation

[Jimbo101]

Here we go again.

House Oversight orders Reddit to preserve deleted posts in Clinton investigation

The Hill

The House Oversight Committee has ordered Reddit to preserve deleted posts believed to be written by an IT technician the committee suspects may have deleted Hillary Clinton emails that were under subpoena.

Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) confirmed that the committee has issued a preservation order and that Reddit is “cooperating.”

The order "has the weight of law, you can't destroy things and hope things magically get erased,” he told The Hill Wednesday.

At issue is whether an employee of the Denver, Colo.-based tech firm that managed Clinton’s server sought advice on how to digitally alter the address lines of emails thought to be from the former secretary of State — the day after the State Department had agreed to provide certain Clinton emails to the Benghazi Committee.

[phallon]

1. Can this prick do this?

I hope reddit tells Chaffass to stick it. I thought we had a first amendment.

[NCTraveler]

2. "Here we go again"

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

3. They need to take the cost of all this crap out of his pay

Hopefully the people of Utah fire his tax payer money wasting arse.

[apnu]

4. I've been in IT for almost two decades

In my early days in the 90s there were user groups for us "Bobs" but to access them, we had to "wave a dead chicken" over an email to prove we knew what we were doing. In this context, to join these groups, we had to forge email headers in the SMTP stream. Which is trivial once you know how to do it. Its not even hacking, its pathetically easy.

So I'm dumbfounded at the state of IT if kids these days need to go on Reddit, to find out how to change email headers. Out in the clear, where its easy to ID people, especially when knowing that the client or user you're working for/with happens to be famous and/or powerful and in the news.

I shake my head at that stupidity. This is a mind boggling dumb thing to do.