salttee wrote:Jouhou wrote:So, if you remember the Clinton email thing............. there was something to glean from that: she really never understood the importance of cyber security and was incredibly sloppy and complacent and even blew off warnings.
IMHO that's a lot of horse pucky.
The only thing she didn't understand is that the Republican scandal making machine would subpoena enough random material to stumble on to the fact that she had done that - and then be able to make a scandal out of it.
She was ahead of the game technologically - she didn't want to leave herself open to disloyal State department employees who would be able to break in and read her private conversations and turn them against her. She understood cyber security better than you!
Remember,
she was the Secretary of State she was the one who knew better than anyone else what
had to be kept under wraps as far as foreigners are concerned. I am willing to bet that she used the same defensive security that this old dinosaur does vs Facebook - she didn't put anything online that had to be kept secure. There are no allegations that anything of hers was ever leaked until the Republicans started issuing subpoenas.
The whole E-mail thing is just so much bullshit and the gen xers bought into it hook line and sinker.
BTW
Did you know that the two previous Secs of State did the same thing??
You picked a poor example of gen x prowess with that one.
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BTW
Did you know that the two previous Secs of State did the same thing??
Well no... NO ONE before Clinton ever had their own off site private server to do the Govt's business on... That is **not** the same thing as having a private email account. And to add to that, the rules and regs in place when the the two former Secs of State took office were not as clear as they were when Mrs. Clinton took office.
She was ahead of the game technologically - she didn't want to leave herself open to disloyal State department employees who would be able to break in and read her private conversations and turn them against her. She understood cyber security better than you!
Yeah... just a side issue that by having her own server, that Mrs. Clinton conveniently side-stepped any FOIA requests. She understands getting around the FOIA law better than most. Yes, she is ahead of "the game" right there alright!
Remember, she was the Secretary of State she was the one who knew better than anyone else what had to be kept under wraps as far as foreigners are concerned. I am willing to bet that she used the same defensive security that this old dinosaur does vs Facebook - she didn't put anything online that had to be kept secure. There are no allegations that anything of hers was ever leaked until the Republicans started issuing subpoenas.
First of all, when Clinton took office, her private server was NOT encrypted. It was encrypted later. So we'll never know what could have been seen until it was encrypted later.
As to things that need to be secure, it goes without saying that ANY communication you receive from a foreign source, whether the communication itself is technically Classified, or not, has to be secured. That's just common knowledge in the Dept. of State. and Mrs. Clinton wasn't savvy enough to grasp that.
My statements were made after reviewing the Wiki article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_C ... ontroversy
