Trump's 'Missing DNC Server' Is Neither Missing Nor a Server

[Bourbon]

Donald Trump turns to right-wing conspiracy theories when he’s cornered, and he was cornered on Monday. Standing feet away from Vladimir Putin at a press conference following their Helsinki tete-a-tete, a reporter challenged Trump to condemn Putin for Russia’s election interference, “in front of the world.”Instead, the world watched as the President of the United States took Putin’s side against his own Justice Department and his own intelligence agencies, and launched into a rambling discourse about Hillary Clinton’s emails and a supposedly missing DNC server that hides the truth about Putin’s innocence.
“You have groups that are wondering why the FBI never took the server. Why didn’t they take the server? Where is the server, I want to know, and what is the server saying?”


The server is saying shut up.

The “server” Trump is obsessed with is actually 140 servers, most of them cloud-based, which the DNC was forced to decommission in June of 2016 while trying to rid its network of the Russian GRU officers working to help Trump win the election, according to the figures in the DNC’s civil lawsuit against Russia and the Trump campaign. Another 180 desktop and laptop computers were also swapped out as the DNC raced to get the organization back on its feet and free of Putin’s surveillance.

It’s true that the FBI doesn’t have the DNC’s computer hardware. Agents didn’t sweep into DNC headquarters, load up all the equipment and leave Democrats standing stunned beside empty desks and dangling cables. There’s a reason for that, and it has nothing to do with a deep state conspiracy to frame Putin.

Trump and his allies are capitalizing on a basic misapprehension of how computer intrusion investigations work. Investigating a virtual crime isn’t a like investigating a murder. The Russians didn’t leave DNA evidence on the server racks and fingerprints on the keyboards. All the evidence of their comings and goings was on the computer hard drives, and in memory, and in the ephemeral network transmissions to and from the GRU’s command-and-control servers.

When cyber investigators respond to an incident, they capture that evidence in a process called “imaging.” They make an exact byte-for-byte copy of the hard drives. They do the same for the machine’s memory, capturing evidence that would otherwise be lost at the next reboot, and they monitor and store the traffic passing through the victim’s network. This has been standard procedure in computer intrusion investigations for decades. The images, not the computer’s hardware, provide the evidence.


There’s a final bit of evidence that the FBI got what it wanted from the DNC, and it was filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington DC last Friday: 29-pages of inside details showing exactly how and when the GRU’s hackers moved through the DNC’s network on their mission to help Trump.

If the president really wants to know what the DNC server is saying, it’s all in the indictment against Putin’s hackers. He just has to listen.


https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps...erver?ref=home


Technically Challenged ...

[Bourbon]

... But But But Hillary's Servers ...

[rhym3pays]

...but Seth Rich died for your sins

[Bourbon]

...but Seth Rich died for your sins

... and that has what to do with this Tread?

[rhym3pays]

... and that has what to do with this Tread?

The missing server Trump is talking about is the server that Seth Rich courageously stole from the DNC HQ -- in an attempt to bring Hillary to justice for her dastardly deeds. He was murdered before he had a chance to get that server in the hands of justice --- that server is most likely destroyed now -- but Seth's legacy will live on

[Bourbon]

The missing server Trump is talking about is the server that Seth Rich courageously stole from the DNC HQ -- in an attempt to bring Hillary to justice for her dastardly deeds. He was murdered before he had a chance to get that server in the hands of justice --- that server is most likely destroyed now -- but Seth's legacy will live on

Cool Story Bro ...

[katzgar]

The missing server Trump is talking about is the server that Seth Rich courageously stole from the DNC HQ -- in an attempt to bring Hillary to justice for her dastardly deeds. He was murdered before he had a chance to get that server in the hands of justice --- that server is most likely destroyed now -- but Seth's legacy will live on

you are a moron. have someone explain the cloud to you...jesus you are stupid.

[Jarod]

Donald Trump turns to right-wing conspiracy theories when he’s cornered, and he was cornered on Monday. Standing feet away from Vladimir Putin at a press conference following their Helsinki tete-a-tete, a reporter challenged Trump to condemn Putin for Russia’s election interference, “in front of the world.”Instead, the world watched as the President of the United States took Putin’s side against his own Justice Department and his own intelligence agencies, and launched into a rambling discourse about Hillary Clinton’s emails and a supposedly missing DNC server that hides the truth about Putin’s innocence.
“You have groups that are wondering why the FBI never took the server. Why didn’t they take the server? Where is the server, I want to know, and what is the server saying?”


