Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia?

[blogslut]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/10/was_a_server_registered_to_the_trump_organization_communicating_with_russia.html

In late July, one of these scientists—who asked to be referred to as Tea Leaves, a pseudonym that would protect his relationship with the networks and banks that employ him to sift their data—found what looked like malware emanating from Russia. The destination domain had Trump in its name, which of course attracted Tea Leaves’ attention. But his discovery of the data was pure happenstance—a surprising needle in a large haystack of DNS lookups on his screen. “I have an outlier here that connects to Russia in a strange way,” he wrote in his notes. He couldn’t quite figure it out at first. But what he saw was a bank in Moscow that kept irregularly pinging a server registered to the Trump Organization on Fifth Avenue.

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The researchers quickly dismissed their initial fear that the logs represented a malware attack. The communication wasn’t the work of bots. The irregular pattern of server lookups actually resembled the pattern of human conversation—conversations that began during office hours in New York and continued during office hours in Moscow. It dawned on the researchers that this wasn’t an attack, but a sustained relationship between a server registered to the Trump organization and two servers registered to an entity called Alfa Bank.

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...Eighty-seven percent of the DNS lookups involved the two Alfa Bank servers. “It’s pretty clear that it’s not an open mail server,” Jean Camp told me. “These organizations are communicating in a way designed to block other people out.”

[Jerry442]

1. If Trump had a brain...

...he'd be constantly badmouthing Putin and Russia to allay suspicion.

If.

[FrodosPet]

6. Maybe is is worried about a polonium-210 enema?

Not that Putin and pals would ever do anything like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko

[spanone]

2. K&R...

[dalton99]

3. “The parties were communicating in a secretive fashion.. akin to what criminal syndicates do"

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Interesting is it not?

Hang up high.

[napkinz]

5. I'm now seeing about a dozen threads on Trump's ties to Russia

Is this the November Surprise? Is this the coming bombshell we've been hearing about?

Will the MSM give this the kind of frenzied coverage they have given Hillary's emails the past three days?

[Takket]

7. answers

Yes

Yes

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll NO

[napkinz]

8. K&R!

[edhopper]

9. But, but, but....

EMAILS!!!!!!

[ffr]

10. Flush the Donald.

vote and volunteer with HRC or democratic causes.

[napkinz]

11. :)

[Coyotl]

12. Donald Trump, delete your server. Oh wait, did that once already.

The irony, Trump deleted the domain name. Any bets on whether or not the emails are deleted?

Talk about revenge of the nerds after all the Hillary email talk from Trump.

[Mc Mike]

13. This is the earliest o.p. I see on the subject.

Anthony Weiner, Andy Breitbart, Alfa Bank. 2 separate hacks on Weiner show that alt-right US nazis and Putin Intel Mafiya hackers are separate entities, but united in their aims.

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I'd like to suggest that military intel high tech assets Putin moved into Ukraine are some important component of Putin's cyber attacks. I'm sure Alfa Bank is a set in stone entity, with a lot of computer banks, memory capacity, cooling systems, communication lines, etc. But that means our intel know where it is, what lines of communication it uses, etc. The same might not be said for mobile military intel units who set up some computer hardware and communication infrastructure, maybe for boosting signals, communication bankshots, bouncing things off of satellites, some mobile unit with large memory capacity needed to overwhelm secure firewalls. Some mobile offensive cyber military intel unit.

We have Manfort's Ukranian connections, dRumpf's Ukranian policy changes at the RNC. This Alfa has Ukranian Mikhail Fridman. Ukranian mob hackers are involved in phishing against Clinton, Podesta, Weiner, DNC. The dRumpf end of the relationship was doing other business from '09 - '10, and was quiet until late June, when it started getting busy with Alfa. Russian intel hacker cozy bear was implicated in the hacks into U.S. politics. And the Russians moved a military force into Ukraine, where they had Putin oligarch buddies and friendly Ukranian mafiya assets.