OK, be patient why I delve into my inner geek.

Everyone is proposing those toxic DNC emails that roiled the Democrat National Convention this weekend were hacked by Russia. Which I actually do not doubt.

But please understand, to hack into a system someone needs to be sloppy and “invite” the hackers in! So how is it that HRC emails and DNC emails were both exposed to the voters during this election year?

Well, … let’s begin with Hillary’s “personal” server and known incidents:

Clinton’s server was configured to allow users to connect openly from the Internet and control it remotely using Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Services.^[64]It is known that hackers in Russia were aware of Clinton’s non-public email address as early as 2011.^[71] It is also known that Secretary Clinton and her staff were aware of hacking attempts in 2011, and were worried about them.^[72]

In 2012, according to server records, a hacker in Serbia scanned Clinton’s Chappaqua server at least twice, in August and in December 2012. It was unclear whether the hacker knew the server belonged to Clinton, although it did identify itself as providing email services for clintonemail.com.^[64] During 2014, Clinton’s server was the target of repeated intrusions originating in Germany, China, and South Korea. Threat monitoring software on the server blocked at least five such attempts. The software was installed in October 2013, and for three months prior to that, no such software had been installed.

Now we know for a fact the “personal” side of Clinton’s electronic communication was to pave the way for her second run at the presidential election.  In fact, the server originated in 2008 to support her first run. Clinton would not want “Personal Political” emails to become public – for many reasons! (especially to hide any nexus between Bill’s speaking fees and State Department Policy decisions).

Everyone knows Politicians set up one account for “official business” and one for political business – a separation required by federal law. So if HRC was in communication with politicians and the DNC, it was through her personal server!

Then, there is the straight up admission by the FBI Director that Clinton’s email server was hacked because people in communication with her were hacked as well:

We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial e-mail accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account. We also assess that Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail domain was both known by a large number of people and readily apparent. She also used her personal e-mail extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related e-mails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries. Given that combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail account.

Rooster coming home to roost! I would wager the reason the DNC email server was compromised was due to the lack of security on Clinton’s “personal” (read political) email server. HRC left the IT Security door open and that exposed everyone she was in contact with – government, DNC and friends!

Oh the irony – It Berns!!!

Tags: 2016 Election, DNC emails. Democrat Convention, Email Server, FBI, HRC