8channers found an interesting discrepency in the podesta emails (pizzagate)

submitted ago by gopluckyourself

https://8ch.pl/pol/res/26296.html#26296 <- the actual post in question
https://archive.is/jxcfl <-- archive of actual post
https://www.reddit.com/r/DNCleaks/comments/5cljkp/work_in_progress_wikileaks_the_missinglosthidden/ <-- old work on this
https://archive.is/snd84 <-- archive of old work
as summarised by /u/rush22 in the original post

The guy on 8ch was saying that when you search the podesta emails with nothing in as a search term there's 58660 results. But he noticed the id of the e-mails goes up higher than 58660. For example this email: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/59229

So he wrote a script to type in the url to download the email source, and then he downloaded from 1 to the highest number, 59258 and he did in fact get 59258 files. This is higher than the search result. He found some of them are duplicate files. But it is still higher than the search result. So that means according to the number of files that search returns, there's an "extra" 439 files that aren't searchable. Or 58660 is some sort of technical limitation of the search but that would be weird.

One thing he didn't question is why the directory in the image above only has 57153 files, but that's something else I suppose.

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isthisreality ago

There was a cryptic message posted on 4chan on Nov 2 that Im pretty sure was actually from someone at WikiLeaks that mentioned "the API" . Which in this case would make sense, because the API is what determines what results you get back from a site when you do a specific search. I'm not technologically gifted by any means but I did read up on it and it was all technical jargon to me but that is what I interpreted API to be, anyways

sinclair ago

Application Program Interface. It's basically a spec on how a piece of software works. It's like those Haynes or Chilton books that explains all the details about a specific car and how to fix it. Those books are like an API for a car. I believe that's an accurate analogy.

isthisreality ago

I kind of understand... But I still mostly don't ... As far as WikiLeaks is concerned, what would altering the API do? It is alterable, correct?

Fateswebb ago

An API is created for other programs to plug in and interface with the main program, for instance a google search plugin would use googles API on their servers to handle the search. It's a set of instructions and communication instructions to interface with their application.

sinclair ago

They'd be altering the spec on how the results are returned. Typically, that takes a lot of effort. It would be easier to just force result returns on specific instances than change the whole API. Changing the API would be sitewide. The API might already support this sort of filtering. They don't really have to change the API to fix search results.