Clinton server
Most articles just take the word of the original AP article that the clintonemail.com e-mail server was physically located at the Clinton Chappaqua home, even though AP has never provided any specific supporting evidence for that, and no other news organization appears to have confirmed that independently.
Furthermore, as far as I can tell, Clinton associates have never confirmed or denied the actual existence of a dedicated e-mail server hosting clintonemail.com at the Clinton home. It has been the media that has simply assumed the AP story to be accurate and has moved on from there.
We now have to consider the following possibilities for the physical location of the clintonemail.com e-mail server:
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It was, in fact, located in the Clinton home in Chappaqua, though no evidence has been provide that it was.
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It was located in a private office somewhere near Chappaqua, although again there is no evidence to that extent.
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It was hosted by an external hosting firm — based on network records, first at ThePlanet.com and then at Confluence Networks.
In both cases, there are strong indications that the actual hardware would be in Texas.
There are strong security issues for all the solutions, as this likewise excellent Gawker article points out:
https://gawker.com/how-unsafe-was-hillary-clintons-secret-staff-email-syst-1689393042
But let me add a few more.
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If the e-mail server was really located in the Clinton Chappaqua home, was it left as a stand-alone server, or did anyone ever use it as a regular PC: reading e-mails, browsing the web, etc.? If the latter, then you have the very real possibility of malware being installed on the e-mail server itself.
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If the e-mail server was hosted in a private office somewhere, then it would need round the clock physical security. Who would provide that? The Secret Service? The State Department? Private contractors?
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If the e-mail server was hosted by an external hosting firm, then you have lost physical control of the server itself and have to depend upon the server farm facilities and operators to provide security.
As has been pointed out by myself and others, the existence of clintonemail.com was divulged no later than March 2013, when the Guccifer documents were leaked — but since Clinton used this e-mail address exclusively at State, there is a very good chance that foreign intelligence agencies became aware of it very quickly. Given what news sources and private technical resources have found just in a few days, you would have to assume that foreign governments would find all this and more in very short order.
And if the server was physically hosted in an industrial park somewhere in Texas (which matches another address associated with Confluence Networks), I’m willing to bet they could find their way in, particularly given that they had a few years to do so.
So, once again, we’re back to a critical question: where was the Clinton e-mail server physically located?
This is a question whose answer is, quite literally, a matter of national security.