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| Gawker: Hillary's shoddy private e-mail security is a potential national security disaster |
| 2015-03-06 |
| [Hot Air.com] We already knew it was bad. Not until you read this will you understand how bad. In fact, I debated with myself whether to even include the word "potential" in the headline. The reason it's there is because cybersecurity experts can't say for an absolute fact that foreign governments infiltrated her server. All they can say is that it's a virtual certainty given how high a priority she is for enemy hackers and how clumsy her defenses were. It's like a business owner knowing that his store is being cased and choosing to leave the vault unlocked anyway. You need to read it all to appreciate the extent of the failure. The threshold problem with using private e-mail is that your own cybersecurity is only as good as the company you're using. If hackers know a way into a commercial server -- and Hillary's e-mail apparently used three different servers -- then they have a way into your account potentially. That's not a major problem for average people but it's huge when the target is someone being watched by the most sophisticated cyber outfits in the world. Instead of conducting State Department business behind one very well fortified door, i.e. the federal government's, Hillary placed it behind three less fortified ones. The only reason to do that is if she was more worried about the American public knowing what she was doing than, say, China knowing. But even that doesn't fully explain the security lapse. If you're going to hide behind three less fortified doors, you should at least want to make sure those doors are as fortified as possible. Hillary didn't: |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 More like piss and vinegar to me. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-03-06 22:45 |
| #12 I don't see Hillary as a JD Girl. More as a Vinegar and Water old fashioned |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-03-06 22:19 |
| #11 Don't worry as SOS all she did was fly around the world. The emails are all to Huma to go to Costco and pick up another case of Jack Daniels. |
| Posted by: Albert Thravins4110 2015-03-06 20:25 |
| #10 Nothing to worry about. I'm sure Hillary used that imfamous ROT13 encryption I've heard so much about. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-03-06 20:12 |
| #9 The flip side of this is, now that the emails have theoretically been secured, nothing you find in them could be taken as evidence, because, after all, anybody could have hacked and spoofed the accounts. Plausible deniability. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2015-03-06 19:04 |
| #8 So, are these servers offline, or are they being hacked at this moment by every Tom, Dick, and Harry? |
| Posted by: KBK 2015-03-06 16:14 |
| #7 Instead of conducting State Department business behind one very well fortified door, i.e. the federal government's, Hillary placed it behind three less fortified ones. The only reason to do that is if she was more worried about the American public knowing what she was doing than, say, China knowing. Clinton: “What difference does it make?” |
| Posted by: Black Bart Brown1628 2015-03-06 15:35 |
| #6 Speaking as an IT guy and into Cyber-Security, there is no question that she's been hacked especially since whom ever set it up apparently used the default certs. Custom unique certs could have been purchased for a couple hundred $ that would have been much more secure. Since the equipment in in her basement as it were, I'd bet my salary that the original disks have several drill holes in them and now sleep with the fishes in some nearby lake. |
| Posted by: Warthog 2015-03-06 15:22 |
| #5 From a security manager's standpoint, one must assume everything she sent or received over an open system, has been compromised by a foreign intelligence service. I don't even know where you would begin a damage assessment effort. All of this is just beyond.... the beyond. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-03-06 12:44 |
| #4 The part of this article that is most disturbing to me: "You're almost certainly vulnerable to Chinese government style spearphishing attacks—which government departments have enough trouble stopping—but the task is near impossible for an IT naive self-hosted setup. Keep in mind that Clinton's emails was a prime target for some of the globe's most sophisticated state-sponsored cyberwarriors—the Chinese, the Israelis, the Iranians. The existence of Clinton's private account was revealed by the hacker Guccifer, an unemployed Romanian taxi driver who managed to gain access to former Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal's AOL account with relative ease." If a unemployed Romanian taxi driver can break into Hillary's account, imagine what China and Russia's best hackers can do. Al |
| Posted by: frozen al 2015-03-06 12:34 |
| #3 “As much as I’ve been investigated and all of that, you know, why would I – I don’t even want – why would I ever want to do email?” - HRC 2000 |
| Posted by: mossomo 2015-03-06 11:58 |
| #2 The only reason to do that is if she was more worried about the American public knowing what she was doing than, say, China knowing. So you can just imagine some Chinaman asking President Hildebeast how badly she wants to keep certain information that he happens to posses out of American newspapers. High powered, filthy rich, crooked people like Ms. Rodham think they can wave that magic wand of technology and get anything they want with it. They're like Mickey Mouse in the Sorcerer's Apprentice...just like the Champ with his healthcare.gov website that still doesn't work in spite of all the money he's thrown at it. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-03-06 11:31 |
| #1 Hillary's FIFY |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-03-06 11:24 |