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In reply to the discussion: Mensch's latest is a humdinger: Mike Flynns Treason Tour: Global Russian Propaganda Coordinated Wi [View all]L. Coyote
(51,134 posts)16. Trump's secret server, until detected by the DNC hack investigation anyway, isn't in Trump Tower.
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 Towers Alfa Bank server was inadvertently discovered by a group of computer scientists who had banded together to help protect the American political systems 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 DNCs 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 wasnt 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 Organizations Russian-linked server.
Ive never seen a server set up like that, Franklin Foer quotes Christopher Davis as saying. It looked weird, and it didnt 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.
Slate Contributing editor Franklin Foer reported at the end of October that Trump Towers Alfa Bank server was inadvertently discovered by a group of computer scientists who had banded together to help protect the American political systems 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 DNCs 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 wasnt 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 Organizations Russian-linked server.
Ive never seen a server set up like that, Franklin Foer quotes Christopher Davis as saying. It looked weird, and it didnt 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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Mensch's latest is a humdinger: Mike Flynns Treason Tour: Global Russian Propaganda Coordinated Wi [View all]
MelissaB
Apr 2017
OP
Russia financing the Trump campaign might be the eye-popper to explode wingnut heads.
L. Coyote
Apr 2017
#6
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