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FBI Said to Examine Whether Hillary Clinton E-Mail Was Backed Up
2015-08-15
[BLOOMBERG] An official says it's one of the next logical steps in the agency's investigation into whether the former secretary of state's private e-mail account handled classified information.
Off-site backup is an elementary step. The Burg, which lives in Baltimore City, backs up three times a day to the very computer I'm using now, which lives in Brooding Castle Rantberg, in one of its 'burbs--you might call it a Rantburb. If the computer the Burg runs on went up in a ball of flame we could be back up and running in a few hours with minimal data loss and only moderate cursing. If clintonmail.com's setup wasn't at least as robust as ours (which really is no great shakes) she should start mailing me some hefty checks and I'll set up her machines (plural) to at least the lower edges of industry standard.
Posted by:Fred

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Posted by: Lone Ranger   2015-08-15 21:37  

#17  
Posted by:    2015-08-15 21:19  

#16  3. For 'selected personnel,' an electron transfer capability (between boxes) does exist.

I would very surprised if that happened or exists. More likely scenario is someone printed off the TS/SCI stuff and scanned it on the low side. Occam's razor and all.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy   2015-08-15 20:57  

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Posted by: Blossom Unains5562   2015-08-15 20:00  

#14  
Trump could buy them from the Ruskies or ChiComs...


Very publicly making the offer would make him very difficult to defeat in the primary.
Posted by: Halliburton - Foreign Affairs Division   2015-08-15 14:23  

#13  https://youtu.be/Prls6Iz3B3E
Posted by: Mugsy Glink   2015-08-15 12:09  

#12  Meanwhile, in Chappaqua, New York:
Posted by: Mugsy Glink   2015-08-15 12:09  

#11  A Lone Ranger post from yesterday.

#5 Something in the story does not add up. To "strip" the TS/SI/TK/NOFORN markings from a document, you fist have to have received the document. Which one of Clinton's aides had the clearance necessary to even RECEIVE the material in the first place?
Posted by Lone Ranger 2015-08-14 22:23|| 2015-08-14 22:23||


There are a few methods in which this could have been accomplished. Yes Ranger, ultimately, someone would have had to have had access to a 'High Side" JWICS (Top Secret box).

1. Printing the TS traffic, removing or blotting out the classification markings, scanning the sanitized paper copy, and saving it to a file on an UNCLAS box for forwarding is one method.

2. A second method would be to copy the TS data from JWICS to a thumb drive or disc, sanitize, then transfer to an UNCLAS box for forwarding.

3. For 'selected personnel,' an electron transfer capability (between boxes) does exist.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-08-15 11:54  

#10  Bravo, Zenobia F!
Posted by: trailing wife   2015-08-15 11:42  

#9  At seeing the sharks with their shutters,
The Saracen siege-captain shudders.
The grand old rag flutters
O'er gargoyles on gutters
And she-goats with gats in their udders.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2015-08-15 10:10  

#8  #6 Happy to know we have a Brooding Castle to fall back on.
Posted by: Shipman


with a moat, and sharks with frigging laser beams on their heads
Posted by: Frank G   2015-08-15 08:49  

#7  Might check with NSA as well as the ChiComs, Russkies and ISIS.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-08-15 07:42  

#6  Happy to know we have a Brooding Castle to fall back on.
Posted by: Shipman   2015-08-15 03:28  

#5  Trump could buy them from the Ruskies or ChiComs...
Posted by: 3dc   2015-08-15 03:15  

#4  I'm pretty sure the only 'intelligence' agencies on the planet who don't have her emails is the agencies of the Justice Department.

Maybe the Chinese, Russians, Iranians, or ISIS can dump us a copy... If we ask real nice.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2015-08-15 02:20  

#3  Platte River irony anyone ?


New IT Threat!

I want to make everyone aware of another new Russian ransomware strain called “Fessleak”. It is a new version that puts its code on system memory and not on the hard drives, meaning that antivirus does not pick it up. Very scary.

This new threat is hidden in malicious ads on popular websites. The hackers display these ads through legit ad networks. End-users visit a major site like Huffington Post, CBS Sports, or Match.com and check out an ad by clicking on it. Clicking that one link is enough to get confronted with a full screen that announces all assets on the computer or worse company network have been encrypted. They are effectively looking for a Bitcoin ransom.

In order to prepare for this and other malicious attacks, we recommend the following…

1. Offsite Backups are key – and historical ones in case the current one is compromised. We recommend true business continuity so if the attack occurs you can be back up quick.
[emphasis added]

2. Patch the Operating System and third party apps as soon as possible.

3. Invest in a new Security Device with UTM Unified Threat Manager (most business class firewalls come with it standard) and/or a good Proxy to block ads centrally rather than machine by machine. (If you are off the network (at home), you should use an AdBlocker plugin for each browser.

4. Pay for a VTA – Vulnerability Threat Assessment so a certified Security company can assess your current environment for weaknesses and holes and recommend immediate solutions to protect you and your business.

5. And most important-Awareness! Educate your employees on what to look for, to avoid, and how to perform safe computer behavior.
[emphasis added]

Be careful out there!

Once again, who are these people....really? And who paid for their services ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-08-15 02:15  

#2  and yes it was an evil thought on my part...
Haven't chatted with them since just before 9-11
Posted by: 3dc   2015-08-15 01:24  

#1  You know... on the off chance... Caida.org might actually have some traffic traces that might contain email/partial-messages (from-to) her server

Just saying... and its an University & Industry sponsored R&D site...
Posted by: 3dc   2015-08-15 01:21  

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