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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWas a Trump Server Communicating With Russia?
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/10/was_a_server_registered_to_the_trump_organization_communicating_with_russia.html
he greatest miracle of the internet is that it existsthe second greatest is that it persists. Every so often were reminded that bad actors wield great skill and have little conscience about the harm they inflict on the worlds digital nervous system. They invent viruses, botnets, and sundry species of malware. Theres good money to be made deflecting these incursions. But a small, tightly knit community of computer scientists who pursue such worksome at cybersecurity firms, some in academia, some with close ties to three-letter federal agenciesis also spurred by a sense of shared idealism and considers itself the benevolent posse that chases off the rogues and rogue states that try to purloin sensitive data and infect the internet with their bugs. Were the Union of Concerned Nerds, in the wry formulation of the Indiana University computer scientist L. Jean Camp.
In late spring, this community of malware hunters placed itself in a high state of alarm. Word arrived that Russian hackers had infiltrated the servers of the Democratic National Committee, an attack persuasively detailed by the respected cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. The computer scientists posited a logical hypothesis, which they set out to rigorously test: If the Russians were worming their way into the DNC, they might very well be attacking other entities central to the presidential campaign, including Donald Trumps many servers. We wanted to help defend both campaigns, because we wanted to preserve the integrity of the election, says one of the academics, who works at a university that asked him not to speak with reporters because of the sensitive nature of his work.
Hunting for malware requires highly specialized knowledge of the intricacies of the domain name systemthe protocol that allows us to type email addresses and website names to initiate communication. DNS enables our words to set in motion a chain of connections between servers, which in turn delivers the results we desire. Before a mail server can deliver a message to another mail server, it has to look up its IP address using the DNS. Computer scientists have built a set of massive DNS databases, which provide fragmentary histories of communications flows, in part to create an archive of malware: a kind of catalog of the tricks bad actors have tried to pull, which often involve masquerading as legitimate actors. These databases can give a useful, though far from comprehensive, snapshot of traffic across the internet. Some of the most trusted DNS specialistsan elite group of malware hunters, who work for private contractorshave access to nearly comprehensive logs of communication between servers. They work in close concert with internet service providers, the networks through which most of us connect to the internet, and the ones that are most vulnerable to massive attacks. To extend the traffic metaphor, these scientists have cameras posted on the internets stoplights and overpasses. They are entrusted with something close to a complete record of all the servers of the world connecting with one another....more
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Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia? (Original Post)
Skidmore
Oct 2016
OP
mainer
(12,031 posts)1. Traitor. If Trump wins, we'd all better learn to speak Russian
Because the tea party just handed over their country to Putin.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)4. We need to hop onto social media and
start demanding that they cover it because this is a national security breach. Push it out there.
mainer
(12,031 posts)5. The message is: the Tea Party is surrendering to Russia
They really are traitors.
rzemanfl
(29,572 posts)6. http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512565092 n/t
napkinz
(17,199 posts)2. I've seen several threads on this story ... hello, MSM, how about some BREAKING NEWS!
scscholar
(2,902 posts)3. I wish they would publish their proof
This could be a huge story.
Koinos
(2,792 posts)7. Excellent and very suggestive article.
I believe that, bit by bit, the Trump-Russia link will come to light.