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In reply to the discussion: More Clinton emails released, including some she deleted [View all]RiverNoord
(1,150 posts)and address it point blank, without evasions, I might just find it possible to vote for her.
Using a personal, privately owned computer kept on her personal property as her exclusive email server while Secretary of State was bizarre and reckless. I'm both a lawyer and IT professional who, in addition to many other duties, maintains my company's email server. It's no small affair if there are even marginal risks of exposure of email dialogue with lawyers or modest, but still valuable, trade secrets. Even with high-quality encryption and the use of digital signatures on sensitive email communications, there are risks.
But for the chief diplomat of the United States to do that required something more than a casual disregard for security - there was some personal benefit she perceived in having thousands of communications, with no greater protection for super-sensitive stuff compared to 'Merkel's suit was really sharp last night,' funneled through her own personal 'clintonemail.com' email server.
No IT people I know, including all of those who are liberal/progressive like me, can make sense of it, other than either 'branding' the State Department as a sort of personal fiefdom or the potential for bartering power later on. Both are ugly as hell.