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L. Coyote

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16. Trump's secret server, until detected by the DNC hack investigation anyway, isn't in Trump Tower.
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 12:27 AM
Apr 2017

It is somewhere in Pennsylvania, but the company owning the domain is trump's and that address is in Trump Tower.

The DNC hack inquiry led to discovery of the DNS look-ups, public information. Alfa Bank in Russia communicated with a US server, which turned out to be registered as a trump email server. That IP communicates with Alfa Bank and a DeVos family business server, Spectrum Health controlled by Trump Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and her husband. It may have masked a secret connection to Eric Prince, Betsy's brother. The Russian server connected to trump's about once per hour for four months.

from dKos:

Slate Contributing editor Franklin Foer reported at the end of October that Trump Tower’s Alfa Bank server was inadvertently discovered by a group of computer scientists who had banded together to help protect the American political system’s computer networks from potentially disruptive malware. The formation of the group was spurred by reports that Russian hackers had infiltrated Democratic National Committee computer servers in the spring of 2016. The scientists surmised that if the Russian hackers could break into the DNC’s system, they could also break into other political systems, including the Clinton and Trump campaigns’ servers.

In late July, one of the scientists discovered what identified as malware emanating from Russia. The destination domain name contained the word “Trump.” The scientist enlisted five of his allies to study the irregular contacts, or “pingings,’ between a bank in Russia and the Trump Organization server in Trump Tower. In time, they realized the pinging wasn’t malware. It instead seemed to represent patterns of human conversation that had been occurring for a sustained period of time. In studying the communication between the Russian bank and the Trump Organization, the scientists had been initially confused by the “odd configuration” of the Trump Organization’s Russian-linked server.

“I’ve never seen a server set up like that,” Franklin Foer quotes Christopher Davis as saying. “It looked weird, and it didn’t pass the sniff test.” Davis is the founder and chief executive officer of HYAS InfoSec, Inc., a cybersecurity firm. In 2013, the Federal Bureau of Investigation gave Davis its Award for Excellence for outstanding cybercrime investigation.


So, the FBI got a warrant for the server's communications and they have 100 agents on the case. We are going to find out at some point. My bets are money was being sent from Russia to Trump's campaign.


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Fasten yer seatbelts kids... 2naSalit Apr 2017 #1
I know she has reputation for some extreme conspiracies VigilantG Apr 2017 #2
Mensch has her haters, and I get their distrust Mr. Ected Apr 2017 #3
I think Mensch is wrong about the use of Alfa Bank #TrumpRussia server. L. Coyote Apr 2017 #4
Actually, I like your theory better than Louise's in this case Mr. Ected Apr 2017 #5
Russia financing the Trump campaign might be the eye-popper to explode wingnut heads. L. Coyote Apr 2017 #6
Occam's razor! Mr. Ected Apr 2017 #7
Some of her computer sources are explaining the timing of the communications. pnwmom Apr 2017 #9
Can you help me understand how that works, the money transfers? dixiegrrrrl Apr 2017 #11
Trump's secret server, until detected by the DNC hack investigation anyway, isn't in Trump Tower. L. Coyote Apr 2017 #16
yes, I agree too... there was no need to exchange voter data through the server Fast Walker 52 Apr 2017 #19
In principle it all zentrum Apr 2017 #8
Her explanation is that she was a reporter during the Snowden/Assange/Wikileaks period pnwmom Apr 2017 #10
Thanks pnwmom, that... zentrum Apr 2017 #14
She is British and was a Member of Parliament, has British intel contacts. L. Coyote Apr 2017 #17
Sounds right. Good point. zentrum Apr 2017 #18
K&R... spanone Apr 2017 #12
K&R... spanone Apr 2017 #13
Dang. Holy Cow. byronius Apr 2017 #15
Mensch is a CT nutjob hack89 Apr 2017 #20
So were Woodward and Bernstein, so she is in great company. L. Coyote Apr 2017 #21
No comparison hack89 Apr 2017 #22
kick for visibility triron Apr 2017 #23
kick for visibility triron Apr 2017 #24
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