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What amazes me besides him using familiar handle is that even after the investigation he left all those reddit posts up. Then he decides to try and delete them
by Mendenhall 10y ago
What amazes me besides him using familiar handle is that even after the investigation he left all those reddit posts up. Then he decides to try and delete them now after they are found.
- pg_is_a_butt 10y agofun fact, your cell phone provider doesn't scan your text messages for "keywords" until you try to delete them... maybe he thought reddit worked the same way.
- Gargoyle 10y agoDeleting them now is just stupid panic. They've been found, they've been archived, they've been reported. The only thing deleting them does is make him look guilty as hell even if he's done nothing wrong at all.
- eli 10y agoOr didn't think it was a big deal but was tired of redditors blowing up his inbox
- imjustsaying 10y agoThe guy never had any idea what he was doing. He made a help thread about how to find and replace text.
- skrowl 10y agoWhat amazes me is that a reddit user found it but somehow all of the FBI investigators didn't.
- brianwawok 10y agoYou are amazed a group of 100 million people knew something 6 guys in an office did not?
- WalterSear 10y ago100 million people faffing about vs 6 full time guys who are presumably professionals in the field? And really, it's not 100 million people. That's just the number of people on the site. In actual fact, it's probably a handful of people at most.
- umanwizard 10y ago100 million people (or a handful, whatever) who don't have to worry about Bill Clinton and various other powerful figured pressuring them into compliance. You can believe that, against all odds, Bill really did just talk to Loretta Lynch about grandkids. Even so, the point was still made.
- WalterSear 10y ago"Noice grandkids you got there. Wouldn't want anyfink to 'appen to em, would we now?"
- mindcrime 10y ago100 million people faffing about vs 6 full time guys who are presumably professionals in the field? Some of the "people faffing about" are probably also professionals and some of them are probably better than the people employed by the FBI. I mean, yeah, there are plenty of dumbasses on Reddit, but there are people who really Know Their Shit as well.
- ryanSrich 10y agoReally? This is the least surprising thing about all of this.
- douche 10y agoI'm not sure how motivated the FBI really was to find anything. You start looking too hard and I'm certain you'd turn up a lot of dirt in some very inconvenient places, at all points on the political spectrum.
- albinofrenchy 10y agoWhy are we assuming the FBI didn't?
- danso 10y agoI'm guessing that a person who asks this kind of "help-me-cover-something-up" question while mentioning that his client is "VERY VIP" is also completely oblivious of how findable things are on today's Internet. I'm guessing the Internet detective work might have come from something very serendipitous and casual: Someone interested in the email server scandal doing a search for "Paul Cambetta", which is a fairly rare name, and landing upon his Etsy page with the also unusual handle of "stonetear", and then googling that and finding his Reddit account.
- whatshisface 10y agoIt's possible that the mistake was intentional. Maybe he wanted her to be exposed.
- danso 10y agoYeah but he was already granted immunity to testify to the FBI, so if he wanted to expose her legally, he had his chance. And he was no longer in charge of handling Clinton's email at that point anyway.
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- AnOscelot 10y agoPeople really should learn to not reuse usernames. Unique password per site, and unique name as well. This won't protect anyone from government agents, but it will make it harder for an Internet mob to determine your identity.
- redblacktree 10y agoI use 'redblacktree' everywhere, but I'm very aware that it's public and traceable to my real-life identity. (though, there are unfortunately a few sites where someone else took the name... Notably Twitter)
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