On Wall Street, a high-ranking few still avoid email

Re:On Wall Street, a high-ranking few still avoid email by zaroth on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @04:23PM (#12858884)

It's actually pretty hard to create convincing email headers across thousands of emails.

Many of these highly eyebrow raising emails are CC'd to gmail accounts, for example. If it was fake, you could ask Google for the logs to prove at least it wasn't received.

And if there are DKIM headers, then that's certainly strong evidence that the header and body are legit.

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Re:On Wall Street, a high-ranking few still avoid email by Spooky23 on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @06:56PM (#12860140)

Most leaks that I've seen are not PSTs with full metadata.

The whole problem with this sort of thing is that there's no chain of custody.

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Re:On Wall Street, a high-ranking few still avoid email by tedks on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @11:41PM (#12861432)

The web interface does show some of these things, but I think with Wikileaks you can always get a torrent of the raw files they've obtained. At least, that was usually the case. The DKIM information is verifiable, and if Wikileaks was overtly fabricating something, people would love to be able to attest to that fact. Hillary Clinton could say that Wikileaks is overtly lying, but doesn't, because there are multiple ways of verifying this particular leak and it would be nonsensical to try to outright deny it. Instead, she tries to Putin her way out of any discussion involving this. Do you think she would do that if she could just deny?

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Re:On Wall Street, a high-ranking few still avoid email by qq66 on Thursday November 03, 2016 @12:59AM (#12861714)

You'd never fake thousands of emails. You'd fake one email and insert it into a set of thousands of real emails.

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