Using Private Email, Hillary Clinton Thwarted Record Requests

Re:Using Private Email, Hillary Clinton Thwarted Record Requ... by chimeracoder on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @09:11AM (#9144257)

> They are probably talking about the DNS records. If you look up my domain, it will list my home address, but the server is not in my house.

You mean the WHOIS records?

If so, I'm not sure it's so easy to simply dismiss "traced back to an Internet service registered to her family's home in Chappaqua, New York" as referring to the WHOIS record. It sounds like they're looking at the IP address, in which case I guess it's technically possible that the actual mailserver isn't physically located at her home, but for the purposes of the article it'd be reasonable to say that she ran [part of] the service from her home.

I agree that it'd be preferable if they could explain what evidence they're actually basing this on, but it doesn't read to me like they're talking about the WHOIS.

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Re:Using Private Email, Hillary Clinton Thwarted Record Requ... by delecti on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @09:19AM (#9144299)

I disagree. I think that statement makes far more sense if it means the WHOIS records than it does if they mean the physical server.

The key words are "registered to", which means nobody was able to trace the actual traffic to the home. Not that that would necessarily be easy, but in absence of that I think it's far more likely that she's not administering running mail servers from her home.

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