Today's technical question

[Estonut]

The emails wouldn't have to be downloaded onto the laptop. They could remain on the server and be retrieved via the Web. That's how your smartphones do it.

Every article I've read said they were found "on the laptop," not on some other server found using the laptop. I believe that a search warrant authorizing the FBI to seize a laptop DOES NOT give them access to any other site that can be accessed by the laptop.

[silverscreenselect]

The emails wouldn't have to be downloaded onto the laptop. They could remain on the server and be retrieved via the Web. That's how your smartphones do it.

Every article I've read said they were found "on the laptop," not on some other server found using the laptop. I believe that a search warrant authorizing the FBI to seize a laptop DOES NOT give them access to any other site that can be accessed by the laptop.

A clarification. This was Weiner's computer, and there were 650,000 e-mails on it. Of that number, "tens of thousands" were Huma Abedin's e-mails. There's still no word as to how her e-mails got on his computer, although a guess might be that at one time or another she used that laptop to download e-mails from other servers.

It's also possible that many of those e-mails (his and hers) were deleted but removed from the hard drive. I had to educate Mrs. SSS on the difference between hitting the "delete" key on an e-mail and actually deleting the e-mail from the hard drive.

[Bob Juch]

The emails wouldn't have to be downloaded onto the laptop. They could remain on the server and be retrieved via the Web. That's how your smartphones do it.

Every article I've read said they were found "on the laptop," not on some other server found using the laptop. I believe that a search warrant authorizing the FBI to seize a laptop DOES NOT give them access to any other site that can be accessed by the laptop.

I wasn't responding to any specific (political) situation.

[tlynn78]

If you get this far (either way), you should see a reference to "C Drive." Right-click on that and then click on "Properties" to bring up the Properties window. It should default to the tab labeled "General." If you're on a different tab, click the General tab. You should see figures for your used space, free space and your disk capacity. Disk capacity is the size of your main hard drive.

Aha! Getting there is somewhat different in Windows 10, but I discovered I have 921 GBs on the C drive. I wish I had that much storage space, comparatively speaking, in my kitchen cabinets.

Thank you, Esto.

This! A hundred times, this!

[tlynn78]

I'm more concerned with why 650,000 emails are on a single laptop. Typically, a person's laptop would contain a mailbox of only their active emails. How (or why) does a single user get on the distribution of 650,000 emails. For the period HRC was SoS, that is 441 emails per day, or 18 her hour, every hour for 1,473 days.

It seems to me that for the laptop to contain that many emails, whoever's laptop it is contains many many emails that were not directed to that person. Why would they be there? Should they be there (even aside from the security aspect)?

"Life insurance"