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In reply to the discussion: Trump Reponds to Comey’s New Letter: ‘You Can’t Review 650,000 New Emails in Eight Days’ [View all]Jarqui
(10,131 posts)30. It was reported earlier by a few reputable media sources
that the FBI had a program for determining duplicates.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-emails-investigation-fbi-director-james-comey-anthony-weiner/
Inside the labs of the FBIs elite Operational Technology Division in Quantico, Virginia, agents are using a sophisticated software program to scan and sort through several hundred thousand emails on Anthony Wieners laptop.
The software is searching for emails belonging to Huma Abedin, which are expected to number in the thousands. Theyre trying to figure out if any are relevant to the investigation into Hillary Clintons private email server.
The program the FBI is using is likely similar to one built by San Francisco-based company, Logikcull.
It tells you whats inside that data. In 650,000 emails, how many attachments are there? How many documents are images that dont have any searchable content at all? How many duplicates are there? said Andy Wilson, the companys CEO.
Wilson said the process can be completed in days, not weeks.
If they do it in a more modern way, it could be done literally in a couple of hours or a day or two, Wilson said.
Given they'd been searching a variety of servers and locations for the deleted emails, it justified developing it.
The thing is, it is a pretty easy program to write and process to execute. So even if they didn't already have one, they could have hauled in a clever high school kid to whip one up for them - it's that simple. I know as I've done something like them for generating data from emails into databases.
Trump's comments expose how ignorant he is and how ignorant those of his supporters who buy it are.
They said that they did not find many that were not duplicates so it would not take long to check security issues on the few new ones they found.
Poor Kellyanne will have to find something else to lie about.
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Trump Reponds to Comey’s New Letter: ‘You Can’t Review 650,000 New Emails in Eight Days’ [View all]
DonViejo
Nov 2016
OP
He knows so little about just about everything. Donnie, how about search terms? This is the same..
George II
Nov 2016
#5
Go back to your tower with your bullshitting brown-nosing personal assistants. Leave us alone.PLEASE
judesedit
Nov 2016
#8
FIVE FBI offices working 24/7 seven days a week can achieve many things. n/t
secondwind
Nov 2016
#22
Yes, you can review that many by using software to compare and sort. tRump thinks he's a programmer
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2016
#27
Why are we talking about Hillary's Emails and Not Trumps close ties to underage Sex Traffickers?
mestyle
Nov 2016
#31
The PBS Newshour reported they searched only for emails to or from Hillary Clinton
progree
Nov 2016
#33
Monday morning, Trump will wake up and realize he's NOT going to be President of the U.S.
C Moon
Nov 2016
#40