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2015-03-06 Government

Gawker: Hillary's shoddy private e-mail security is a potential national security disaster

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-03-06 10:38|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 Hillary's ~~shoddy private e-mail security is~~ a ~~potential~~ national security disaster

FIFY

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-03-06 11:24|| 2015-03-06 11:24|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-03-06 11:31|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-03-06 11:58|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-03-06 12:34|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-03-06 12:44|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-03-06 15:22|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-03-06 15:35|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-03-06 16:14|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-03-06 19:04|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-03-06 20:12|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-03-06 20:25|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-03-06 22:19|| Front Page Top

#13 More like piss and vinegar to me.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-03-06 22:45|| 2015-03-06 22:45|| Front Page Top

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