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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCyber-pro Chris Vickery:GOPs private "subpoena-resistant" servers physically IN Russia.
Last edited Mon Aug 5, 2019, 10:53 PM - Edit history (1)
https://mobile.twitter.com/VickerySec/status/1158455886509035520?lark
(23,099 posts)Traitors to our country & its laws and way of life.
edited for clarity
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)malaise
(268,997 posts)Rec
uponit7771
(90,336 posts)triron
(22,003 posts)FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)Maybe there are secret messages between Chump and Pootie on here? Or between Moscow Mitch and Pootie? This info should go to the Feds immediately.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)padah513
(2,502 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)This is what it says...
"Here it is.
This site is owned/run by a leading GOP digital operative. He runs systems on servers physically located in Russia, and advertised it.
Mitch McConnell is a client. Ben Carson is a client. Gingrich is a client. And many more."
Tell the world."
blm
(113,059 posts)Last edited Mon Aug 5, 2019, 09:28 PM - Edit history (1)
Subpoena-resistant. Geez.
BlueWI
(1,736 posts)Don't know the source. Alarming - but is it true?
blm
(113,059 posts)BlueWI
(1,736 posts)but thanks for the post.
I will look further just to be sure before assuming this is true.
blm
(113,059 posts)Thanks for your OP.
pecosbob
(7,538 posts)didn't exist or no longer exists.
blm
(113,059 posts)Said found thru way back machine
pecosbob
(7,538 posts)on when the screencaps were taken.
blm
(113,059 posts)Going back to 2013-14. Russia must have had a reason for funding and promoting Carson back then.
https://mobile.twitter.com/VickerySec/status/1158178823373897728
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)I don't even have twitter or try it this way....here is a copy of the address.
https://mobile.twitter.com/VickerySec
pecosbob
(7,538 posts)as it would if it had recently been shut down. Not the tweet itself. This is the web address of the site shown in the tweeted screen captures. Also searched the web for info on the site, but found zip, so if it was being advertised it was being done very discreetly.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)I am not tech savvy.
blm
(113,059 posts)The name Ron Robinson is popping up. Gonna dig
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)I think he's a consultant for the FBI, or even if he isn't, he's sending his tweets to the FBI. The web pages Vickery shows in the tweet are snapshots from "Wayback" which freezes old pages that have been deleted. They aren't really deleted, they're rendered inaccessible, but Mr. Vickery knows how to find them.
I think this is sensational and I'm looking forward to learning what else he has.
blm
(113,059 posts)last week.
ancianita
(36,055 posts)blm
(113,059 posts)ancianita
(36,055 posts)Baltimike
(4,143 posts)riversedge
(70,215 posts)lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)Untouchable by the FBI.
ancianita
(36,055 posts)There's still plenty that goes through them and from them that can be confiscated.
This whole silence from the FBI about investigating funds of GOP people really ticks me off.
So they use a Russian cloud.
Interesting.
blm
(113,059 posts)Trying to glean more from the last 2 days of tweets when the first shoe dropped.
ancianita
(36,055 posts)ancianita
(36,055 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)I'm not understanding any of this. It seems to be significant, but I don't know what it all means.
[Ok, I'm older than dirt, and the least tech-savvy person on Earth.] I don't do twitter. I only just got rid of my clam-shell cell phone . . . So, what does this mean ? And where it reads "server" -- is that a person or a device ?
Anybody ? Please, no giggling.
ancianita
(36,055 posts)munications. My son and/or his friends -- or anyone, really -- can use their computer as a server for a network they set up.
But big scale servers exist everywhere from Google to Apple to any Internet Service Provider of any country because they deal with millions of computer users.
Wikipedia, as a global information service, has to use massive server power to enable communications within its content development and relays worldwide.
Read its explanation below. The simplest way I can explain it is as a point of directing Internet traffic or Internet storage of communications.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_(computing)
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)but what is the significance of that in the context of this OP news ?
Subpoena-proof servers means that no one can __________ them. (Fill in the blank for me, please.)
ancianita
(36,055 posts)or clandestine services.
The significance is that a security industry expert dug this info out, somehow and allegedly reported it to the FBI.
Now, perhaps some hackers can hit up the host, civicmerit, and the servers they use in what's called a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. It would slow down the communications of the clients, and it could go on continuously, and it could discourage them from further use of the service.
But likely, the secrecy has been established and much evidence isn't available. It's also hearsay evidence of conspiring with each other through a declared hostile foreign adversary. It's the crime of secrecy, abuse of power, which elected representatives may not engage in and shows bad faith, unethical service, breaking their oaths of office.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Now I understand.
Thank you.
pecosbob
(7,538 posts)The server is owned and maintained by the web hosting service, i.e GoDaddy or COX or whoever. In this case the web server was located in Russia outside of U.S. legal jurisdiction, therefore a U.S. court could not gain access to any data stored there even with a subpeona.
So the service was created to allow Republican American politicos to communicate with each other on sensitive subjects and store sensitive data there in contravention to a number of U.S. laws regarding recordkeeping by government officials.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Does this mean that those servers are . . . "cloud-proof" ? I apologize for my lack of applicable/correct terms.
pecosbob
(7,538 posts)Either your data is stored on your computer (local storage) or on another computer network (cloud storage) usually owned and maintained by large ISPs such as Google and ATT. If you are say a large insurance company you would want to have secure storage for your data and it may be more cost effective to sub-contract the storage of your data to another company, a network storage provider. rather than maintain the equipment yourself. Many of these cloud storage networks are maintained here in the U.S. but some are hosted abroad, where U.S. law enforcement and courts may or may not have access to data stored there.
This server would have very limited access to particular individuals and would act as their own personal cloud or storage space and communications channel safe from the prying eyes of the FBI or Dems or the courts. Evidently it was also acting as a portal for accessing voter information, sort of a 7-Eleven for information to micro-target voters.
So it would be a very special little cloud for a few people and invisible to everyone else.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)So, because this little cloud lives in Russia, American intelligence agencies can't see it.
Now, if you're an American elected official, you'd want to use this little Russian cloud so that no American oversight can "see" what you're up to. Sounds very suspicious to me.
So much for transparency in our government.
pecosbob
(7,538 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)pecosbob
(7,538 posts)Breaking Bad television reference
ancianita
(36,055 posts)Other countries can have their own clouds.
KPN
(15,645 posts)up on this. If it is true, and theres evidence, this really does seem rather treasonous. .... Oh, the webs they weave.
blm
(113,059 posts)After Vickerys find. This story may be breaking wider.
KPN
(15,645 posts)the bloated pig completely fall apart. I just hope theyve changed the code and taken the nuclear button away from him before his break down gets too far. Whoever the fuck they might be.
blm
(113,059 posts)For Ben Carson. 2013-14? Was Carson being groomed as fallback dupe?
https://mobile.twitter.com/VickerySec/status/1158178823373897728