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In reply to the discussion: Obama: Clinton’s Email Server Did Not Jeopardize National Security [View all]RiverNoord
(1,150 posts)That the Secretary of State had a personal email server put in place to handle all of her official email communications is really difficult to comprehend to those of use who manage our companies' network security, web servers, email, etc.
It's bizarre, and has been universally panned by every security expert who has publicly discussed the issue. And, to me, it's not 'political,' it's both a question of responsibility and, on a professional level, a really strange example of 'how not to manage potentially sensitive email.'
That being said, Department of State IT and security personnel really should have prevented it. The issue of 'what if your boss does (x) and, after being informed of the risks, that it violates company policy, etc., keeps on doing it, what do you do?' is a regular issue in IT, and there are some generally accepted practices for managing such a situation, including, if all else fails, resigning. I consider the DoS IT/security personnel more to blame than Clinton, as they should have have strenuously objected and escalated the issue, but they don't seem to have done much at all.