[ale] Why Run your own email server?

[Ed Cashin]

I know this isn't really the point of the email, but the dd command
truncates a file before writing by default, and in that case, the old data
can get added to the file system's free blocks without getting changed.  If
the intention is to overwrite file contents, check out the "notrunc"
feature of dd or use shred.


On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
wrote:

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> *From: *"DJ-Pfulio" <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com>
> *To: *ale at ale.org
> *Sent: *Thursday, September 29, 2016 4:07:48 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [ale] Why Run your own email server?
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> Not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument
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> Plus, it is none of their business, until they can show probable cause
> that something illegal has been done.
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> My comment was not "Why worry if you have nothing to hide?"
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> More like, "worry more about the email admin reading your sh*t than the
> feds"
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> A friend of mine posted on FaceBook "The FBI can't recover the deleted
> emails because Hillary used a special program to delete those"
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> My response was this:
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> S=$(stat --printf="%s" /home/hclinton/mail/INBOX)
> for i in `seq 1 10`
> do
> dd if=/dev/urandom of=/home/hclinton/mail/INBOX bs=1 count=${S}
> done
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> Not a perfect solution, but it is one of "those program".
>
> I then added that her admin was not a good admin unless he added a line at
> the top of that program before he ran it.
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> cp /home/hclinton/mail/INBOX /home/cfowler/hillary-email.mbox
> # Now wipe her copy clean :)
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  Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net>
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