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April 25, 2007

Thank God for Nerds

Slashdot, a website billing itself as "Politics for Nerds," has posted an amazing bit of information – a smoking gun - that only nerds would ever discover. Not being a nerd myself, I can't say as I fully understand how they figured this out, but they have links and I'm sure other computer nerds will be able to follow it. But in a nutshell, what they've found is that the same out-of-state server that mysteriously froze up on election night in Ohio in 2004 during the highly contested and controversial voting scandal there (and again in 2006) also hosts the Republican National Committee's email system, from which all those mysterious Karl Rove emails were deleted and which are supposedly irretrievable.

I'm more than a little amazed at this whole other world out there of data and servers and all that nerdy stuff that is sadly beyond most of us to easily grasp. But a surprising amount has been written on this stuff and you can start finding some of it for yourself by doing a Google search, like I did, using the terms server rove emails ohio. It's all too techie for me to take the time to figure it out in the limited time I have to devote to such things, but I can see it's going to become increasingly important and I'm very grateful that some nerdy geniuses out there are busy working on it.

Posted by Becky at April 25, 2007 09:53 AM