{"id":25168,"date":"2015-03-13T10:25:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T14:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25168"},"modified":"2015-03-13T10:28:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T14:28:34","slug":"the-techie-take-on-the-clinton-email-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25168","title":{"rendered":"The Techie Take On The Clinton Email Server"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Rosen<\/a> posted an article at Fox News<\/a> yesterday about some technical people who decided to investigate some of Hillary Clinton’s claims about her private, secure email server<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some findings from the article:<\/p>\n

Now, working with publicly available tools that map network connectivity, experts have established <\/a>that the last \u201chop\u201d before the mail server\u2019s Internet Protocol<\/a>, or IP, address (listed as 64.94.172.146) is Internap<\/a>\u2019s aggregator in Manhattan<\/a> (listed as 216.52.95.10).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cThis is a very strong indication that the clintonemail.com server is in Manhattan,\u201d the source told Fox News. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Obviously the server is not in Chappaqua<\/a> being guarded by the Secret Service–most likely it is in President Clinton’s<\/a> Manhattan office. Not that physically guarding a server is worth anything anyway unless someone is going to steal the server itself.<\/p>\n

The ‘good hackers’ also discovered:<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Perhaps most concerning, private analysts determined that clintonemail.com has been running an older model of Microsoft Internet Information Services<\/a>, or IIS \u2013 specifically version 7.5, which has been documented to leave users exposed on multiple fronts. The website CVEDetails.com, which bills itself as \u201cthe ultimate security vulnerability<\/a> datasource,\u201d is awash with descriptions<\/a> of serious security vulnerabilities associated with version 7.5, including \u201cmemory corruption,\u201d \u201cpassword disclosure vulnerability,\u201d and the enabling of \u201cremote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service.\u201d \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The cyberlab technician who discovered the Clintons\u2019 use of version 7.5 marveled at \u201cthe vulnerabilities the Clintons are ignoring\u201d in an email to Fox News. \u201cThis is a big deal and just the thing real-world hackers look for in a target and will exploit to the max,\u201d the source said. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSeveral of these vulnerabilities have been known since 2010 and yet HRC is running official State comms through it.\u201d \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Just the original decision to use a private email account, with Clinton\u2019s own surname embedded in it, has baffled the hacker community. The analyst with experience in the intelligence community, a \u201cwhite hat\u201d hacker — the kind corporate firms retain to conduct \u201cpenetration testing\u201d that exposes businesses\u2019 cybersecurity lapses — told Fox News: \u201cIf we learned that the foreign minister of a major foreign country was using her own private server to send and receive emails, and was relying on outdated commercial software to operate and protect it, that\u2019d be a hallelujah moment for us.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

As you read this article, please understand a few things. It sounds as if the people who set up the server for the Clintons lacked some of the knowledge they needed to make the server totally secure. Making a server totally secure is nearly impossible and you need really good technical people to do it. If the server was hacked during Mrs. Clinton’s time as Secretary of State, there is no reason to believe that the Clintons or anyone else would know about it. That is a serious problem. The other thing I would appreciate anyone reading this article to be aware of is that I have very little knowledge of how this all works. I have a husband and a daughter that hopefully keep me (and my computer) out of trouble. I do know, however, from being around serious techies that computer security is an issue, particularly in our government. Foreign countries that do not love America are constantly attempting to hack into military, commercial, and government computers. The last thing we need to do is to make it easy for them.<\/p>\n

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