http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/26/technology/hillary-clinton-bleachbit/
"Jonathan Zdziarski, a computer security expert, characterized BleachBit as a fairly "amateur" tool that doesn't raise any red flags. "It looks like the type of tool someone would run who's conscious of cleaning old crud off their system," Zdziarski said. "Someone trying to cover their tracks would likely pay for and use a much more expensive, specialized data destruction tool."" To me, this looks clueless. My assumption is that Bleachbit is software that overwrites dataon a hard disk a few times, in order to make it un-recoverable even with 'heroic" means.I recall reading, 25-30 years ago, that some government agency (perhaps it was the NSA?)had a standard that required the re-writing of new, random data onto a location which had previously stored secret data 5 times, in order to guarantee that the old data was completelyunrecoverable. Since then, the vast increase in the amount of data put in a given area, as well as new encoding/reading techniques (such as GMR data detection) have probably reduced the number overwrites necessary to completely efface earlier data. I suppose 3 times is probably sufficient, today.If Clinton's minions really used Bleachbit, this seems to be a virtual admission of guilt towhatever they are suspected of. It was bad enough when their lawyers assisted her by,in part, totally erasing the data. (rather than keeping a copy of the original data if it is later needed.) But Clinton is stupid, because we can reasonably assume that somebody obtained acopy of these emails, the NSA if nobody else. They should release them, now, to ensure thatthat evil woman is sent packing. There's a prison cell waiting for her. Jim Bell
