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antigop

(12,778 posts)
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 11:17 AM Apr 2016

Oh, my! Investor's Business Daily editorial critical of HRC

http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/clinton-email-scandal-hillarys-documents-flowed-openly-across-web/

Corruption: It’s been known for some time that Hillary Clinton’s personal email contained top-secret government material. We’re also learning just how vulnerable her system was. She might as well have posted documents on an open blog.

While secretary of state, Clinton conducted State Department business through a personal email account handled by a private server that did not meet the government’s security standards. The homebrew system was probably the most susceptible to hackers during its first two months of existence when emails passed through it without encryption.
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The security risks posed by Clinton’s email arrangement went beyond just the first months of her tenure, though. Remember, it was never a secure government system and it was used by someone who has a “frighteningly outdated view of email security,” Computer World said last year, and who tried to argue that it was secure because the server was on property guarded by the Secret Service.

But all can’t be blamed on naivete, or an antiquated understanding of technology security. Clinton’s choice to use a nonsecure personal email account rather than a secure government account was made consciously and deliberately. She wanted to conduct government business outside of the sterilizing effects of sunlight. That she might endanger national security didn’t matter to her. The public would do well to remember this as she gets closer to the Democratic nomination.



Link to Computer World article mentioned:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2895892/hillary-clintons-email-system-was-insecure-for-two-months.html

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Yurovsky

(2,064 posts)
2. And she wiped it with a cloth...
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 11:20 AM
Apr 2016

she's shockingly ignorant WRT cyber security. And she was Sec of State???

NWCorona

(8,541 posts)
4. Hillary didn't even know how to turn up the volume on her phone.
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 11:28 AM
Apr 2016

She had to email Huma and ask for help.

Dem2

(8,168 posts)
3. Wingnut rag
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 11:25 AM
Apr 2016

I can't take anything said by a wingnut rag seriously, and I don't expect to be reading this garbage on a Democratic site.

Click on this and vomit: http://www.investors.com/politics/

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