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EMAILS: KEY SECURITY FEATURES DISABLED ON CLINTON'S SERVER
Associated Press ^ | 07/22/2016 | Michael Biesecker and Ted Bridis

Posted on 06/22/2016 1:03:23 PM PDT by safetysign

Edited on 06/22/2016 4:29:20 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Newly released emails show State Department staffers wrestled in December 2010 over a serious technical problem with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's home email server. They temporarily disabled security features, which left the server more vulnerable to hackers. Weeks later, hackers attacked the server so seriously it was shut down.

AP update: This version updates with State Department clarifying that security features on the department’s computer system were disabled. An earlier version reported that the security features on Clinton’s home server were disabled.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 201012; 5a; clinton; clintongate; email; hillary; hillarycriminalprobe; hillaryemailserver; jw; security; securitydisabled
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To: Ms Mable
"I’ve said it before....this is how Iran intercepted our drone!"

100% Agreed.

Did we (0dunga) destroy it? No.

Did we (0dunga) retrieve it? No.

Did we (0dunga) LET THEM HAVE IT? Yes.

41 posted on 06/22/2016 2:19:48 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Females DESTROYED America.)
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To: safetysign
Why the hell this DOB isn't in jail is an insult to each and EVERY American. This reflects how brainwashed my fellow Democrats are.
42 posted on 06/22/2016 2:21:57 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: FredZarguna

You forgot “In over their boots” which in IT parlance means incompetent hacks.


43 posted on 06/22/2016 2:25:42 PM PDT by Orbiter
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To: COUNTrecount

Hillary’s email handle is “hrod”...?!?!

Clearly a reference to her abilities with a strap on!


44 posted on 06/22/2016 2:26:43 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Agree!

They over-road our system and landed it. They had to have had “inside” information to pull that off, IMO.


45 posted on 06/22/2016 2:28:33 PM PDT by Ms Mable
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To: Boogieman
But those types would never have gotten to the server. The Russians, Chinese, and North Koreans are scanning billions of ports per second 24/7/365. Once they realized what they were into, they'd have taken active measures to freeze the amateurs out. The probability that jay random dumbot hit the server first is vanishingly small.

I've actually seen cases where, once in the knickers, intruders have patched all the exploits, including the one that got them inside in the first place so they could operate without worrying about other hacks.

46 posted on 06/22/2016 2:44:23 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Fifth Avenue to be Born?)
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To: Orbiter

My reply to that is at #46.


47 posted on 06/22/2016 2:44:52 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Fifth Avenue to be Born?)
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To: Qiviut
Willful ignorance or deliberate attempt to mislead?

You misunderstood my intent. My question is whether the AP story was mere cluelessness or disinformation. The suggestion is that the server was vulnerable, and as a result was shut down. This suggests they were able to detect intrusion, mitigating the damage. I seriously doubt they were.

48 posted on 06/22/2016 2:48:16 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Fifth Avenue to be Born?)
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To: Steely Tom
I wouldn’t be surprised if malware permeated the entire State Department communications system, and maybe that of the whole Federal Government.

You raise a powerful question which I haven't seen addressed anywhere yet, and that is the issue of foreign intelligence services and even run of the mill hackers not only breaking IN to Hiliarly's email server (which was connected to the 'official' State Department servers and networks), but infiltrating and infecting those systems with malware, spyware, keyloggers, all of that stuff, and the performance of the State Department IT staff doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
49 posted on 06/22/2016 2:59:55 PM PDT by mkjessup (Mop Up *ZOT* operations are still underway. See a subversive anti-Trump troll? Notify the mods!)
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To: safetysign
Two things that are missing here:

1) Breathlessly reporting that this-or-that vulnerability existed on the server is fine, but distracts from the main issue, to wit: why did Grandma Nixon subvert the existing protocol? There is only one reason she would have done so: so that nefarious practices could remain undetected -- or what amounts to the same thing based on what we know about Hillary's standard past practice -- unusable by law enforcement.

