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.
Who was that person, I wonder?>>>>>>>Monica Lewensky!
What matters is whether or not it is protected against hackers or other unauthorized access. Who exactly maintains this equipment and the Clinton Foundation network??
She said ‘Secret Service’ ....
I’m wondering since it appears Obama is leaving her out to dry, what she has on Obama. Wouldn’t there be emails demonstrating Obama’s desire to keep the Muslim Brotherhood in charge of Africa, what happened in Benghazi, his early outreach to Iran, his comments about Russia, etc. That would all be in there. The door swings both ways and if she goes down, she’s the kind of person that takes others down with her. I think her little statement about the letter from Republicans to Iran was her way of saying she’s playing team ball.... for now.
That’s what I thought...
Good point.
Huma remains Hillary's Right hand...here at her e-mail speech at the UN
Huma's mother holds high level position with Muslim Brotherhood...here she is with Hillary at the hamptons.s this year.
Huma Abedin, with Muslim Brotherhood and Hillary at State Dept........
(Daily Mail) – At least three top Hillary Clinton aides used email addresses hosted on the former secretary of state’s private server while she was in office, according to reports from two different news outlets.
A conservative magazine reported Wednesday that Clinton’s State Department chief and deputy chief of staff both had the private addresses.
‘Two of Hillary Clinton’s top aides used personal email while they were employed at the State Department,’ Weekly Standard senior writer Stephen Hayes said in a Fox News Channel interview, naming ‘Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff.’
More of the Muslim Brotherhood infiltration and galdy welcomed by Clinton as Huma is her right hand gal
Secrets and more secrets in the ears of the wrong people...Hillary and Huma at the UN
aides 'Huma Abedin' and 'Cheryl Mills' also used the “clintonmail” personal email scheme to communicate and avoid disclosure.
Now the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Huma and Cheryl were 'key players' in the original plan to set up the communication network.
The “inner circle” around Hillary is comprised of Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, Philippe Reines, Jake Sullivan, Capricia Marshal and Maggie Williams – in that order.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/03/11/report-on-hillary-email-apparently-it-was-huma-abedin-and-cheryl-mills-executing-the-plan/
Mrs. Clinton’s aide, Huma Abedin, approached Mr. Clinton’s staff about piggybacking on the server, they were initially skeptical that it technically could handle the additional load. But requests from Mrs. Clinton were nothing they took lightly and they complied, people familiar with the matter said
Oh no.
See, she logged off the secure server (where a VPN or login card required) after she finished each of her once per hour Secretary of State emails and logged back on to the open server every time she sent a once-per-hour email to Chelsea about yoga and wedding dresses.
Then she logged back in to her secure server for her next Secretary of State email.
Yeah, right.
Hackers, probing Clinton server, cite security lapses
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/03/12/hackers-probing-clinton-server-cite-security-lapses/
Now, working with publicly available tools that map network connectivity, experts have established that the last “hop” before the mail server’s Internet Protocol, or IP, address (listed as 64.94.172.146) is Internap’s aggregator in Manhattan (listed as 216.52.95.10).
“This is a very strong indication that the clintonemail.com server is in Manhattan,” the source told Fox News.
By entering the IP address for the Internap aggregator into existing databases, the experts obtained the exact geolocation coordinates for the aggregator – revealed to be on lower Broadway, at the intersection with Chambers Street, some two blocks north of City Hall. This in turn suggests that the Clinton server itself lies within close proximity – most likely former President Clinton’s Harlem office, and not as far away as the Clintons’ home in Chappaqua, N.Y.
That outside experts could so swiftly unearth such information left them convinced that the server remains, as presently configured, highly “vulnerable” to unauthorized intrusion – even if, as most observers suspect, the server, with so much publicity now attendant on it, is no longer in active use. The hackers further concluded that Clinton’s email operation was likely not much better secured when she was secretary of state.
Couple that with who deleted the emails? Huma and the MB? Did they all have Top Secret security clearances? Who maybe downloaded the whole server on a thumb drive? The burden of proof is on Hillary to proof her system wasn't hacked, either in house or by super-hackers. She can't prove this. There's no way of knowing and we can't take the risk.
All of this means she's subject to blackmail and maybe bribery (both ways).
These facts preclude her from ever running for President of the United States.
This potential loss of National Security Top Secret and other levels of Classified Information deserves a Special Select Committee investigation as soon as possible.
And, without access to all of the material on the server, we must assume that she is irretrievably compromised and cannot ever run for, or be, president.
There...is...no...other...answer.
As in hdr22@clintonemail.com...???
That address is occupied by a company called HDR Inc.
As in hdr22@clintonemail.com...???
As in Hillary Diane Rodham (her middle name is Diane)
If you are talking about the physical security of the server. What if ione of those drunk secret service agents was guarding it, and his gin n tonic was spilled on it?
Fizzle - steam - pop
It's her turn, she has waited long enough. Why, we shouldn't even have an election, she should just take office as soon as the Islamic Kenyan leaves. Why? Because it's time for Hillary.
Spam service used is run by MacAfee/Intel and likely is hosted on a distributed cloud.
Likely only the American people are the only ones not able to access her e-mail.
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