Explain this to me like I'm a second-grader

As an addendum to the last post: The IT guy isn't going to use an email address on her server. He's going to use the email address that he's comfortable with. Thinking that there should be emails from him on that server is pure stupidity.

 

Hey, dipshit ... "her" IT guy worked for the fucking Department of State.

 

On the official State Department server? That's where he worked. Why is that stupid?

 

I don't know. I don't even know that he would ever have e-mailed her. But the State Department computer guy never e-mailed anyone in four years? Really?

 

What's your point?

You're asking for emails about Clinton's server. Why would they exist?

As I noted before: EMAILS ARE NOT SECURE!!!!

Seriously, that's not just some ubiquitous statement with no reference. It is a FACT. Why would someone that knows this very simple fact be sending emails to Hillary Clinton about her server which would create security holes. That is why it's stupid.

You aren't reading: Trudeau explained that the department has searched for copies of Pagliano’s emails in a backup known as a .pst file...

That means they are looking for Outlook backup files. If they don't exist does that mean that the person never sent an email?

You say that you don't know whether the guy would ever send her an email and still think it is some sort of controversy that there are no outlook backups!

Chances are, he used a web based client to send and receive emails. I don't know what the state department has for configuration, but I'll wager that the individual likely found it easier to work with that and attempt some secure communication than it is to work with Outlook.

 

They have some emails from him to other people, from the files of the recipients, so they know he used email. They just don't have his email file.

 

It's probably on a thumb drive buried with Vince Foster.

 

Rinse and repeat every goddamn day for 25 years, amplified by the megaphones of the right wing screech machine.

 

First of all, I'm not asking for any e-mails. They are the subject of a request for discovery in a lawsuit. Second, no, they are not asking for e-mails about Clinton's server. They are asking for all work-related emails sent to or received by Clinton's former aide, Bryan Pagliano, between 2009 and 2013 (that's from the AP story, BTW).

 

Correction: They don't have an Outlook backup file. This is not the same as saying they don't have his emails.

If the guy used web based interface, there would be no PST file. If the guy used his phone, there would be no PST file.

The guy works in IT. I'd be surprised if there were all that many work related emails. Depending upon his daily tasks, requests would be handled through an internal ticketing system. Other conversation would likely be handled via IM.

Seriously, this is trumped up outrage based on the fact there is extremely little knowledge about the individual's task as well as how the IT industry functions as a whole.

 

Thumb drives? Nah. Floppy disks, perhaps.

 

You absolutely CAN send encrypted emails from phones.