The Clinton Campaign Should Stop Denying That The Wikileaks Emails Are Valid; They Are And They're Real

Found on Techdirt on Tuesday, 25 October 2016
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Look, it's getting ridiculous that Hillary Clinton defenders keep insisting that the John Podesta emails released by Wikileaks are full of fakes and doctored content. With most other leaks, including the one of Colin Powell's emails, the victims (and, yes, they are victims) eventually admit that the leaked content is legit. Not so with the Podesta emails.

The trick is DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) signatures. DKIM was a system set up a while back to try to fight spam by cryptographically proving that the account that says it sent the mail actually sent the email in question. Not all email systems use DKIM, but hillaryclinton.com does use it.

Politicians tend to think that they can solve a problem just like ostriches do. Even when it is totally ridiculous to see their heads in the sand.