2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMedia Matters and Peter Fidler miss point
But to Peter Fidler, president of the tech firm WCA Technologies in New York, the story is much less alarming.
"It's not unusual at all" that there would be attempts to hack into her server, Fidler said when we spoke with him by phone on Thursday. "Basically what it means -- a hacking attempt they'll try to log in as admin, sysadmin, administrator ... they'll try many different types of names and not give up. We used to see that a lot. We would capture all these things and then block entire countries."
http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/10/09/washington-post-debunks-misleading-ap-report-on/206082
But Hillary's server lacked any security at all for months, leaving it totally open to hackers that are "not unusual at all" and that they "used to see a lot."
And her server wasn't monitored the way a government or professional setup would be, so they wouldn't "capture all these things."
In fact, the five phishing attempts were found not due to monitoring, but do to her inexplicably saving the memos with their attachments. You know, those types of emails that companies occasionally send warnings about to not open the attachment and delete immediately...
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portlander23
(2,078 posts)Stories like these is just the media spinning out more content. The reality is if the server were actually compromised, it might not be detectable. Talking about attempts doesn't amount to much.
The only question in this story, one that has yet to be credibly answered, is why did a high ranking government official conduct all official business through a private server that shields those communications from FOIA requests and oversight?
The fact that current oversight activities are a political witch hunt does not change the fact that this is super shady and should not be tolerated in an country with "open" government.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Talk about fishing.....keeping the fraudulent hoaxes of BGazhi and EGazhi alive is a job for the RW.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Matters, hacking attempts happen all the time. It is a fact that 5 phishing attempts were found among Hillary's emails so far.
So I'm not sure what is the "non-factual" viewpoint, and I don't care what other individual's or group's viewpoints are.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Why do so many on the LW love the server story more than the RW? Who does that help?
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)And attacking Media Matters to boot!
Come on, the obviousness of it all is truly painful to observe for those of us who support the Democratic Party above all else on offer in the camp being built across the River of Lies that should be the camp under attack.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,708 posts)There is a contingent here who is incessantly flogging this story because they believe it will help their candidate. It is empirically obvious.
magical thyme
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frylock
(34,825 posts)have actual real world experience working within the industry as system, network, or mail admins. Maybe even security engineers. People that have an understanding of best practice, and why those standards are set. Some of us even work under the constraints of HIPAA regs, and understand the importance of monitoring information that gets sent back and forth, and censoring private information if the need arises. It has also been my observation that the vast majority of people trying to brush this off as no big deal would likely struggle in configuring an email client to access their POP account.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Very telling.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,708 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Cheers.
