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grasswire

(50,130 posts)
Mon May 23, 2016, 08:34 PM May 2016

Why Guccifer's pleas change is important.

If Guccifer pleads guilty to hacking Sidney Blumenthal's AOL account, it will show that Clinton’s use of a personal server put sensitive information outside secure government channels and made it accessible to foreign hackers. Hacking Blumenthal is one of nine counts he faces.

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thereismore

(13,326 posts)
1. He did get access to Blumenthal's AOL account, but did he hack into Clinton's server? We still don't
Tue May 24, 2016, 12:22 PM
May 2016

know that for a fact, other than by his assertions. Do we know that she passed any sensitive info *to* Blumenthal? I think we only know that Blumenthal sent *her* classified info and she loved it.

thereismore

(13,326 posts)
4. Yep. She's gonna end up bombing Iran. We can look forward to Sidney Blumenthal as her SoS.
Tue May 24, 2016, 03:02 PM
May 2016

Unless she doesn't get to the WH.

Bob41213

(491 posts)
3. It was beyond poorly secured. You're right we don't *know* yet...
Tue May 24, 2016, 02:23 PM
May 2016

If not him, someone else for sure. There are a bunch of places that have scan results from her computer and they tell you exactly what ports are left open which essentially tells you what was running on the computer. The things Brian Pagliano left open are horribly inept.

Reddit has a fairly good amount of comments about this if you want to search you can see lots https://www.google.com/#q=site:reddit.com+clinton+vpn+rdc of such threads.

A few choice comments from the first two I clicked on:

"Also would like to highlight -- many others do as well -- Remote Desktop from that era being open to the WAN is the most egregious act. It renders the VPN worthless. You can literally search the internet for few minutes and find software ( on sites i do not recommend visiting unless you already know what you're doing ) that'll get you an actual login to the machine"
https://m.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4j2r94/judicial_watch_new_clinton_emails_reveal_clinton/d336scb

"She was in China, sending totally unencrypted email to and from clintonemail.com.
You'd have to be pants-on-head retarded to think that the CCP didn't just scoop up every email she sent and received during that time.
I mean seriously what the fuck? Between that and having RDP and VNC open for years they might as well have printed out her emails on little flyers and air-dropped them over Beijing."
https://m.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4dakga/there_now_seems_to_be_a_very_real_probability/

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