A Word On Emails

So Senator Leahy is asking the White House to turn over emails over the issue of the recent firings of 8 US attorneys. Senator Leahy made a false statement that I think you should hear: "You can't erase e-mails, not today. They've gone through too many servers," said Leahy, D-Vermont Those e-mails are there, they just don't want to produce them. We'll subpoena them if necessary. I've got a teenage kid in my neighborhood that can go get 'em for them."

While the White House is probably stalling for various reasons, if I want an email gone, it's gone. You may be able to get that email from the person I sent it to or off of their mail server, but if I wanted to, I could create a secure email server within a few hours that would wipe any evidence of that email ever going through the server. It's not difficult. Being that it's a White House mail server, I imagine that their email administrators would have extra security features on it that would make my security policies seem like kindergarten stuff.

Email and communication security can sometimes get very complicated and finding emails does sometimes take time to retrieve. But don't think that if a competent administrator didn't want to, he couldn't make a server that was practically invisible in terms of forensics.

Travis
travis@rightwinglunatic.com