2016 USA Presidential election thread I: The warm-up

[Zealot]

Her password was Me20!6 but the 1 was an exclamation point so it was super secure.

[Zealot]

No matter what else happens or what comes out, Republicans aren't allowed to have control of the White House when there's a deciding vote on the Supreme Court on the line. Maybe now that Trump is 100% the nominee McConnell will stop his hissy fit, but barring that I wouldn't care if the Democrats were running RFK's skeleton, I'd vote for those bones before I let Trump put a Justice on the bench.

[archibaldcrane]

The issue with computer security is it's impossible to be 100% secure. The simplest way to keep a secure server is to keep the server's OS and email software up to date to catch all the security patches. That is effective for most things. Secure passwords for all of it. All of that will keep a server pretty secure.

Hillary's server was not up to date. It was five years out of date. And I bet her password was really insecure as well.

Is it really a common practice in server security to upgrade to, for example, the next year's Microsoft Exchange Server software yearly? I assume they continually push new patches for older versions up to a point, no? Like how they continue security updates for Windows 7 even though it is 6.5 years old now?

This is a serious question, I don't know if upgrading to the new version yearly is an industry "best practice".

[Krandor]

In an ideal world everything would be continually up to date.

In this fantasy world most of these servers would also probably not be running anything Windows based since that brings inherent security flaws by the basis of being the most popular OS (thus more likely to be the target of exploits)

[Qeomash]

Is it really a common practice in server security to upgrade to, for example, the next year's Microsoft Exchange Server software yearly? I assume they continually push new patches for older versions up to a point, no? Like how they continue security updates for Windows 7 even though it is 6.5 years old now?

This is a serious question, I don't know if upgrading to the new version yearly is an industry "best practice".

To be fair, it's not common practice to upgrade immidiatley because it might break some clients if you're in a large company. Or the new version might have bugs. But in my experience, that means delaying at most a year or two. If the server was just Hillary and her closest friends, there should have been no excuse to not upgrade unless it would break her Blackberry or something.

[Dantrag]

Because I know little about this type of stuff, could, for example, a person in IT heavily leaning in the realm of security like yourself create a server for this purpose that was remotely secure?

In theory you could to a certain extent, but you'd basically have to have a datacenter in your house on a completely segregated network(ie: not attached to your home internet which most likely has a wifi attached to it so you can watch netflix etc). But physical security then becomes a huge risk as well.

[Dantrag]

In an ideal world everything would be continually up to date.

In this fantasy world most of these servers would also probably not be running anything Windows based since that brings inherent security flaws by the basis of being the most popular OS (thus more likely to be the target of exploits)

That's a misnomer. Linux and OSX are actually less secure due to the fact that they're not the most popular.

Is it really a common practice in server security to upgrade to, for example, the next year's Microsoft Exchange Server software yearly? I assume they continually push new patches for older versions up to a point, no? Like how they continue security updates for Windows 7 even though it is 6.5 years old now?

This is a serious question, I don't know if upgrading to the new version yearly is an industry "best practice".

Windows 7 is pretty damn poor for an OS from a security stand point. 10 is light years ahead at what you can do. If I put malware on a W7 box with pretty much any leading AV/AM I can almost always get a cleartext password, or at minimum a hash which allows me to get access to other things as well.

[notorious bum]

[Bregor]

Her password was Me20!6 but the 1 was an exclamation point so it was super secure.

Bill's password of Pu$$y_C!gar was much more secure

[chazzyphizzle]

a sitting president shoving a cigar into a mistress makes me so proud to be an american

[Salodin]

Did Bill really do that?

[Blubbartron]

Did Bill really do that?

Some men dip their cigars in brandy, and some men dip their cigars in Brandy.

[Minions]

Oh lord... the way I'm reading things... is it possible the GOP is going to push out a third party candidate? If so... Holy shit this election keeps getting crazier and crazier....

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/07/politi...ate/index.html

The group, which includes dozens of conservative leaders, vowed not to stay away from the polls come election day. "We will not vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton; but we will vote," the statement concluded.

[Quicklet]

It's not the worst idea in the world if they think Trump is going to get crushed anyway. Putting up a genuine conservative third-party candidate could protect some of their downballot seats that would otherwise be at risk from lower turnout.

Sarah Palin wants Paul Ryan to be primaried now.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/0...primary-222941

[arus2001]

I kinda hope they do and it absolutely backfires on them just as an example of their continued fuckery of the government. Certainly, the rest of the equation is getting the guys who think this is cool voted out so we don't get the last 8 years and such again, but that'd probably take a few cycles presuming the rest of the public comes to their senses.

[Byrthnoth]

Ftr Trump is already unabashedly abandoning some of his positions that would not do so well in the general.

[Minions]

Ftr Trump is already unabashedly abandoning some of his positions that would not do so well in the general.

At what point do you question how many policies get dropped as soon as he is elected. I don't think Trump intends to do anything that he says he will.

[Kanriel]

At what point do you question how many policies get dropped as soon as he is elected. I don't think Trump intends to do anything that he says he will.

Which is basically how people feel about Hillary as well. Which is why Hillary vs Trump is so goddamn depressing.

[Minions]

Which is basically how people feel about Hillary as well. Which is why Hillary vs Trump is so goddamn depressing.

Except you can look back at 25+ years of voting/history with Hilary. You can look back at.....???? on Trump?

[Zealot]

Several failed marriages, abuse of America's bankruptcy laws, famously thin skin, devastating business and personal financial losses - all the things we look for in a man who will lead foreign and economic policy.