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What is an acid washed email...??? (Original Post) pbmus Apr 2018 OP
They were really popular in the mid 1980's NightWatcher Apr 2018 #1
...an email from the late 80's? Dennis Donovan Apr 2018 #2
First you print your emails out on denim.... MrsCoffee Apr 2018 #3
Loved my acid washed jeans! mcar Apr 2018 #4
Technology is really beyond Trump's abilities PJMcK Apr 2018 #5
Sounds like the ramblings of a demented lunatic. yallerdawg Apr 2018 #6
It's the name of a software program that is supposed to wipe disk files untraceably. Binkie The Clown Apr 2018 #7
from Slate: frogmarch Apr 2018 #8
Thanks.. pbmus Apr 2018 #10
It's an hilarious example of how clueless BLOTUS is about computer tech. blogslut Apr 2018 #9
I think Sophiegirl Apr 2018 #11

PJMcK

(22,037 posts)
5. Technology is really beyond Trump's abilities
Mon Apr 9, 2018, 07:22 PM
Apr 2018

Twitter is all he's got. It's the perfect platform for his short attention span and limited means of expression.

He doesn't have a clue about how computers, email and other technological communications work.

Someone probably used the expression and Trump grabbed it.

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
7. It's the name of a software program that is supposed to wipe disk files untraceably.
Mon Apr 9, 2018, 07:23 PM
Apr 2018

I don't know anything more than that about it.

frogmarch

(12,153 posts)
8. from Slate:
Mon Apr 9, 2018, 07:24 PM
Apr 2018
...Trump was apparently referring to news reports that Clinton had used a software tool called BleachBit—which deletes emails through a process that does not involve pouring chemicals on emails or an email server, but is a computer program—to delete the emails that her team considered private and that were stored on the same server as her state department work emails. As Laura Wagner also noted in Slate, Bleachbit is a free, open-source software program and thus using it is not a very expensive or complicated process (and also not very effective for somebody trying to permanently destroy evidence of crimes). Acid washing—a process for making jeans look cool if you are on an episode of Miami Vice—appears to be Trump’s shorthand for either bleaching or using BleachBit.


http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/10/10/donald_trump_seems_to_believe_hillary_clinton_literally_acid_washed_her.html

blogslut

(38,000 posts)
9. It's an hilarious example of how clueless BLOTUS is about computer tech.
Mon Apr 9, 2018, 07:25 PM
Apr 2018

Clinton/DNC/Podesta types used a cleanup utility called BleachBit. BleachBit function is similar to CCleaner and is nice but hardly a weapons-grade hard disk eraser.

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