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.
Actually, that is ABSOLUTELY NOT THE TRUTH!!!
Physical security of the servers is the #1 security issue. If you can touch the computer, you can do ANYTHING to it, and the data on it.
If I can get to the console of a Windows, Novell, or any *IX computer, I can probably break into it, and if not, I can certainly destroy all the data on it. I could remove a Windows or *IX drive from the server, and mount it on another Windows or *IX server, to access the data. In a worst case scenario, I can just remove the hard disks and take them to a forensic recovery specialist, who will extract all of the information and data off the drives.
Mark
Very, very bad things may happen to any admin that would allow such a vulnerability to exist for 5 years ...
Just inconceivable the damage which could have been done.
Who paid for the server. The Clinton foundation?
If fact, I would be willing to bet on it.
May have found server location...
I was doing some digging around and found this site where I plugged in some info to get to where I am.
https://www.robtex.com/en/advisory/dns/com/clintonemail/
I found two servers indicating inbound for the emails and all of the IPs point to Englewood Colorado.
https://www.robtex.com/dns/clintonemail.com.inbound10.mxlogic.net.html
9781 S MERIDIAN BLVD, STE 400
ENGLEWOOD, CO 80112-5936
(720) 895-5744
I’m thinking the servers are here...
Maybe Hillary’s servers are on Uranus, where they are protected by clouds of poisonous methane gas!
:-)
Google MX Logic Englewood who it also houses. Yet I digress, apparently Mx Logic provided front end for incoming email for the servers.
Further research has divulged that the servers probably reside in Manhattan at
75 Broad Street
New York, NY 10004
Pinging mail.clintonemail.com results in 64.94.172.146 IP address.
Plugging this into http://www.iplocation.net/
Gives Internap Network Services in NY.
This jives with the info on Greta this evening. I just wanted to know exactly where the server currently resides.
Update
Apparently Mx Logic provided front end for incoming email for the servers.
Further research has divulged that the servers probably reside in Manhattan at
75 Broad Street
New York, NY 10004
Pinging mail.clintonemail.com results in 64.94.172.146 IP address.
Plugging this into http://www.iplocation.net/
Gives Internap Network Services in NY.
This jives with the info on Greta this evening. I just wanted to know exactly where the server currently resides.
Who installed the server?
Where was the server installed?
Who paid for the server and/or the instillation...if the government then we own it?
Who has had access to the server?
What servers backup the server which Hillary used and "scrubbed" of her personal emails?
Who now administers the server when it goes down?
When did Sidney Blumenthal (?) get hacked and was it off of this server? If this server was hacked does not national security concerns demand the server be confiscated and examined?
Does national security interests supersede Hillary's personal privacy concerns?
Did any person have access to the server who did not have security clearance?
Interesting.
https://www.google.com/search?q=75+Broad+Street+New+York%2C+NY+10004&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
The International Telephone Building????
I guess it definitely isn’t in Chappaqua!
Thank you for posting this.
Forget about all the hot air about wedding and funeral plans, and whether or not H*****y carried one or two phones. Security violations are the crux of the issue.
There’s no question that following proper security procedures is a PITA, I had to deal with all that in my earlier days.
That’s why H*****y sought to bypass security and that’s why she belongs in jail.
Convenience is no excuse for violating the law.
*****
Hillary insulted our intelligence yesterday with her public tv defense concerning her email scandal.
1. For instance, Hillary says that when she contacted fellow State Department people, she assumed that the State Department computers automatically recorded her emails.
2. That may be true.
3. But what about her emails to other government agencies: Did she also send emails to agencies like the IRS,the Defense Department, and the White House? Do those agencies unknowingly have Hillary's emails hidden somewhere in some forgotten corner of their computers?
4. My point is this: Does Hillary expect Congress to go searching every agency in Washington in addition to the State Department to try to find everyone of Hillary's emails?
5. Does Hillary really expect us to believe that the ONLY government agency she contacted was the State Department, or that the ONLY government workers she emailed worked for the State Department, or that the ONLY persons she contacted for policy advice worked for the government? Give me a break.
6. She said that she used the same server in her house that her husband also used? Isn't such an action a risk concerning national security? For instance, what happens if a hacker is able to break into the server somehow using her husband's email address? Will he then have access to Hillary's files?
7. And what about her daughter's access to the same server? Could a hacker break into Hillary's files by breaking into her daughter's email?
8. Nobody asked Hillary: "How many email addresses do you have, because a hacker said on the internet that he discovered a list of email addresses that, you, Hillary might have used? Could you tell us where the server is? Is it really in your house?"
9. Again, Hillary insulted our intelligence with her bizarre defense of her private email system on tv yesterday.
That’s kind of strange isn’t it. Two companies with the same address, even down to the same suite #. I wonder if they are subsidiaries of yet another company.
Great sarcastic vid on Hillary. Should go viral:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Cffc_0N4BT8
On the other hand, I think she’s the weakest Dem. We should support her win in the primaries.
If any of it is ever recovered, it won’t be from her end. The drives are long gone.
Didn’t the guy on Greta also say he had traced the sever to a building that was a NYC government office of some type? (He didn’t know what government agency.)
All of this occurred some time ago.
It likely has all changed since then.
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