Posted on 03/10/2015 9:00:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I’ve raised in prior posts (here and here) the issue of physical security of the clintonemail.com e-mal server, which is why were it was located and how it was set up matters. Last night, Mitch LaKind — who has experience setting up secure military e-mail servers — wrote me about the detailed issues surrounding Clinton’s approach. I’ll let him speak for himself (emphasis mine, though):
As a former contractor to the Air Force, I personally managed the Microsoft Exchange servers that were installed at Thule Air Base. My experience with Microsoft Exchange goes back to 1997, when the earliest versions were just being introduced. . . . So, I have a bit of knowledge myself when it comes to email.
Anyway, the point I wanted to make, and perhaps if you feel that it is noteworthy you can share my info to those that can get it out into the public eye, is about the Network that the email server was running on.
The US gov’t, and more specifically the DoD and State Department run the NIPRNet (non-classified Network) and SIPRNet (classified Network up to SECRET). Having a server, regardless of location would have to be on a network that met the rating for which classified material would be traveling over it.
It would be impossible for the Secretary of State to be effective at her job if she didn’t correspond about topics that had classified material. We don’t have to argue about whether or not she was effective .
So, if for example Clinton only dealt with SECRET materials and they were sent or received in her email, all of the equipment (routers, switches, etc.) would have to be rated for that SIPRNet connection. Also, the space in which the equipment and servers and client computers resided in would also have to meet the specifications for SECRET material. This would include various forms of physical access to the space in the form of secure cards, biometrics, etc. No space rated for SECRET opens with a key from the local hardware store.
That being said, if the room and equipment was rated for SECRET, it would leave a huge paper trail as all the equipment and effort to make the space secure would require procurement and assignment of goods and services. This would mean that the federal government was not only aware of the remote server, but also complicit.
Even a NIPRNet connection would have similar logistics behind it, because of the very nature the connection would have been some type of point to point to the server.
The biggest issue I see here would be is if the server was connected to the public Internet and it resided in a non-DoD-approved space.
Yeah, I’ll say. Other have been pointing this out, and I’ve touched upon it, but Mitch really gets to the heart of a key issue: either the Clinton server room — wherever that was — was SECRET-level secure, and the government was involved in setting it up, or it wasn’t, and that end of the communications link was at risk.
Neither answer looks good for HRC.
Her basement was the location of her server, her computer that handled her e mail traffic. The IP, her internet provider, was in either the British Virgin Islands or Austin Texas.
I did the check outlined by Herosmith and it yielded the IP site as Austin TX and British Virgin Islands
To me, this is the crux of the violation of law and she utterly destroyed herself with this response. Her rationale is that by sending email to .gov accounts, she was preserving the record of her communications. That is woefully inadequate.
Were all of her email to .gov addressees? Really?
Hillary Clinton needs to be arrested, charged, tried, and punished.
There was an IT expert on Greta last night & he claims he traced the server to some sort of government building in NY City. He said several times he was absolutely positive of his results. Greta questioned whether it was a Clinton Foundation office, or a state government building, but he didn’t know. I’m guessing Greta might have somebody look into this & others will be hot on the trail. If that’s where it is, doesn’t sound like the Secret Service is guarding it, among other lies Hillary told yesterday.
I hope Greta follows up. Lap dog Lanny Davis was on Smerconish Saturday claiming the Clinton server was on a Comcast server in CT. It was definitely not under Secret Service guard there. Lanny did not repeat this same information with Chris Wallace on Sunday.
http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/03/07/smerconish-lanny-davis-03072015.cnn
1) The IP channels to this email host were not secure.
2) The server itself was not secure.
Just item 1 is enough to compromise any and all transmissions, since the right spyware at the ISPs hub could sniff and copy every packet sent in real-time to a separate location for storage. The NSA uses this already, with the ISPs complicity; foreign actors would have to sneak this in, and do.
yea the same secret service under investigation for all manner of fol de rol....
Lanny Davis and Snakehead ..... return of the maggots to remind everybody that the Clintons are rotten to the core - always have been and always will be.
This server situation is already bad & it’s going to get a lot worse, IMO.
Interesting.
One main lesson from this is that Hillary put her personal privacy needs far above the nation’s national security.
And she could still be elected president. God help this nation of morons.
What was Nixon’s %, based on 18.5 minutes missing from 4 years of Oval Office audiotape?
That 18-minute gap was called “the smoking gun” and led to Nixon’s resignation in disgrace.
An expert on Greta last night said he located the server and it was in a government location in NYC.
Greta looked stunned and wanted him to state which government building but he wouldn’t.
75 Broad Street, New York, NY 10004
1,400 SF | Office
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
How are emails counted? Do the CC’s count?
This would be a good time to investigate the “Energizer Bunny” that is/was Bill Clinton’s visitor as soon as Hillary left and the Secret Service was to let her enter without scrutiny. Maybe she is/was a spy that learned how to access the physical area of the equipment.
I came up with British Virgin Islands.
Does Network Solutions remotely administer the Clinton’s email server?
DSS and DOS has JWICS too.
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