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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Breaking News: Clinton email server secure - never hacked. [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)75. We don't have any evidence of a non-self-signed certificate either.
And what would a web server be doing at that address other than providing access to email?
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And the government root CA cert is installed by the government IT admins on the client computers
Recursion
Mar 2016
#68
Well, my web server and mail server are at the same IP address and use different certificates
Recursion
Mar 2016
#77
And just to be clear, that was supposed to be "nearly every government mail server"
Recursion
Mar 2016
#81
And a CA-signed certificate only authenticates to the extent you trust the CA. And some of those CAs
Recursion
Mar 2016
#50
Well, first off, you are confusing pre-shared keys with public/private key pairs
Recursion
Mar 2016
#57
Business-level security would be a 3-tier minimum server layer, Bus Architecture to the back-end.
TheBlackAdder
Mar 2016
#20
There's new and there's secure. Play in your world, I have responsibilities to secure billions.
TheBlackAdder
Mar 2016
#25
Let me get this straight! You think a stand-alone server is secure in any configuration?
TheBlackAdder
Mar 2016
#27
Apparently magic gnomes can detect the attack from the compromised server itself.
jeff47
Mar 2016
#45
Thank you - I was scratching my head when I read this. What does this have to do with anything?
jillan
Mar 2016
#30
Great news, if true. Link to FBI confirmation? The article in the OP and what I have read only
morningfog
Mar 2016
#61
Log files are just like any other, subject to edit with tools, including its timestamps!
TheBlackAdder
Mar 2016
#18
no evidence of foreign hacking does not equal "never hacked", but then you might not know that.
Kip Humphrey
Mar 2016
#76