Posted on 10/13/2015 8:50:51 AM PDT by lbryce
The only item missing from the secret e-mail server run by Hillary Clinton appears to be the welcome mat for hackers. According to the Associated Press, the Clintons set up remote-control operations of its server without ever bothering to build in the normal security that would accompany those functions in a professional setting — if one could even find a professional setting that would allow those functions to operate at all:
Clinton’s server, which handled her personal and State Department correspondence, appeared to allow users to connect openly over the Internet to control it remotely, according to detailed records compiled in 2012. Experts said the Microsoft remote desktop service wasn’t intended for such use without additional protective measures, and was the subject of U.S. government and industry warnings at the time over attacks from even low-skilled intruders. Just in case any hackers missed the “Open House” sign on the unlocked front door, the Clintons left two back doors unlocked, too:
Records show that Clinton additionally operated two more devices on her home network in Chappaqua, New York, that also were directly accessible from the Internet. One contained similar remote-control software that also has suffered from security vulnerabilities, known as Virtual Network Computing, and the other appeared to be configured to run websites.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Wide Open Servers Ping
Obviously she never consulted with Loonie Davis or Sandy Burglar about security matters. Cheryl MIlls admit she blew it.
Popcorn Futures jumped this morning on the revelation.
Uh, didn’t you get a copy of all her emails? I thought everybody had a thumb drive full of them.
Reminds me of the 0bamacare website rollout .....
I am wondering who the hell was in charge of this. Clearly a person at her executive level would simply say, “Get this done.”
Because when I set up my first server about fifteen years ago I made similar mistakes. I was hacked in about three weeks.
As my business grew, I decided that I did not have time for this crap and moved to a company that actually managed this stuff—and indemnified me against any crap with credit cards and transactions. I slept easy. They did everything.
I am a smart guy. But I was never called the Smartest Lawyer in the US.
The people doing this must really be naive idiots. (Calling Captain Obvious.)
Smartest Woman in the World.
The way that the story is told....someone at the Denver Democratic convention got face time with a Hillary insider and sold them on ‘services’. To me....it doesn’t sound like they really knew what they were getting themselves into....other than more connections to meet other big DC rollers and build up more business via the Democratic players.
Having been a middle-man between IT folks and customers....I know enough to ask a dozen-odd questions and make sure the customer knows what they are buying into and the weak points. If they can only spend X amount....fine. In this case...I’m making a guess that the foundation had a sum of money in their mind, and it was sufficient for a marginal three-star server and part-time administrative help.
Looks like her nerdphobia has come back to bite her in her ample nether regions.
“....in which they operate with such audacious brazen impunity, morally brain dead that has all the earmarks of a crime syndicate....”
Been that way for decades. Remember CHINAGATE ???? (and how Slick “bought” his way out of federal prosecution on that treason). The list goes on.
WOW! She has WOW'ED me again....
“Hillary went to these incompetent internet companies because they operated the way they did - shady and sloppy. That’s how the Clinton gang operates everything. “
Perhaps more along the lines of when your priorities are evading the law, you can’t really go to top-line firms. They would laugh in your face and report you to the FBI.
We cannot rule out that Hillary Clinton committed espionage against the citizens of The United States.
She would sell your children and grandchildren into slavery to put money in her pockets.
Look, if I was paying a few million for a 12 minute speech by a woman as boring as Hillary, I’d damn well want easy access to American secrets.
Luckily for Hillary CNN will be kissing her butt tonight - with the toughest questions reserved for why didn’t she back gay marriage sooner.
Who sucks more? Hillary or CNN?
If all that stuff was so open for so long, I am really kind of disappointed in the hacker community.
The linked article quotes people who attribute these lapses to naivete and incompetence. Sorry, but that's exactly what the Clintons would love us to think. The criminal statutes on stupidity are considerably thinner than the ones on fraud, graft, corruption, obstruction of justice, espionage and treason.
The old axiom, never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence, is not a bad rule of thumb for family and friends. But rarely in crime syndicates and never in matters of foreign intelligence.
I am in awe of these people in terms of the sort of bottomless abyss of morality and principle in which they operate with such audacious brazen impunity, morally brain dead that has all the earmarks of a crime syndicate.
And that is only Hillary’s hacks and backers in her national press corpse! Hillary’s staffers and her Clinton Foundation sycophants are even worse!
They want us to believe that stupidity explains everything. That would take a whole lot of stupid.
At what point is it stupid to think this was just a whole lot of stupid?
So... At what point does stupidity become SO stupid that it is no longer stupid, but DELIBERATE?
What are the implications?
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