In following up on a recent Voater post about James Comey’s ties to the Clinton foundation, I researched the law firm, DLP Piper, for which his brother, Peter Comey, works.
“DLA Piper is the firm that performed the independent audit of the Clinton Foundation in November during Clinton-World’s first big push to put the email scandal behind them. DLA Piper’s employees taken as a whole represent a major Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign donation bloc and Clinton Foundation donation base. DLA Piper ranks #5 on Hillary Clinton’s all-time career Top Contributors list, just ahead of Goldman Sachs.”
http://yournewswire.com/james-comeys-ties-to-clinton-foundation-is-a-conflict-of-interest/
Searching the DLA Piper website, I found this page listing their associates with the following type of information, including a link for a vcard, next to the pic. For example:
Louise Horn Aagesen
Associate
Copenhagen T: +45 33 34 04 92
[email protected]
VCard
https://www.dlapiper.com/en/us/people/
I could not open the link to her vcard , because I don't have the software, but I was curious as to what it was.
So what is a vcard?
From Wikipedia “A vCard is a file format standard for electronic business cards. vCards are often attached to e-mail messages, but can be exchanged in other ways, such as on the World Wide Web or instant messaging. They can contain name and address information, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, URLs, logos, photographs, and audio clips.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard
Searching further, I found this website which lets you create a vcard for yourself. There is a video which explains all the information you can include in a vcard and how it can be used for correspondence with your business partners and clients.
http://www.vcardglobal.com/index.html
I can see vcards used by the pedo networks to communicate most anything they would need to in a very private way.
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Judgejewdy ago
Vcards aren't private and are pretty common. Unless they have some kind of special "version" that contains secret data, don't think there's anything here. But I'm not an IT guy so maybe someone who is can chime in.
ArtificalDuality ago
I looked at the vCard specification protocol:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6350
Yes, the format allows any kind of data. There are pre-defined fields. But it also allows an XML field which allows for arbitrary data to be tagged on. Through Base64 encoding any type of binary encrypted data can be tagged along with the vCard.
So yes, the protocol allows for communication of encrypted data. The XML field is not shown in most apps and would require a specialized app that will offer access to the XML fields. Simple address book apps will likely not do anything with the XML field.
P.S. I can make an app that will read the XML sections from exported vCards and save them to actual XML files for further processing. Cryptographers can then have at it if there's any encoded data found in them.