2) Take it as a given that the number of people who attacked her server was probably quite large. So what then? The first people who should have known, or suspected these practices were in signal intelligence, particularly the NSA. Why did NSA not patch her server without the knowledge of her IT people? That is certainly within their capability, and based on this article it seems likely her IT crew would never have been any wiser. Is this another example of "interviewed the guy twice, had numerous reports of murderous intent including a heads-up from a gun dealer, but 'somehow' he managed to slip through the cracks to shoot a hundred people?"

NSA had numerous requests from State to supply Her Thighness with "special" equipment because she was so inept. Did they really do nothing while all this was going on?

50 posted on 06/22/2016 3:05:13 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Fifth Avenue to be Born?)
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To: mkjessup
Bigger question is: given that State had made numerous requests to NSA to get "special" equipment to Grandma Nixon because of her incompetence, what -- if any -- countermeasures did our signal counterintelligence people perform? If none, that would be a Pearl Harbor sized failure.
51 posted on 06/22/2016 3:07:25 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Fifth Avenue to be Born?)
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To: FredZarguna

You like telling scary bedtime stories to your kids at night, don’t you Fred?

Damn, that IS serious.


52 posted on 06/22/2016 3:09:46 PM PDT by mkjessup (Mop Up *ZOT* operations are still underway. See a subversive anti-Trump troll? Notify the mods!)
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To: FirstFlaBn
Change the password to PASSWORD?

Do you think these people are stupid and incompetent

They used 123456789 for the new password

53 posted on 06/22/2016 3:25:23 PM PDT by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Milleraereh)
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To: mkjessup
You like telling scary bedtime stories to your kids at night, don’t you Fred?

My children are all adults, but I did indeed enjoy that (so did they, or I wouldn't have kept doing it.)

The monster under the bed is a lot scarier when he's invisible.


54 posted on 06/22/2016 3:26:03 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Fifth Avenue to be Born?)
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To: safetysign
Hillary in the server....taking the calls and routing the bribes to the Clinton's Foundation.


55 posted on 06/22/2016 3:27:45 PM PDT by spokeshave (Somewhere there is a ceiling for Trump.....Yeah, it's called The Oval Office)
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To: safetysign
The dumb bitch did it on purpose!

Of course she did - that was the POINT.

Otherwise, what would she have had to sell?

56 posted on 06/22/2016 3:32:33 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: I want the USA back

She knew enough to be very, VERY dangerous...SMH.


57 posted on 06/22/2016 3:35:13 PM PDT by Shady (We are at war again......this time for our lives...)
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To: henkster
The problem is that the stupid b**** didn’t realize the real intel pros in Russia and China were getting all of that and more for free.

No, she knew. It was a combo sell/give away plan. Everything. All of it. The entire US confidential network.

She gave it ALL away to our enemies, on purpose.

58 posted on 06/22/2016 3:41:22 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: safetysign

1. The degree of security is inversely proportional to the degree of convenience, so given that Crooked Hillary was unable to even power on a desktop PC, I’d say security had to be pretty lax even under the best of circumstances, just so that screeching harridan could manage to read her email.

2. If the email server was a Windows box, then just forget about security all together as Windows is almost impossible to fully secure even by very knowledgeable professionals.

[As an aside, I’d LOVE to see a comedy sketch in which an Indian scam artist claiming to be from Microsoft calls Hillary and convinces her that her email server has been detected leaking viruses all over the place and then proceeds to lead her down an obvious path where the scamster uploads all of her email: something to the effect, “Oh I think I see the problem; it’s that .pst file right there; and it looks infected to me so I’ll have to copy it to my own server to properly analyze it, and oh, what was your email password again, because I’ll need that too for proper virus detection.]


59 posted on 06/22/2016 3:44:44 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: safetysign

The features were not disabled on Clinton’s server, it’s was the State Dept servers that had security disabled!


60 posted on 06/22/2016 3:50:30 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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