Hard though it is to believe, maybe all that feigning of ignorance (”You mean like with a cloth?”) about wiping a server was genuine. Three writers from the Washington Post (Rosalind S. Helderman, Tom Hamburger, and Carol D. Leonig) burrow into the question of what actually was done to the famous server data, and come up with the possibility that the data was not expertly “wiped” by overwriting it multiple times with nonsense characters. That process can be accomplished with commercially available software programs, but according to the Post writers: The company that managed Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private e-mail server said it has “no knowledge of the server being wiped,” the strongest indication to date that tens of thousands of e-mails that Clinton has said were deleted could be recovered. (snip) “Platte River has no knowledge of the server being wiped,” company spokesman Andy Boian told The Washington Post. “All...(Read Full Post)