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I also am not well versed enough to provide a great explanation, but my understanding of DNS tunneling is as follows: I'm alfa bank's server and I want to see if Trump's server is awake, so I reference its phone number and give it a call. Trump's server picks up and says "Hi, yes this is Trump's server, yes I'm awake, c7b2ab4635fb1285bb2802eb362dc0b5, goodbye" This is obviously a pretty simple (and probably awful) analogy, but I assume you understand how powerful this conversation potentially is if Spectrum is doing the same thing in the other direction. This graph, of which I cannot vouch at all for the source for accuracy or reliability shows a pretty interesting pattern of coincidences. Not sure if it's possible to see all of the Y axis or if that's just poor graph design or what. If it is in fact true that these 'phone calls' accounted for 99% of DNS lookups on Trump's server, well, that's interesting too. This idea is totally just speculation and none has been verified, but the technology is available. The argument that might make this look silly is that Trump's server was used to emit marketing emails, allegedly, and it makes sense that 1) an alfa bank server might want to know the origin of marketing emails and 2) traffic would be higher during certain phases of the campaign. It could be totally harmless.

Also to further comment on the idea "Trump must have known" Alfa is, of course, owned by the father-in-law of the Dutch lawyer who was recently sentenced. I'm sure little larry will tell us that this just indicates that Alfa Bank is trying to make Trump look bad and is therefore helping democrats, which must be ILLEGAL somehow, but a better explanation is ... database replication funneled through an iodine DNS tunnel. It seems plausible that Spectrum was sending medical records or other data sets to Alfa for the purpose of syncing profiles. Perhaps this was discussed much earlier in the thread, but the picture is becoming pretty clear as the pieces fall into place.

He denied participating in the latter when? I was only aware of silence on Trump's part on that particular matter, but when you put the pieces together, ie the CA CEO on camera admitting to using them, and it may not matter whether Trump understands the underlying technology, but it seems pretty obvious that he knew what was going on.

Hint: he does.

My point is not that he can't use emails -- I'm baffled he can even dress himself in the morning; perhaps he can't -- but rather the hypocrisy of firing up a fanbase about ILLEGAL EMAILS while at the same time participating in something much, much more sinister, potentially.

It's all very concerning (especially since Donnie Moscow reportedly doesn't even know how to use emails) Given that it seems very likely that his cohorts used self-destructing, encrypted emails (which supports Hope Hicks' testimony that she 'no longer has access to the emails'), I strongly suspect that is what formed his opinion of computer security. His lackeys showed him how to beat the system and he boasted about beating the system, as he is wont to do. What do State protocols say about that?

“Remember my opening remarks at Trump Tower when I opened? Everybody said, ‘Oh, he was so tough.' I used the word rape,” the president said. “And yesterday it came out where this journey coming up, women are raped at levels that nobody has ever seen before.” “In many places like California the same person votes many times. You’ve probably heard of that,” Trump said. “They always like to say, ‘Oh, that’s like a conspiracy theory.’ Not a conspiracy theory folks. Millions and millions of people. And it’s very hard because the state guards their records. They don’t want to see it.” Completely off his rocker, but I have no doubt his base is loving it all over again.

Yeah?

redspawn is approaching pizzagate levels of stupid now. it's only a matter of time before infowars, 4chan, and t_d get posted in this thread.

Barmar, I apparently can't chat with anyone on BBO. Bug or feature?

:blink: this page has somehow broken my script. i am baffled.

"Every woman in the Senate just demanded Mitch McConnell hold a vote on sexual harassment legislation" If we could try to come up with a headline that sounds important but means literally nothing, this has got to be it. I fully expect an equal headline in the near future "Turtle McConnell ignores every woman in the Senate" In case you needed an assist, the senate has 22 women; 5 are republican. Of those 5, only 2 break from party lines sometimes. Sorry ladies, nothing to see here

USA! USA!

? That article is several months old. The part you highlighted is Jan 17

John Bolton leads a super PAC that employed Cambridge Analytica and who were the top funders of that super PAC? You guessed it. John Bolton derailed a UN conference to enforce the 1972 Biological weapons convention because he didn't want to allow spot inspections of U.S. weapons sites. John Bolton is pushing for war with Iran John Bolton is pushing for war with North Korea John Bolton wants the US army to create a 'Sunni State' in Syria & Iraq John Bolton appeared in a video used by the Russian gun rights group 'The Right to Bear Arms' in 2013 to encourage the Russian government to loosen gun laws. Mad Dog Mattis might be the only person in the world who can prevent war right now.

Breathless, disingenuous right-wing hysteria from a blithering idiot. I am shocked, shocked.

Do we have any christians in this thread?

What a beautiful person. Everyone, remember to look up to the stars rather than down at your feet. Try to make sense about what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. RIP

So Felix Sater is actually the most interesting man in the world. Who knew?

Refresh your internet. WH saying this isn't happening. It was, as usual, Trump shitting the bed.

I'm admittedly ignorant of all law, but what exactly binds congress to do anything about this? genuinely curious in some sources.

I don't think that's entirely fair. We haven't had a day free of scandal in a long, long time.

The Nunberg episode was sponsored by Jack Daniels and lasted approximately 0.6 decimooches. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes I suppose.

Preet Bharara is a national treasure.