

Giving back A 2003 New Milford High School graduate has donated $50,000 to the Newtown High Technology Club. The founder of Datto Inc., Austin McChord, will also be the club's new advisor.



It wasn’t until August 2015, more than two years after Platte River had taken over administering the Clinton server and four months after Combetta deleted the emails off the server, that anyone realized that cloud-based backups existed. In an email dated August 6, Sam Hickler, Platte River’s VP of operations, wrote: “When we made the purchase, it was under the understanding that we didn’t want to back up to Datto’s data center.”



Datto investigated and discovered that the device Combetta had installed was automatically syncing with Datto’s cloud servers and storing the data there—even though Platte River hadn’t been billed for the service.



Treve Suazo, Platte River’s CEO, replied: “This is a problem. This data should not be stored in the Datto Cloud, but because the backup data exists, we cannot delete it . . . ”



A few days later, Datto’s general counsel, Michael Fass, sent a letter to Platte River attorneys, informing them that Datto planned to disconnect the cloud-based server. Fass said that Datto had been following news reports concerning various investigations into Clinton’s emails and had concerns. “It may be possible that information contained on the Datto device” is “subject to legal retention requirements,” he said. “We are concerned that if no immediate action is taken,” then “information may be improperly deleted.”



The following month Datto received its first written request from the FBI (there was no subpoena).



“We received permission from both Platte River and the Clinton organization to hand over to the FBI information relevant to its investigation including physical equipment from our cloud, which we did,” Datto CEO Austin McChord told me through his attorney.



Datto provided the physical cloud storage equipment as well as individual syslog files and additional logs to the FBI.



The question is: Did Datto maintain the integrity of these cloud-based backups of Clinton’s emails after Platte River asked it to discontinue secure cloud backups?



All McChord would say after consulting his attorney was: “The FBI Report provides that Platte River Networks used Datto to back up the Clinton IT infrastructure. It also states that Platte River Networks used our solution to back up servers that had Mrs. Clinton’s emails on them. The report also indicates that the FBI was able to recover emails that were not previously provided.”



Is that a yes?



“Datto has no direct knowledge to suggest those emails were recovered from the Datto servers.”



How about indirect knowledge?



Datto pointed me back to the FBI report, which stated that the bureau recovered “from additional data sources” 17,448 emails that were sent to and from Clinton’s hdr22@clintonemail.com and were not previously provided to the agency. Some might have come from Wikileaks’ hacked email from Podesta’s and Blumenthal’s Gmail accounts. The vast majority, however, might have come from Datto’s backups.



After handing over Datto’s servers and logs that held the Clintons’ emails, McChord says Datto hasn’t heard anything more from the FBI and has no indication that the Bureau had trouble decrypting those files.



But what was in them? Datto isn’t entirely sure. Nonetheless, it’s the missing emails that Clinton sent at the time of the Benghazi attacks that led to the investigation in the first place. The attack occurred during the final months of Clinton’s tenure at the State Department.

So researching some on another thread I came across a really odd coincidence that I can't help but think isn't really a coincidence and may tie Clinton to the Newtown School Shooting in some manner but not sure how.Somehow it has to do with Clintons deleted emails while SoS.....So the connection is a company called Datto.Now this is really cool of him...trying to give back to a community that had just been torn apart by a horrible shooting.Now fast forward to the Clinton email scandal and Benghazi.33K emails are deleted. Platte River is the server host, but the server also has a backup device...this device is made by none other than Datto. The company that donated to Newtown High School and owned by McChord. Well this is where it gets interesting....so the Datto box that was attached to the server was the box that Platte deleted the emails from.Unbeknownst to Platte and apparently accidentally done by Datto....they backed it up to their cloud datacenter. Now Datto claims they didn't know and there were never any charges for this service which there should have been.So....what if McChord and Datto were the original leaders of all emails from Clinton? They had access, they were on her server beginning in 2013 and the second the server migration took place this box took a snapshot and uploaded it to the cloud....a snapshot of everything on that server including all prior emails and configurations from during her SOS tenure, which was why the FBI wanted it.Now what if McChord found something on that back up that linked Hillary with Sandy Hook. What are the odds that Datto accidentally backed up Hillary's personal email server to the cloud?I believe this may be the original leaker of Clintons emails...leaked to wiki after having deliberately backed up the data. What if the leaks actually did contain something related to Sandy Hook.I know this is a really thin connection, but the name Datto coming up in relation to these two things, Newtown Shooting and Clintons Deleted emails, just seems really odd, especially considering the timing and how many of these emails were redacted or not released due to classification.Anywho...enjoy the mindfu@k with this one y'all!