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Re: Maskirovka! Russian Hackers Breach Pentagon Computers; Email System Down for a Fortnight

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Aug 8 19:52:03 2015, in response to Re: Maskirovka! Russian Hackers Breach Pentagon Computers; Email System Down for a Fortnight, posted by 3-9 on Sat Aug 8 19:38:37 2015.

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Well ... we still don't know if Hillary was running Exchange. Outlook clients can access any IMAP, SMTP or POP server and usually servers are set up as a plain old mail server using qmail or similar post office servers.

Virtual machines can get hacked like a "real iron" machine, but there's several advantages to running a VM. First off, if anything happens, you can just kill it and restart it from its image and whatever happened in the VM dies along with the process and is respawned clear of whatever happened there.

Secondly, real VM's are pretty ironclad and if you infect anything, you're infecting the temporary image that's running. Restart it and that goes away too. That was the idea behind KNOS, although we took that several steps further.

It's not at all the same deal, especially if the server's actual operating system isn't Windows at all. Let me give you an example. On this Toshiba laptop which runs KNOS, I can run a VM of Windows 7, OS X Leopard, OS X Yosemite and they're actually all running on BSD as the primary operating system. All these other OS' are "guests" that can be dumped at any time and just restarted clean every time I feel like running something else. Works the same way on big iron.

Back to Hillary, FBI and Treasury have some really good computer scientists working for them. If there are flaws, they WILL find them. But we'll have to wait until they do.

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