Posted on 10/31/2016 7:37:54 PM PDT by jonatron
This spring, a group of computer scientists set out to determine whether hackers were interfering with the Trump campaign. They found something they werent expecting.
...snipIn late July, one of these scientistswho asked to be referred to as Tea Leaves, a pseudonym that would protect his relationship with the networks and banks that employ him to sift their datafound what looked like malware emanating from Russia. The destination domain had Trump in its name, which of course attracted Tea Leaves attention. But his discovery of the data was pure happenstancea surprising needle in a large haystack of DNS lookups on his screen. I have an outlier here that connects to Russia in a strange way, he wrote in his notes. He couldnt quite figure it out at first. But what he saw was a bank in Moscow that kept irregularly pinging a server registered to the Trump Organization on Fifth Avenue.
More data was needed, so he began carefully keeping logs of the Trump servers DNS activity. As he collected the logs, he would circulate them in periodic batches to colleagues in the cybersecurity world. Six of them began scrutinizing them for clues.
...snip
What the scientists amassed wasnt a smoking gun. Its a suggestive body of evidence that doesnt absolutely preclude alternative explanations. But this evidence arrives in the broader context of the campaign and everything else that has come to light: The efforts of Donald Trumps former campaign manager to bring Ukraine into Vladimir Putins orbit; the other Trump adviser whose communications with senior Russian officials have worried intelligence officials; the Russian hacking of the DNC and John Podestas email.
We dont yet know what this server was for, but it deserves further explanation.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
I saw NYTs headline Trump’s tax Dodge...potentially blah, blah, blah. IOWs, something made up with an incriminating title.
'Hello, I am Yuri in Pinsk ... '
Evan have a twin sister?
“Is Hillary a child rapist?”
Wow, they’re grasping for straws.
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This is total crap.
Doesn’t belong on this site.
They have gone mad.
Finally, a new one to add to the list of rhetorical fallacies. We asked a question, we provided an unreadably long discussion of ins and outs of DNS tables, and in the end we conclude, well that we cannot conclude much of anything except that we are the dullest grad-grinds ever employed in the pursuit of a bootless quest that ever existed.
The reason these Tea Leaves don't want their names known (and some folks on the dark web are working on that) is that they will be known as idiots.
Who could ever endorse the validity of ANY Slate article ??? The leftwing media (rather an unnecessary descriptor) is so desperate.
I think it’s great to watch the death throws of H. Rotten Clinton’s doomed presidential campaign.
Actually your friends over at reddit.com/r/The_Donald have figured this out. It was for marketing hotel services by a company Trump hired to market hotel services. The people who registered the website are in the business of marketing hotel services, it turns out.
Yes, but so what??
NY Times walked it back, as did POTUS....seems that they too are getting the message that you don’t poke a nuclear power erroneously - unless you want to start WWIII over a “talking point” for the Democrats.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ggreenwald?p=s
Greenwald in Twitter feed explains this story was “shopped” around including where he works and no one bit...until Slate.
Pretty funny stuff.
I'd expect our government to be snooping/hacking on other foreign governments, however they seem to devote their resources to hack/snoop on its own citizens. They (the US Government) treat us (American citizens) as bigger enemies than they do non-citizens.
The problem here is Trump wouldn't have Classified Government Documents on his servers.
lol...no legs here....complete garbage. Trying to play the russian card is pathetic.
<<<This is total crap.
Doesnt belong on this site.<<<
It certainly does belong on this Site.
Ignoring your Enemy does not make their Lies any less palatable to the weak minded.
I would rather know what they are up to than get blindsided by it after it gains steam.
To ConservativeMind: “Is Hillary a child rapist?”
LOL! No, really, I was talking HYPOTHETICALS.
Oldplayer
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