DeVos company implicated in new report on fishy communications between Trump Organization and Russian bank

[phands]

Please, Mueller, nail these scum....

[FONT=&quot]Cybersecurity experts found evidence of suspicious communications between a Trump Organization computer and a Russian bank in the summer of 2016 — and they also noticed a link to Betsy DeVos and her family.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]The researchers set out to find whether Russian hackers had also targeted Republicans after news broke about the Democratic National Committee hacks, and their investigation surprised them, reported The New Yorker.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]The group found Alfa Bank computers were repeatedly looking up the address of a Trump server located in Lititz, Pennsylvania, nearly every day in the summer of 2016 — and computer scientists who examined the contacts believe they were intentional attempts at human communication.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]“The timing of the communication was not random, and it wasn’t regular-periodic,” said one researcher, identified only as Paul. “It was a better match for human activity.”[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Alfa Bank looked up the Trump Organization’s domain more than two thousand times more than 2,000 times between May and September 2016.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Only one other entity — Spectrum Health — reached out to the Trump Organization’s domain with any frequency during that same period.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]The Grand Rapids, Michigan-based company is closely linked to the DeVos family — Richard DeVos, Jr., husband of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, is chairman of the board and named one of its hospitals after his mother.[/FONT]

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/de...mmunications-trump-organization-russian-bank/

 

[mrzyphl]

So there is irrefutable evidence of human activity from their server but nothing about what was being communicated? What was the purpose of repeatedly looking up the address? Couldn't they hack their server and find out?

 

[barbos]

It's mind boggling how this bullshit keeps coming up again and again.

 

[phands]

So there is irrefutable evidence of human activity from their server but nothing about what was being communicated? What was the purpose of repeatedly looking up the address? Couldn't they hack their server and find out?

Depends on what the actual activity was. There didn't have to be a human involved at all. The most likely would be a DNS lookup - and those don't actually have to contact the actual server at all.

 

[barbos]

So there is irrefutable evidence of human activity from their server but nothing about what was being communicated? What was the purpose of repeatedly looking up the address? Couldn't they hack their server and find out?

Depends on what the actual activity was. There didn't have to be a human involved at all. The most likely would be a DNS lookup - and those don't actually have to contact the actual server at all.

You create so many threads that you have no time to read your sources let alone research them. No, not most likely DNS lookup, it is definitely DNS lookup because they explicitly say so and if you had time to research it more you would have learned that the whole thing is utter bullshit. I myself explained it on this very forum countless number of times.

 

[Koyaanisqatsi]

It's mind boggling how this bullshit keeps coming up again and again.

So it’s true. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be posting. Thanks.

 

[barbos]

It's mind boggling how this bullshit keeps coming up again and again.

So it’s true. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be posting. Thanks.

Yes, it's bullshit

 

[Koyaanisqatsi]

It's mind boggling how this bullshit keeps coming up again and again.

So it’s true. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be posting. Thanks.

Yes, it's bullshit

I’m not convinced. Do you have another Robert Downey, Jr. meme you can post to convince us?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

It's mind boggling how this bullshit keeps coming up again and again.

So it’s true. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be posting. Thanks.

The bone has little meat on it, but it is still a peculiar bone. Alfa Bank, DeVos, and Trump. It isn't like DeVos was exactly the most active person within DC politics, so her inclusion in the Cabinet can be considered an oddity.

But lets keep things level, other than the closest people in the Trump Campaign, and a bunch of coffee fetchers, no one in the Trump Campaign tried to communicate secretly with Russians.

 

[barbos]

Do you all have Alzheimer? We have discussed this bullshit many times and you keep forgetting it.

 

[Elixir]

It's mind boggling how this bullshit keeps coming up again and again.

So it’s true. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be posting. Thanks.

Methinks teh [person] doth protest too much.