Posted on 08/17/2015 8:00:43 PM PDT by Eroteme
The company that stored Hillary Clinton’s private email server tells Breitbart News no backup of Clinton’s server has ever been known to exist.
“No data or backups have ever been known to exist or have ever been in the possession of Platte River Networks,” a representative for the company said in an interview.
(snip)
The company representative confirmed that Denver-based Platte River Networks was hired by the Clinton family in June 2013, five months after Clinton left the State Department, to secure the private email server that she used to conduct official government business. Platte River Networks was paid by the Clintons personally.
(snip)
Platte River Networks got the Clinton job by submitting a proposal to take over the server shortly after Clinton left the State Department. The Denver-based company beat out other competitor proposals. Though the company was not cleared to handle classified information, Platte River never saw verification that there was classified information on the server, and, after all, they were personally hired by the Clintons, according to the representative.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Criminals and politicians?
Keep an eye out, Huma and the other staff woman are going to be holding the bag for stripping off the classification headers. Clintor the destroyer is gonna see them as a dangerous loose end that might sing if leaned on, so I bet they end up commiting arkancide...
And vice versa.
That appears to be Internap Network Services Co's New York Metro Data Center, located in Secaucus, New Jersey.
$ traceroute mail.clintonemail.com
traceroute to mail.clintonemail.com (64.94.172.146), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
[... snip ...]
5 tengige0-6-0-1.gw5.nyc4.alter.net (152.63.17.58) 24.439 ms
tengige0-7-0-7.gw5.nyc4.alter.net (152.63.22.122) 17.286 ms
tengige0-7-0-4.gw5.nyc4.alter.net (152.63.17.110) 14.730 ms
6 internap-gw.customer.alter.net (65.217.199.202) 14.669 ms 12.180 ms 12.405 ms
7 border2.pc1-bbnet1.nyj001.pnap.net (216.52.95.10) 14.367 ms
border2.pc2-bbnet2.nyj001.pnap.net (216.52.95.74) 12.166 ms
border2.pc1-bbnet1.nyj001.pnap.net (216.52.95.10) 12.218 ms
8 * * *
9 * * *
10 *^C
In the above traceroute, the last server before the mute clinton box is border2.pc1-bbnet1.nyj001.pnap.net (216.52.95.10). In Internap's naming scheme, nyj001 denotes their New York Metro Data Center.
So strange. And confusing. The server was at Bill’s office in Harlem. It was moved to the Chappaqua house. Hillary used it while SOS. When she left that job she had it wiped clean. Then the erased server is moved to New Jersey. Now the FBI have it. Is that about right?
It’s the Clintons - parse the words. Ask the Platte people questions that nail them to the wall over backed up data. If they were asked to ‘secure’ HRC’s server and they did not start by backing it up, they should be out of business.
By saying this....they’ve ended any future big-time contracts. My guess is that it’ll fold in a matter of weeks and be bought by someone for fifty-percent of the value, then renamed.
One of the company’s specialties is destroying data.
We’re working uphill against the technology ignorance of journalists here.
Backing up a server is not part of security. It’s an administration/operations function. Security is going to be physical security plus network security. It probably does not include OS level security - that’s in the admin realm. If they were managing the server then the admin side would be included.
The question that needs to be asked is who was responsible for administering the server. That may or may not be Platte or the third party colocation company. My best guess is that Bryan Pagliano was the server administrator, and if so, the FBI needs to haul him in and seize his computers yesterday.
I’m trying to piece together the chain of events in some sensible way, but can’t get past the question of what exactly was co-located by Platte. An empty server? A new server without any of the old data? An existing server with data that was later wiped clean?
Unless the FBI is wholly incompetent or utterly compromised, the first things they would ask the Platte people would be
OK let me try and clarify this as best I can.
“Securing a server” from the data center point of view means:
- Controlling physical access to the machine with access controlled doors and physical locks on the cabinet rack.
- Controlling network access to the machine via firewalls, limiting the types of requests that can be made to it, opening ports only for services the machine intends to provide over the network. In this case, SMTP inbound and outbound only from external networks. If doing the job right, shell access is through a VPN on the local network, so providing the VPN is part of network security.
Administration is a completely separate function. I’ve held the title of administrator on both government and corporate networks, large ones. This role is sometimes also called management.
Shell access (the ability to log into a machine) is on the border between security and administration. Who controls shell access depends on the context. In a large network, user identity management, using a central authentication mechanism such as Active Directory, is part of the security function. On a single-server setup as the Clinton machine is described to be, it is an administration function, and the security people probably can’t even log into the box.
Backups are part of administration. When backups are made to some physical media such as tapes or optical disks (e.g. DVDs, CDs), the physical security of that media is in the security realm, but the actual backup process itself is the administrator’s job, as is making sure the backup actually works.
Backups can ALSO be done offsite to a different server. In addition, any system important enough often has a COOP (Contingency Of OPerations) plan involving a failover server, which is typically clustered with the main server either on the operating system level or the application level. (IIRC this was an MSExchange mail system and at the time there was no workable MSExchange clustering available.)
To wrap this up, Platte is a red herring. They may not know anything at all. The administrator is what the focus needs to be on, and that appears to be Clinton’s campaign IT director who moved to State - that makes sense, given her demand for utter loyalty, she would have wanted only a picked man to have access. That man would be Bryan Pagliano.
Sorry forgot an important part of the conclusion.
Any admin worth their salt is not going to let a single-server configuration be at risk of a failed/bad tape/optical backup. They’re going to cluster it or at least back it up to a different server, and take the backups off the failover so it doesn’t affect the operations of the main server.
This implies the probable existence of a second server, possibly a cluster member, which, if it does in fact exist, should have a complete copy of everything.
“Does the FBI have advanced forensic techniques to read a scrubbed hard drive?”
My guess is that the next shoe to drop is that it isn’t the orig scrubbed drive. That thing went through an industrial shredder and now resides in a quarter panel of Chevey Volt,
The thing that pisses me off is she keeps stating she never sent and email or received an email that had any classification listed on them.
Fine, but that doesn’t mean the emails sent or received isn’t classified. No one seems to talk about that. It’s the content of the email that can make it classified and the content drives the classification.
You could send a joke over any classified net and label it as SECRET/NOFORN but that doesn’t make it SECRET/NOFORN.
Right!!
Something doesn’t jive...Their lawyer said they migrated that data to a new server.
Killary will never see jail..that much I know.
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