Cleaning up a few questions about the Great Data Breach of 2015

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25. Your reply is hardly unbiased

First, please stop calling them "data logs" because they are not. What everyone keeps calling "data logs" is a human created document that is, at best, an executive summary of a certain chain of events, they are not computer-generated event logs like a transaction log from an SQL database or an application event log generated from a Windows PC. Data logs would be meaningless to most people, unless you are an IT professional and have experience in the system they come from, they are nothing but gibberish. I would want the raw, system-generated, logs to be analyzed by an independent auditing firm by an actual IT professional with experience with VoteBuilder, before I am willing to commit to what did and did not happen. To be fair, log information is often very limited and sometimes downright ambiguous about events. I know, I've been looking at log files from all kinds of systems and applications for over 20 years and rarely are all the answers in them.

Second, you first state that the Sanders campaign couldn't have got the information on accident, which I agree with and actually so does the Sanders campaign, then say later on that the Clinton campaign could have in The 2008 event, cannot have it both ways.

Lastly, your explanation is right on some points (no data was removed or saved in folders, other than within the VoteBuilder software itself). Guessing, if not downright arguemenative, in other places.

Leave what actually happened to whatever independent firm examines the records.
To head off any flamming, I am not saying that things could not have been handled better on the Sanders side.

I am saying that mistakes are not a conspiracy.
That the DNC acted unprofessional and violated their contract.
That the Clinton campaign knew, by the time they went screaming to the press, that no actual data, voter list, had been removed from the VoteBuilder system. They inflamed the situation with information they knew was not true.

Whatever else did or did not happen will come from an independent auditing firm in three near future.