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2018-07-03 -Lurid Crime Tales-

In Newly Obtained Memo, Congress TOP COP Said House Dem Caucus Server Vanished

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 but the Awans’ physical access was not blocked.

Physical access is total access.

Given the high value of the information obtainable from Congressional IT I suspect that the Awans did some spying using customized hardware that would store information and be swapped regularly. Think keylogging USB keyboarda, storage devices/NICs with customized firmware, perhaps even motherboards and processors.

This kind of spying would generate no suspicious network activity and would be invisible to software.

Again, the assumption must be that Pakistani/Chinese intelligence has all the data that was stored on Congressional IT during the reign of the Awans over said IT.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2018-07-03 00:51|| 2018-07-03 00:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Nn worries. Trump campaign manager Manafort has been imprisoned in solitary confinement.

Posted by Thrasing Lover of the Geats6515 2018-07-03 01:34|| 2018-07-03 01:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Nothing on this internet ever "vanished"
Just a hint.

Also, nothing in Heaven has either.

It's like a giant scroll across the sky.

Posted by newc 2018-07-03 01:55|| 2018-07-03 01:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Again, the assumption must be that Pakistani/Chinese intelligence has all the data that was stored on Congressional IT during the reign of the Awans over said IT.

Any intelligence 'damage assessment' would make this assumption and take the appropriate steps to mitigate the damage.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-03 03:02|| 2018-07-03 03:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Any intelligence 'damage assessment' would make this assumption and take the appropriate steps to mitigate the damage.

No can do Besoeker - not while the peasants are revolting.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-07-03 03:38|| 2018-07-03 03:38|| Front Page Top

#6 appropriate steps to mitigate the damage.

I.e. replacing all Members of Congress, staffers, clerks, secretaries etc. since the data leak makes them all at least vulnerable to social engineering attacks and manipulation.

IOW mitigation is impossible.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2018-07-03 05:56|| 2018-07-03 05:56|| Front Page Top

#7 I suspect that the Awans did some spying using customized hardware that would store information and be swapped regularly.

Easy enough to 'mirror' a server drive, strictly for redundancy purposes of course.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-07-03 06:36|| 2018-07-03 06:36|| Front Page Top

#8 I have a feeling most "hacks" of data are just thefts of the backups, then copied then returned.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-07-03 07:27|| 2018-07-03 07:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Was it possible to access the DNC's email from this server?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-07-03 10:55|| 2018-07-03 10:55|| Front Page Top

#10 The server went missing and was replaced with a copy? That's convenient.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-07-03 11:00|| 2018-07-03 11:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Nothing on this internet ever "vanished"
Just a hint.

I take it you've never sent spam to Emperor Cartagia?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-07-03 16:52|| 2018-07-03 16:52|| Front Page Top

#12 And Awan's have a plea deal for probation. Wonderful.

Posted by Charles 2018-07-03 22:11|| 2018-07-03 22:11|| Front Page Top

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