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Hacking Forensic Investigator: Lerner's Emails Are Retrievable
Breitbart TV ^ | June 23, 2014 | Ian Hanchet

Posted on 06/23/2014 3:54:23 PM PDT by bkopto

Vinnie Troia, the CEO of Night Lion Security and a computer hacking forensic investigator stated that even though the IRS cancelled its contract with e-mail backup service, the agency’s e-mails are still stored off-site and should be retrievable.

Troia pointed out that “even according to the 2012 and 2013 audits which were performed on the IRS systems, they were shown to have back-ups that were fully functional, back-ups that were offsite and tested to be properly off-site,” adding “those back-ups do exist somewhere. It is just a matter of finding them and going after them.”

He also reported that the 2013 audit of the IRS’ computer services showed that “the IRS is ignoring really basic fundamental security procedures like even updating their systems.”

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KEYWORDS: destroyedevidence; emails; irsscandals; obamacrimes
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To: Viennacon
With this in mind, why has there been not a single arrest!

Because the Pubbies have no heart, or maybe it would be more accurate to say, they have no stones.

21 posted on 06/23/2014 6:06:37 PM PDT by Mark17 (Rudyard Kipling: Liberals be wary, when the SHTF, The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon will clobber you)
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To: Edward Teach

A RAID drive isn’t a backup, but an appropriately configured RAID will prevent data loss should a single drive go bad.

I cannot imagine storing emails and other important data on anything less than a RAID - the exception being my WayBackMachine for my MAC, but then again I also have off-site storage


22 posted on 06/23/2014 6:06:53 PM PDT by Smedley (It's a sad day for American capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over Central Park)
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To: bkopto

Just require them to supply the crashed hard drive itself. The data is still there, and fully recoverable, unless they have taken extraordinary measures. Which, if so, indicates criminal intent to destroy evidence. Either way, get the crashed drives.


23 posted on 06/23/2014 6:26:02 PM PDT by Trityn (FUBO and the Soros you rode in on.)
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To: lacrew

They are with the real birth cert. never to be found.


24 posted on 06/23/2014 6:28:23 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!! Once again dingy hairball, STFU!!! You corrupt POS!!!)
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To: Trityn

Ahh, nevermind. They got rid of the evidence.

“The damaged hard drive containing ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s missing emails was disposed of more than two years ago, the agency confessed on Wednesday.” — http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2662577/The-IRS-THREW-AWAY-Lois-Lerners-hard-drive-containing-incriminating-emails.html


25 posted on 06/23/2014 6:48:09 PM PDT by Trityn (FUBO and the Soros you rode in on.)
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To: bkopto

Whoever received IRS Emails will also have records on their Microsoft Exchange Servers, in Outlook, etc. It is too convenient to just say the IRS lost them; actually, anyone whom Lois Learner communicated would also be bound by the same laws to maintain these records. Therefore, there may be twice or more the volume of backups.


26 posted on 06/23/2014 6:50:06 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: Political Junkie Too

Wouldn’t bother tape or disk or optical media — might harm the I/O devices including ICs on the disk drives.


27 posted on 06/23/2014 6:55:30 PM PDT by steve86 ( Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: Viennacon

The House needs to start using it’s power to hold people in contempt and make the sgt at arms perform his duties and put people in jail.


28 posted on 06/23/2014 7:27:22 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
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To: reed13k

And if we’re going to imagine, just imagine the House taking the IRS out of obamacare enforcement.


29 posted on 06/23/2014 7:33:39 PM PDT by MHGinTN
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To: unixfox
if facing jail time

There's where you break down. It will never happen while Holder is AG and they all know it.

If the GOP are really serious their first move should be to stop waiting for the zero chance that Holder's Justice Department will do anything beyond throwing parties for anyone the House holds in Contempt and to exert their only real threat. The House can on its own authority imprison those it holds in Contempt. It can and should start with Holder and should throw Lerner in right after him. I don't recall anyone else being held in Contempt by this House, but if they're are, throw them in too. Obama has no power to pardon them out of there, and precedent says the Judicial system also has minimal jurisdiction. Judicial prison standards also don't apply so they don't have to be kept under Club Fed standards. I'd advise subcontracting with Sheriff Joe to 'House' them once Obama predictably forbids any executive branch run institutions from doing so. They can hold them until the end of this Congress at which time the next House can repeat it. THEN ask the little people whether they think Pelosi will take back the Speakership and come to their rescue or whether they want to tell all the truth.

Admittedly the chances of this happening under Speaker Boehner is similar to the chances of Majority Leader Cantor losing his primary. But a Tea Party rip tide in November might bring in bolder leadership.

30 posted on 06/23/2014 8:12:43 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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To: bkopto

They’re gone, Jim. The primary RAID arrays on all of the MS Exchange servers, every individual email account that receive and stored those mails locally, every local archive created by every user that received them, every offsite storage server and attached storage, every paper backup copy...they are all gone.

They stonewalled it so long to ensure that every trace is gone. And they put every single person who received those mails under NDA and subtle threat of death.

It’ll take a whistle blower extraordinaire willing to forego pension and be under constant attack for decades to bring anything to the light of day.


31 posted on 06/23/2014 8:40:21 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

There is a million dollar reward offered by True The Vote for information
from whistle blower!!! Invested the right way this might be enough for someone to come forward!!!!


32 posted on 06/23/2014 8:56:53 PM PDT by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: DB

If they were using free email accounts, then the emails could have never been sent. A popular form of email communication among bad guys is to share an email login with other conspirators. Then, an email is composed, but never sent out. It is saved as a draft. Accomplices can login, read the draft to obtain instructions, and leave it parked as a draft for others to review.


33 posted on 06/23/2014 10:23:24 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: Smedley

Yes but RAID only lets you recover from a drive failure in the moment. It’s of little use when you’re trying to restore data that was deleted or destroyed two years ago.


34 posted on 06/23/2014 10:38:24 PM PDT by Edward Teach
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Interesting. I would think even those messages end up being backup up on the server but in that case that is the only place it would exist and would never be intercepted through normal means.

Were they that sophisticated?


35 posted on 06/23/2014 11:41:44 PM PDT by DB
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That’s assuming they used their government Email accounts to send these messages.


36 posted on 06/23/2014 11:43:19 PM PDT by DB
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To: DB; GeronL

The big picture lost in all of this scandal is that emails reside on SEVERAL servers (there are backup servers PLUS there are each of the RECIPIENTS’ servers as well...)


37 posted on 06/24/2014 4:39:59 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: DB

I think they were knowledgeable about how other enemies of America communicate and could have adopted the practice. That way they could have party influence and direction without a compromising trail. An important question to ask is not, “did you send email,” but, “did you compose email?”


38 posted on 06/24/2014 9:50:20 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: bkopto

bump to the top


39 posted on 06/26/2014 4:58:39 AM PDT by GOPJ (Hey IRS - those receipts you wanted? The dog ate 'em. -New Name:"Washington Thinskins" -FR. coloeo)
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To: Edward Teach

RAIDS can be self-repairing. Take out the bad disk, insert a blank one, and it will repopulate the blank disk using redundantly stored data


40 posted on 08/01/2014 1:46:32 PM PDT by Smedley (It's a sad day for American capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over Central Park)
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