The server is saying shut up.

The “server” Trump is obsessed with is actually 140 servers, most of them cloud-based, which the DNC was forced to decommission in June of 2016 while trying to rid its network of the Russian GRU officers working to help Trump win the election, according to the figures in the DNC’s civil lawsuit against Russia and the Trump campaign. Another 180 desktop and laptop computers were also swapped out as the DNC raced to get the organization back on its feet and free of Putin’s surveillance.

It’s true that the FBI doesn’t have the DNC’s computer hardware. Agents didn’t sweep into DNC headquarters, load up all the equipment and leave Democrats standing stunned beside empty desks and dangling cables. There’s a reason for that, and it has nothing to do with a deep state conspiracy to frame Putin.

Trump and his allies are capitalizing on a basic misapprehension of how computer intrusion investigations work. Investigating a virtual crime isn’t a like investigating a murder. The Russians didn’t leave DNA evidence on the server racks and fingerprints on the keyboards. All the evidence of their comings and goings was on the computer hard drives, and in memory, and in the ephemeral network transmissions to and from the GRU’s command-and-control servers.

When cyber investigators respond to an incident, they capture that evidence in a process called “imaging.” They make an exact byte-for-byte copy of the hard drives. They do the same for the machine’s memory, capturing evidence that would otherwise be lost at the next reboot, and they monitor and store the traffic passing through the victim’s network. This has been standard procedure in computer intrusion investigations for decades. The images, not the computer’s hardware, provide the evidence.


There’s a final bit of evidence that the FBI got what it wanted from the DNC, and it was filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington DC last Friday: 29-pages of inside details showing exactly how and when the GRU’s hackers moved through the DNC’s network on their mission to help Trump.

If the president really wants to know what the DNC server is saying, it’s all in the indictment against Putin’s hackers. He just has to listen.


https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps...erver?ref=home


Technically Challenged ...

Stop trying to bother them with facts!

[rhym3pays]

you are a moron. have someone explain the cloud to you...jesus you are stupid.

Actually you are either stupid, or just completely dense -- I am going with stupid however -- with no sense of wit whatsoever

[Truth Detector]

Stop trying to bother them with facts!

Liberals? Facts?

The DNC servers were destroyed to destroy evidence. The FBI was never given access to the DNC servers. How can our intelligence agencies and the FBI determine who had hacked them without ever seeing the servers?

Why are our intelligence agencies and the media ignoring Wikileaks founder, the benefactor of the hack?

This story is a massive smoke screen to hide the rot and corruption within out Federal bureaucracy and the DNC.

[anatta]

FBI relied on Crowdstrikes forensics..Crowdstrikes has been shown to have done a poor job looking at Ukraine hacks

The FBI did not investigate the network or the computers -it just went with Crowdstrike.

"we are at war" because some 3rd party said Russia was the source of the malware -when in fact that malware was fairly common in use in eastern Europe

[Bourbon]

Actually you are either stupid, or just completely dense -- I am going with stupid however -- with no sense of wit whatsoever

So if you're so smart ... where is that single Server that has all your dreams?

Or did someone smarter that you hide it?

Pick One

[LV426]

The missing server Trump is talking about is the server that Seth Rich courageously stole from the DNC HQ -- in an attempt to bring Hillary to justice for her dastardly deeds. He was murdered before he had a chance to get that server in the hands of justice --- that server is most likely destroyed now -- but Seth's legacy will live on

Did you not read the OP?

There wasn't one server, there were 140 and they had to be decommissioned because your Russian friends were hacking them and had gained access.

If you want to know what was on those servers, Mueller's indictments explain it all.

[LV426]

The DNC servers were destroyed to destroy evidence. The FBI was never given access to the DNC servers. How can our intelligence agencies and the FBI determine who had hacked them without ever seeing the servers

The servers were decommissioned because your Russian friends hacked them and gained access. Everything that was dumped by Wikileaks and your Russian friends is what was on those servers the DNC decommissioned, Reek.

[LV426]

Why are our intelligence agencies and the media ignoring Wikileaks founder, the benefactor of the hack?

They're not, Reek.

Mueller's indictment last week specifically talks about how Wikileaks was in contact with both the GRU and Roger Stone (Roger Stone even admitted he was in contact with both).

Assange didn't hack anything - he posted what the GRU had hacked from the DNC before the DNC decommissioned its servers to stop the hacking.

You don't know what the hell you're talking about.