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Hacking Forensic Investigator: Lerner's Emails Are Retrievable
Breitbart TV ^ | June 23, 2014 | Ian Hanchet

Posted on 06/23/2014 3:54:23 PM PDT by bkopto

Vinnie Troia, the CEO of Night Lion Security and a computer hacking forensic investigator stated that even though the IRS cancelled its contract with e-mail backup service, the agency’s e-mails are still stored off-site and should be retrievable.

Troia pointed out that “even according to the 2012 and 2013 audits which were performed on the IRS systems, they were shown to have back-ups that were fully functional, back-ups that were offsite and tested to be properly off-site,” adding “those back-ups do exist somewhere. It is just a matter of finding them and going after them.”

He also reported that the 2013 audit of the IRS’ computer services showed that “the IRS is ignoring really basic fundamental security procedures like even updating their systems.”

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KEYWORDS: destroyedevidence; emails; irsscandals; obamacrimes
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1 posted on 06/23/2014 3:54:23 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: bkopto

That’s more like it, someone who actually knows what they’re doing.


2 posted on 06/23/2014 3:58:03 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: bkopto

Cue the crickets at washingtoncompost.com


3 posted on 06/23/2014 3:58:55 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: bkopto

“those back-ups do exist somewhere”

Unless Barry gets to them first.


4 posted on 06/23/2014 3:58:58 PM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: Kenny

” That’s more like it, someone who actually knows what they’re doing. “

did you ntice these people are not from the administration...that’s why they know what they’re doing!


5 posted on 06/23/2014 3:59:55 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Bush won the War in Iraq, Obozo lost the peace..and gave Iraq back to the Terrorists!)
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To: bkopto

Lerner belongs on a pike with barbs. Here’s what actually happened.

SHE destroyed her hard drive in coordination with other top officials

Those hard drives were recycled to leave no trace

With this in mind, why has there been not a single arrest!


6 posted on 06/23/2014 4:00:59 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: bkopto

Vinnie, we’d like you to bring in your last 20 years of receipts please and a statement from you denying you have ever met a conservative


7 posted on 06/23/2014 4:01:45 PM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: bkopto
Money talks, lets start a retrieval fund.
8 posted on 06/23/2014 4:02:34 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: bkopto
"It is just a matter of finding them and going after them.”

Issa? Republicans? Beuller? Beuller?

9 posted on 06/23/2014 4:05:01 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: bkopto

Hopefully it was the tech people that put together healthcare.gov that’s tried to hide the emails. That would make them easy to find.


10 posted on 06/23/2014 4:09:29 PM PDT by boycott
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To: Viennacon
With this in mind, why has there been not a single arrest!

If you were part of this criminal DOJ would you arrest yourself?

11 posted on 06/23/2014 4:10:54 PM PDT by Lakeshark
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To: Viennacon
With this in mind, why has there been not a single arrest!

Exactly.
We have all known this was a lie from day 1. We have all known if any of us tried to pull this excuse when accused of insider trading, or covering up some other liability -- we'd be arrested.
I am not saying that these people need to be in jail because I take any particular pleasure in someone else's misery -- it is just that we need to be a nation of laws or we become a nation of outlaws. These government bureaucrats are casting themselves as untouchable royalty -- and our royal representatives don't care (because they are above the law too), and the Media enables these actions because the crimes were committed by their political and spiritual brethren.

12 posted on 06/23/2014 4:12:53 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: bkopto
Why does everyone think she used government Email for these critical communications? She could have just as easily used a free account at Yahoo, Google or numerous others providers.

Without a specific Email address to track it is all lost in the noise.

Taking the 5th and trashing her hard drive hides the Email address she was using. Specifically it hides the connection between her and the Email account wherever it was.

So to me, the key is finding out what the Email address is and therefore where it was hosted. If it can be found, the Email can be retrieved.

Finding it I believe is possible based on the IP address of her computer/office. With that IP address the hosting companies can be searched for whatever accounts are associated with it.

And then all will be exposed.

13 posted on 06/23/2014 4:20:19 PM PDT by DB
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I’ve been saying this for a while, there has to be a backup somewhere.

They’ve stated that the employees had a storage limit on their mailboxes, and after that limit was reached, employees would have to archive their messages on their personal machines, which is how the emails got lost. However, in an Exchange database, you would still be able to retrieve all of those messages, even if they got transferred out of the system to a workstation.

You see, in Exchange, the mail database must be backed up regularly, and until all the messages are backed up, Exchange keeps transaction logs from which all the un-backed up messages can be reconstructed. If your backup isn’t working, the logs pile up, and are not deleted until the next backup is complete. A smaller company might overwrite backup tapes and lose messages eventually, but the government does offsite backups so there is a copy of the messages somewhere.


14 posted on 06/23/2014 4:22:26 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: bkopto

bkmk


15 posted on 06/23/2014 4:34:50 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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What are the odds that the first EMP attack on USA soil will be launched by Obama himself to destroy these email archives?

-PJ

16 posted on 06/23/2014 4:37:30 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Boogieman

I agree. The emails exist someplace. If they did use third party accounts, those will also be found, but probably only by a truly independent prosecutor with a huge staff.


17 posted on 06/23/2014 4:42:28 PM PDT by Thickman (Obama - President Ubiquitous (a.k.a. P.U.))
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To: Boogieman

From an earlier thread:

I am an I.T. professional and have been for 30 years. I will GUARANTEE those emails are recoverable.

The IRS uses what is called an Exchange server. EVERYTHING that uses Outlook is stored in an .OST file on a SERVER. In the case of the IRS it is almost with certainty that server is located within a data center. That server and probably hundreds of others are backed up with multiple backups AND in other locations.

If the hard drive in a users PC crashes, burns, stolen or whatever, you simply plug in a new one, reconfigure Outlook to grab the .OST file from the server and magically all of your email, folders, contact list, calendar, etc,etc,etc, come back to life on the PC.

Now, these servers are configured with RAID drives that mirror each other. If one goes bad the others keep running. All you do is plug in a new drive and it mirrors again. Plus the servers are mirrored as well. It’s called FAULT TOLERANT.

Even if somebody destroyed the actual .OST files and the backups from the servers. The RECIPIENTS still have those emails and...they are on servers as well.

I would have EVERY computer, tablet, smart phone and any other devices seized from Lerner and EVERYBODY in her contact list as a start. Then I would seize the servers and subpoena EVERY person involved in the administration of those servers. Answers would come swiftly if facing jail time.

The IRS is a criminal organization so you have to think like a criminal. Thing is, they always screw up somewhere.


18 posted on 06/23/2014 4:56:43 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: bkopto
“those back-ups do exist somewhere. It is just a matter of finding them and going after them.”

Paging Mr. Snowden...

19 posted on 06/23/2014 5:09:01 PM PDT by Always A Marine
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...none of which prevents a user from DELETING a message from their mailbox.
It may take a while to percolate through all of the various redundancies, but eventually it WILL be irrecoverable, unless there happens to be a backup set from the time in question, or if the messages were also dumped into an archive someplace.

Everyone please repeat after me:

RAID is NOT backup.
Backup is NOT archiving.

Backups will eventually be overwritten, unless there is a specific policy in place to preserve them for archival purposes. Otherwise you need to be creating a separate archive and preserving that someplace.


20 posted on 06/23/2014 5:51:46 PM PDT by Edward Teach
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