Hillary’s server no security threat but Russians are altering emails?
Let’s see if this old seasoned citizen can get his brain wrapped around this latest bit of liberal lying: Earlier this year the Clinton campaign leaders were on every available news forum in the country assuring us that even if Hillary had used her Chappaqua bathroom server to conduct the business of the nation, there was no harm because there was no evidence that anyone had hacked that totally vulnerable repository of State secrets. All the way back to the Whitewater scandal we have been hearing that first line of defense from the Clinton’s: “There is no evidence”. That has sometimes proved true because the Clinton’s long ago surrounded themselves with a picket of legal gunsels who have proved quite adept at burying incriminating documentation and some would even say witnesses.
So we were pounded with the Democrat talking points that no emails had been hacked and no harm had been done so just move along here. I seem to recall security experts at the time opining that there was no way an unsecured server in Bill’s bathroom could NOT have NOT been hacked by even minimally competent foreign security services, reports that were roundly ridiculed by Democrat sock puppets. Remember the Dems insisting that it was laughable that the Russians could be in possession of all those emails residing in the Clinton crapper?
But now that we know that WikiLeaks possibly has access to everything that was on that illegal server and is releasing it to the public in their digital version of death by a thousand cuts, what a difference has occurred in the Democrat position. Suddenly we are being told by all those same Democrat sock puppets who denied so vehemently that the Russians could conceivably be in possession of Hillary’s emails, that we can’t possibly believe the content of those emails being released by WikiLeaks because they have had their contents altered by the Russians to reflect badly on Clinton because Vladimir Putin is Donald Trump’s BFF and is interfering in the American election process on his behalf.
And some of you want to put these disgustingly inconsistent, incompetent and insidious political thugs in charge of our country? There’s a term for folks like you, too.
Crossposted at American Thinker
Category: Politics
According to Donna Brazille the emails are postmarked Russia.
DKIM says otherwise. Ms. Brazille “speak with forked tongue”.
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=68587
Hondo, the thing that bothers me is that DKIM digital signing and encryption only works for email in transit from one mail daemon to another. It is not a protection against a server itself being compromised.
The server used by Hillary and her minions was apparently using Microsoft Exchange configured for remote desktop. Given the apparent skill level of the tech crew running it, there’s a reasonable possibility it was vulnerable to, for example, a brute-force approach to cracking an administrative password. Once that happens, any email on the system could have been read in clear text the same as if it was by an administrator or a legitimate end user. Including any message archives.
I realize there are a lot of variables and speculation involved, but just because no apparent evidence was found of a security breach doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. The system might simply not have been set up to cope with and/or log such an intrusion.
DKIM operates by using a signer key to digitally sign outgoing mail. That positively verifies server of origin and (because it calculates a digital signature over the message) can also be used to determine whether the message has been modified after sending. (If it has been modified, the digital signature won’t check out as valid.)
If the message originated at “hillaryclinton.com”, DKIM verifies that a sender with an account on that machine sent it. The fact that the DKIM signature on the Brazille email in question checks as being valid shows that that message hasn’t been modified post-transmission.
Sloppy administration may well have been true regarding her original “homebrew” server used while she was SECSTATE. However, the Brazille emails in question were sent far later – last year or earlier this year, I believe. Those originated from an email server run by Google; Google knows what they’re doing. Further: the Google server’s DKIM implementation for “hillaryclinton.com” at the time Brazille sent her email also used a 1024-bit RSA key. At this time, RSA keys of that length are not considered vulnerable to a brute-force attack.
Besides, if someone was able to hack into the server, as commenter LC observed in comments to my article on the subject (linked above) it begs credibility to think this is the worst message they’d forge. With that kind of access, they could easily have forged far more damaging material. Ditto if they’d have managed to either break the server’s private DKIM key or obtain it via other means.
Bottom line: Brazille has flat-out been caught lying. Those later “hillaryclinton.com” emails with valid DKIM signatures were sent from that server and have not been altered post-transmission.
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Not orange, well-maintained, carries vehicle and foot traffic, rock solid foundation. Call me!
BASE Jump!
Yeah!!!
Cubs 9 Indian 3. Life is good in my kingdom.
Chapman ok tonight? I think so.
All hands on deck for both teams tonight – everyone is available.
Been wearing my 1908 style Cubs hat – pulling for the Cubs to do it.
Everyone? Even Schwarber? Thought he wasn’t cleared, but you know he’ll be there, regardless.
