The Nerds Weigh In On the DNC 'Data Breach'
This stinks. "And social media is blowing the hell up, not unreasonably, because it’s a goddamn hatchet job combined with a kneecapping to yank access by the Bernie campaign to its OWN DATA because a guy from the Bernie campaign passively browsed through a firewall he didn’t himself disable, a firewall run by a company controlled by Clinton partisans which had been going down already for reasons unknown. His volunteer in charge of data caught the vendor with the firewall down, allowing the Clinton campaign access to all of the Sanders data. This whole thing stinks, it stinks because the co-owner of NGP VAN was Clinton's chief technology officer for her 2008 campaign. If there was proof that her campaign has had access to all of the DNC data during the entire campaign it wouldn't surprise me... It doesn't really mean anything for Clinton's former CTO to say that he pinky-swears that their campaign never accessed the other side. It also makes no sense that anyone running a sensitive system would keep that system online while the firewall is offline for maintenance. If the data is important enough to have a firewall there, then before you take the firewall down you need to make sure that the data isn't going to be accessed or compromised in the meantime."
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This is where the following comment belongs... Doesn't matter much, since I seem to be the only reader who comments!
I was mesmerized by, and spent way too much time, reading the comments to this article. The commenters were far more literate and knowledgeable than I ever would have expected. I finally had to tear myself away from the over 500 comments already posted, and get back to the business of... baking cookies. Much, much more productive.
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