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FBI Said to Recover Personal E-Mails From Hillary Clinton Server
The FBI has recovered personal and work-related e-mails from the private computer server used by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, according to a person familiar with the investigation. ... A review by Clinton and her aides determined that about half of the 60,000 e-mails she exchanged during her four-year tenure as secretary of state were of a personal nature, the presidential candidate has said. ...
In 2013, the Clintons turned the private server over to a Colorado-based technology company to manage. The firm, Platte River Networks, installed the device in a New Jersey data center and managed and maintained it.
Andy Boian, a spokesman for the Platte River, said the FBI last month asked the company to hand over the server. Platte River asked the Clintons what it should do, and within 24 hours a representative for the Clintons told the company to provide the device to agents, Boian said.
There has been some question as to whether Clinton deleted her messages or took the more thorough and technical step of "wiping" the server. Boian said Tuesday that Platte River had "no knowledge of it being wiped."
Wow. What are the odds she just deleted the emails rather than doing a real wipe? It's obvious that she wanted personal total control over her emails -- that is the whole point of personal server -- and if she failed to get competent advice on how to actually wipe a machine, it demonstrates her own lack of competence in selecting people who are actual experts to help her do the things she wants. Doing a multi-pass overwrite with random data isn't exactly esoteric knowledge -- that's pretty basic stuff. There is of course the brute force method as well. Surely she remembers the Air Force personnel smashing computer equipment when they had to land in China after a midair collision. Or the destruction of The Guardian's Snowden hard drives.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 25 2015, @01:39AM
(Everyone is assuming that all the contents of the server are known to foreign intelligence services, because she was using a Microsoft server. Even the Microsoft servers run by the experts in the US government have been 0wned from time to time, and there is no reason to think that Hillary and her IT staff did better than the IT experts in the US government.)
Even if the server was running Linux or OpenBSD, I would assume the server was compromised. The experts she hired would not have been on the same level as those in the government and probably didn't watch it 24/7 and read all the logs, etc. Plus, there is a good chance, although I've not seen a definitive answer either way, that it was on a VPS, which opens a whole different can of worms.
(Score: 2) by fnj on Friday September 25 2015, @05:46AM
BWAHAHAHA! You say that as if it puts her at a disadvantage.