Given the inept way this administration handles anything, this story from two years ago always bothered me.
The FReeper thread
and
Smoking Gun source document
Cheers
OLA
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.
Go to it the normal way, and you don't get any SSL rhubarb, just a normal login screen.
It’s office space.
Not any more..... :0)
She was swapping recipes and talking about that grandbaby and yoga and stuff.
25 emails a day? Doesn’t sound particularly unlikely to me.
Wonder if she had a Facebook account.
Given the inept way this administration handles anything, this story from two years ago always bothered me.
The FReeper thread
and
Smoking Gun source document
Cheers
OLA
If it wasn’t configured to those standards, she should be in jail.
“......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.”.......
Once again, “What difference does it make” will come into play. I expect NOTHING will happen to HRC. “Slick Willie” the teflon president, didn’t earn that name for being a choir boy and Hitlary has a pretty heavy coating of that same teflon.
So Hillary’s statement that the server was protected by armed FBI agents is “non operative”
Anyone wondering anymore how Wikileaks got rolling?
To be honest with this crew,I doubt if our enemies have to hack a computer to get secrets,these people give them away,Iran Nukes are a perfect example.
The policy for America dealing with a Nuclear Iran has already been written by the state Department,the only thing going on now is,politicians are positioning themselves to blame the other guy for allowing it to happen,the letter from Senators goes into the folder as one issue that will help Hillary and Obama to blame the Republicans
Sadly, everything is acceptable today.
Find:
1 classified secret
-OR-
gaps in the record, like Trey Gowdy is reporting regarding Libya.
On the other hand, I think she’s the weakest Dem. We should support her win in the primaries”
Sorry, never underestimate the low information feel good female voter, college students and deadbeats. Rotham is still the front runner and odds on next President at THIS point in time
One issue I haven’t seen discussed (or I missed it) is encryption. Hillary seems to imply she was trading recipes with Chelsea and sending official SoS communique on the same server. Were her SoS emails being transmitted in clear text over the public internet?
Before contemplating that, remember, these are the same people who can launch nuclear weapons.
I got Austin Texas and British Virgin Islands
Up your alley ping
I thought "convenience" and/or subsequent regrets this action were acceptable legal excuses.
Wow what a revelation! /sarc
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