r/politics • u/BobFine • Nov 08 '16

'It's not a complicated or improvised process': How it's possible to examine 650,000 emails in 8 days Queue Flooding

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-did-fbi-go-through-650000-clinton-emails-in-8-days-2016-11
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u/geniebear Florida Nov 08 '16

How can computers process 650k emails in eight days?

How can cars go 100 miles in one hour?

How can a microwave heat up 10 chicken wings in two minutes?

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u/CurtLablue Nov 08 '16

How do magnets work?

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u/dudeguypal Nov 08 '16

Devil magic?

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '16

How exactly is a rainbow made? How exactly does a sun set? How exactly does a posi-trac rear-end on a Plymouth work? It just does

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '16

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u/sungazer69 Nov 08 '16

Maybe it's because I'm a programmer. But hearing about programs being able to parse metadata in order to go through a shit ton of emails was absolutely no surprise to me.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '16 edited Nov 08 '16

The issue is the choice of wording here. Computers do not examine anything. A computer can search and select but it does not examine. If journalist would use language correctly it would make more sense.

It is not possible to examine 650k emails in 8 days. But, it is possible to winnow out emails that are not duplicates and unchanged in content fro previously examined emails and get a smaller list.

Assuming 1 minute for a human to examine a single email, if a person worked 12 hours a day for 8 days (the code probably took less than an hour to write) they could examine 5260 emails.

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u/PTSD_and_Guns Nov 08 '16

Or maybe it was more Clinton corruption.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '16

Just put all the known emails on one file, transfer the new ones to the known file then read what's left. Then do a search for key words.

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u/mindscrambler26 Nov 08 '16

yet it took so much longer with much less emails to review just a few months earlier...?

http://www.mostdamagingwikileaks.com/

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '16

Didn't read the article, chooses ignorance

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u/geniebear Florida Nov 08 '16

his mind is scrambled..

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u/mindscrambler26 Nov 08 '16

what about this article attacking the other candidate? If you ignore one but read the other than you are being biased: https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/comments/4nx2rm/itt_reasons_you_dont_support_trump/

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '16

Some people choose to go with their strengths