He can swing a bat and PH… was not cleared to play in the field by the medical staff.
Arrieta pitched last night – maybe, if needed, he can pitch in short/situation relief (one or two batters).
It’s all on the line for both teams… someone’s streak will end.
Cough, Kirk Gibson, cough.
I’m telling ya – it’s gonna happen. (smile) Warning: clip is NSFW.
Some of you people want to put them in office?
I think you meant to say, you liberal white guilt asswipes and your non-working allies….
Email headers and signatures are appropriate to having come from the Clinton private server, the thing is those who love her don’t care what she’s done anymore than the folks on the Trump side care about sexual abuse claims or bankruptcy or any of a host of other interesting aspects of the Trumpster…the partisans on both sides are deeply entrenched, which is why the election hangs on the margin of error.
This election comes down to the few folks who are going to hold their nose and vote on Tuesday…a 1% shift either way and you have a potential landslide for the dems or a pull a rabbit out of a hat win for Trump…it’s getting ever more entertaining.
I’ll be holding my nose on Tuesday and voting for Trump. The only way I can soothe my conscience is believing that I’m not voting FOR Trump, I’m voting AGAINST Hillary. To quote a great blogger that’s moved on, It is to weep.
We’ve had early voting for the last week and I’ve voted for Trump every day….
I see what you did there…
Well shit, I thought I was the only one who voted daily for the past week.
With his mad computer skilz, I think Hondo has voted several times an hour, every hour, in several jurisdictions, every day early voting has been going on.
Nah, Hondo don’t play that.
lol
So you don’t vote (D) then…
I’m voting for Phil Monkress. Phil Monkress represents change. Like how he changed the All Points Logistics website from stating that he was a Navy SEAL to no mention of it. Not only, he was able to change Psaul from a semi-literate mid-level executive flunky into a Vice President of a proud woman owned business.
Here here.
Now finally someone on here talking some common sense…..
Fuck the Donks, DNC, FSA, BLM, RINOs and any other pussy communist/socialist that wants to take this country further down the sewer of hate and discontent. Trump isn’t the “next Reagan” that we need right now, but maybe, just maybe, he can stop the insanity that seems to have creeped over this country for some time.
Hitlery Cankles and Slick Willie should be in jail, along with their minions for the endless crap that they have pulled over the years. Both of them make the Mafia look like amateurs.
What. He. Said.
Hey. I have a question. What about Assange? What is to be done with him? Do we regard him as a criminal or a hero?
At this point…he can fuck my sister.
Why would you do that to your sister? Why? WHY?????
I wouldn’t do that to a barrel cactus.
mmmmmm….barrel cactus
Okay, after he’s done there, we can give him a medal and then put him in jail. All bases will covered.
Hitlery wanted Assange “droned” when she was SoS… she was probably crapping her pants when he came onto the scene years ago.
It’s hard to get hit by a bus when one is holed up in a building.
If Cankles wins Tuesday, Assange will be a dead man walking.
He’s got that whole clorox-bleached, kabuki, night of the living dead thing happening.
That’s what happens when you live in a bedroom, I guess.
Understand that I am more afraid of the people that Hillary is going to bring with her into high public office, than just her. On top of that, there’s all those markers from the FOBs that will be called in.
I do not like having the national budget diverted to the enrichment of FOBs. If they want more money, they can deliver something of value to other ordinary citizens, just like the rest of us.
There is currently no evidence that the Clinton e-mail server was hacked.
The Podesta e-mails which Wikileaks are releasing were obtained by hacking his Gmail account (via a phishing mail, which ironically an IT staff member apparently told him was legitimate). That’s not the same thing as the Clinton server.
Now, do I believe the Clinton server was hacked? Abso-fucking-lutely. I will be incredibly disappointed in our foreign adversaries if they weren’t laughing their asses off as they read everything while listening to Clinton and the FBI say there is no evidence of it being hacked. There wouldn’t be, because it lacked basic ‘tripwire’ security functions and logging. Lack of evidence is not the same as lack of access.
But the current Wikileaks leaks (that is, Podesta’s e-mails) are not proof that the Clinton server was hacked.
Well, while that may be true, it’s still quite a humorous note that the last 4 days have been filled with the fallout of a pedophile wrecking Clinton’s campaign. Trump may have done some damage over the last year but a little weeny picture taking sex pervert is bringing down the Clinton’s. And they deserve all the perversion they get.
