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Why are they scanned pdfs of printed copies of the original e-mails? It's clear in several of these e-mails there are hyperlinks, which are completely lost.
by fineIllregister 11y ago
Why are they scanned pdfs of printed copies of the original e-mails?
It's clear in several of these e-mails there are hyperlinks, which are completely lost.
- ForHackernews 11y agoFrequently when the government is forced to release documents by FOIA requests, they do in the most deliberately inconvenient way possible. Previous example: https://www.propublica.org/blog/item/a-readers-guide-to-the-sarah-palin-emails https://www.propublica.org/blog/item/a-readers-guide-to-the-... > The emails, which presumably could fit on a few discs, now fit in six boxes and weigh 250 pounds per set. Journalists have trekked to Juneau to pick up them up. (Mother Jones notes that the state is helpfully lending journalists “hand trucks” for hauling the boxes out.)
- brbsix 11y agoPer her request, the emails didn't leave her server in digital form. They were printed out, 55,000 pages of them. It's akin to something like paying your property tax in pennies. Probably served as a nice "fuck you" to have them delivered as such. It also makes any sort of meaningful forensic auditing impossible.