I was listening to Devon Stack talk about these new files last night. Something he pointed out is that everyone just uses initials or nicknames when talking directly to others. So when Melania Trump emailed Ghislane, she would address her only as "G". Devon speculated that this might have been some form of opsec. A lot of those emails are otherwise non-incriminating. It would be something like "Hey, G, I heard that you were in town, do you want to hang out?" And Ghislane would respond with something like "Hey Sweet Pea, sorry, but I can't, I am traveling to somewhere else."
This seems odd to me, as I would think that it would be obvious by the address who it is, but maybe they were worried about someone at a lower level intercepting emails? Possibly paparazzi? Since I don't think we have actual addresses for everyone, maybe it's standard practice among the mega rich to not use real names for emails as well?
Anyway, while I probably shouldn't be doing this, I'm trying to think of reasons why they would use such weird language like "muffin and steaks". I think it's obvious that this is some sort of code, but I wonder if it's not children as people are going to speculate, but random other things that they also considered sensitive for whatever reason.
I guess my question then is, what else would it be?
RT: https://poa.st/objects/5e9dadeb-17bf-4657-acd1-9ae824ba68cd
This seems odd to me, as I would think that it would be obvious by the address who it is, but maybe they were worried about someone at a lower level intercepting emails? Possibly paparazzi? Since I don't think we have actual addresses for everyone, maybe it's standard practice among the mega rich to not use real names for emails as well?
Anyway, while I probably shouldn't be doing this, I'm trying to think of reasons why they would use such weird language like "muffin and steaks". I think it's obvious that this is some sort of code, but I wonder if it's not children as people are going to speculate, but random other things that they also considered sensitive for whatever reason.
I guess my question then is, what else would it be?
RT: https://poa.st/objects/5e9dadeb-17bf-4657-acd1-9ae824ba68cd
