She could have hired a team of machine learning grad students to build her a personalized spam filter.
but she went with the cheapest option.
this is going to keep me upset for a while.
Seriously, how could anyone really believe she specc'd this out herself? Her staff probably threw it together as a MVP with the full intention of revisiting the implementation "really soon".
And then they lost interest.
Best quote: “I think that in an age where so much information is flying through cyberspace, we all have to be aware of the fact that some information which is sensitive, which does affect the security of individuals and relationships, deserves to be protected and we will continue to take necessary steps to do so,” Clinton said
She knew what she was doing. This is outrageous.
Or instead of reinventing the wheel, installed an existing spam detection product like SpamAssassin on the email server.
"It gets better. Do a dig mx clintonemail.com. You’ll see that the machine’s incoming email was filtered by mxlogic.net, a spam filtering service that works by received all your emails, filtering out the spam, and forwarding you the rest.
This is because the hosting provider, Platte River Network, sold a package along with the hosting. The package included spam filtering and full-disk off-site backup (since then seized by the FBI).
So every email received by Clinton was going through many unsecured places, including a spam filtering queue, a backup appliance and an off-site backup server. Which has already been documented."
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/05/did-the-clinton-email-ser...