FBI probing connection between Trump's server and server of a russian bank.

[DetlefK]

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/fbi-probing-server-connection-between-trump-organization-and-russian-bank-first-reported-in-october/

The FBI and a group of computer scientists are examining whether a computer server connection exists or existed between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank, a charge originally levied—and widely dismissed—back in October 2016.

CNN reports that the FBI is continuing to look into a potential connection, as part of its ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, with one U.S. official telling the outlet the server relationship is “odd,” though they declined to say whether investigators consider it significant.

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As CNN notes, Alfa—a Russian Bank—“looked up the address to a Trump corporate server (registered to the Trump Organization) 2,820 times—more lookups than the Trump server received from any other source.”

In a statement after the October Slate report, Alfa bank maintained that any “supposed connection between Alfa and Trump is false,” adding the “working hypothesis is that the activity … was caused by a spam attack targeting Alfa Bank by a marketing server.” The statement further suggested the activity may “have been initiated by someone for the purpose of discrediting” Trump and Alfa Bank.


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So there you have it. Alfa's server repeatedly contacted Trump's server because some third party sent spam to the Alfa-server in an attempt to discredit Trump.

I'm not sure, but... why would Alfa's server contact the sender of spam unless they are replying to spam? And are we really supposed to believe that Alfa responded to spam-emails 2820 times???

[applegrove]

1. Some Internet expert on CNN pointed out that if it was spam from Trump's computer

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it should have gone out to multiple websites, not just Alpha Bank. And then all those places should have handshaked Trump's computer to test out what it was in the same way Alpha Bank did. But nobody else did. So it means the spam Trump sent out only went to one bank. That is not spam.