Yet at the same time, a certain cigar aficionado continues to get a pass from the press after taking 26 trips on a private jet sometimes referred to as the “Lolita Express” – and ditching their Secret Service protective detail at least five times when flying on that private jet. Go figure.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/05/13/flight-logs-show-bill-clinton-flew-on-sex-offenders-jet-much-more-than-previously-known.html
The irony is that if Hillary and her band of miscreants took that annual cyber security training that us slimy contractors, military and government employees are required to complete, they may have not taken a bite out of that poisoned apple. This shit is better than watching Psaul commit career self murder on the internet.
I made mention earlier, perhaps at another site, that Hillzy’s server likely was hacked by the Russians, Chinese, NORKs, Iranians, several 14 and 15 year old kids bored to tears who decided to see what they could find on the internet, the Canadians(not the hockey team) and a couple of beginning computer classes in senior citizen centers in many Florida retirement communities.
You left out Elaine Ricci.
#HackedAccountsMatter!
They must have erased “yoga” and put in “drone strike”. Poor little battered Hillary. Were all going to have to write in “Grumpy Cat” now 🙁
https://www.facebook.com/GrumpyCat4President/
In West Virginia’s 2012 presidential primary, a fellow by the name of Judd pulled 42.28% of the votes cast BY DEMOCRATS for president. You might remember the story. Judd, you see, was serving hard time in Texas and, with all that time on his hands, he filed to run in West “By God” Virginia. Needless to say, Baracka is not popular in WV. This time around, instead of the state’s D selection being in the joint, she is headed to one.
Word.
AAaahhh, to watch the idjits (D) side shit themselves while in a panic…
*munching on popcorn*
Who said popcorn?
Hold on a minute. This evolving spectacle may require much more than mere popcorn.
This may actually require the emergency issue of Hot ‘N Spicy fried pork rinds to all hands on Team TAH.
https://www.google.com/search?q=spicy+pork+rinds&biw=1920&bih=949&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwil8rbm9orQAhWDQyYKHcKZAu0Q_AUIBygC
Said Hot ‘N Spicy fried pork rinds shall be accompanied by gallons of ice cold beer, of course, in strict compliance with applicable regulations and local SOPs.
MMmmmmm, pork rinds…
Speakin’ of spicy, we need to bug Ex-PH2 for her jalapeno popcorn recipe!!
I never use jalapen-yeos. Don’t like the heat. I prefer something much more subtle and lasting, possibly smokey with undertones of telicherry pepper.
Might consider a bit of chipotle. So long as you go easy, the heat isn’t overpowering – and it’s flavor is quite different than standard jalapeno.
“shall be accompanied by gallons of ice cold beer”
Word, gonna need it on election day….
Is it too late to invest in popcorn futures?
It is never too late….
“Whaddaya got? You’ve been reviewing that stuff for hours.”
“I got 36 pics of Weiner’s dick and 2,179 emails forwarded to or sent directly to Huma by The Bitch.”
I wonder what would happen to an attorney who handled their clients confidential information with the same care that Hillary handled State Dept. information.
Oh, I think someone we “know and love” might be able to answer that question.
Timeactual, that is actually an excellent rebuttal to those Democrats who claim that what Hillary did was harmless. Same holds true for brokerages and other financial institutions.
I’m thinking I may write a piece based on your suggestion.
You left out doctors, Poetrooper.
I just finished writing the piece, Ex-PH2, and you will be pleased to know that physicians are prominently featured.
Of course you won’t see it unless Jonn approves and posts.
That’s okay. The Cubs won the World Series 8 to 7 in overtime in Cleveland, 10 innings, rain delay, etc. There’s a lot of history to review between 1908 and 2016.
That’s what happens when you fail to play the proper clip on the scoreboard paying homage to Jobu – bats stay afraid. They should have listened to me and played the sanitized clip. (smile)
Too bad. Was hoping my relative would see Cleveland win one more WS while he was still with us. Oh well – at least he got to see the 1948 win.
Well, there’s always next year, Hondo.
For me, very likely. But you never know.
For someone already in their 90s, the odds get substantially longer.
So if the Russians are actually altering Hillarys e-mails, how would you prove that unless she was to release all the deleted e-mails to compare them to?
Do you mean she wants us to take her word for it?
Well, but she doesn’t have any deleted e-mails, right? Because if she did, they wouldn’t really be deleted, would they?