Regardless of content, what’s interesting is, VOICEMAILS?
Does the DNC have moles? WTH?
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Did someone tap the phones???
Depends on the nature of their phone system. They could have a VOIP server with poor security that was compromised.
That is much more likely than a rogue staffer/mole because if they hacked the phone server they could easily copy off all the VMs in each mailbox. They could have been making copies of them for years. Even recording the calls that were being made over the system...
Maybe that is what is going on with the DNC. Maybe it was not a hacked voicemail system, but simply listening to the attachment to an email, no different than opening an Excel attachment or something like that.
No.it is not necessarily moles. Most likely, the email server that the DNC was/is using for their mail is a Microsoft Exchange server. Many organizations use exchange because it is somewhat easy to administer if you don’t have more than a few brain cells bouncing around in your head.it is easy to set up email for a bunch of folks, and doesn’t require much wffort to set up - unless you are actually serious about security. If you are, then you need to be fmore than a monkry who can mash a few buttons to get email working. If you want securty, you need a professional who hopefully understands more than the basics.
Exchange stores all of its mail for its users in a big database. IM figuring most likely that from the looks of the way thigs have been distributed, that someone broke into the server and hoovered up the db. This gives you access to everything, individual emails, attchments, the whole ball o wax.
Since the databse is already in a structured format, extracting everything so that it becomes searchable on on a database the way wikileaks is, is pretty straightforward.
I’d throw in some comments about how silly it is to be running a micrsoft server with exposed ports on the Internet, but I dont want to get involved in a holy war.
Bottom line: a mole would be useful but not necessary.
I’m sure the NSA, CIA, OR FBI (well, maybe not the FBI), has any number of ways that they know of to ger into a microsoft exchange server. Of course, they won’t tell Microsoft about them because if Microsoft were to be informed, and they released a patch to fix those holes, then the NSIA/CIA could not snoop into the servers of “evildoers” at will without warrants or other such bothersome niceties.
Of course, contrary to what the fine fellows at the NSA/CIA, and even the useless drones at the FBI would have you believe, America isn’t the sole repository of smart people on the planet. So, other organizations without such pure motives are sometimes able to make use of these vulnerabilities discovered by folks being paid by the American taxpayerwhonfelt that their ability to read our email outweighs the securty of anyone who is NOT a part of the government leviathan.
Isn’t it wonderful that your government thinks so little of your security that they will publicly admit it, and you can’t do a damned thing about it?
Most IP based phone systems store voice messages as attachments to emails. The feature is often called "Unified Messaging." Could very well still be an outside hack of the email server.