Re:Why Clinton’s Private Email Server Was Such a Security Fail
by remarkEon on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @11:38PM
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I find it highly unlikely that the department of the federal government charged with corresponding with foreign nations and representing America abroad wouldn't have a satisfactory email system. That just seems dubious at best.
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Re:Why Clinton’s Private Email Server Was Such a Security Fail
by dmckeon on Thursday March 05, 2015 @04:27AM
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You may want to re-evaluate - this was widely reported last month:
>The State Department is still reportedly trying to block hacker access to its unclassified e-mail system more than three months after the intruders were first detected.
http://www.enterprise-security-today.com/story.xhtml?story_i...
Yes, "unclassified", but, really? Three months? Really??
Re:Why Clinton’s Private Email Server Was Such a Security Fail
by remarkEon on Thursday March 05, 2015 @10:56AM
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Yeah that's definitely in excusable. But what makes me even more curious is the care the author took to explain that it was only the unclassified system. So what about the classified network? SIPR? CENTRIXS? Are we to assume that HRC didn't send/receive any classified email? That just seems odd. So I'm starting to think that a) she did, in fact, have a government email to handle the classified material and b) chose to have her unclassified email off the network for other reasons that remain to be disclosed.
Edit: I suppose there are other options. She could have used a staffer's email to send messages on the classified networks.
Re:Why Clinton’s Private Email Server Was Such a Security Fail
by fnordfnordfnord on Thursday March 05, 2015 @12:00AM
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Does "satisfactory" include able to be uploaded to Wikileaks by an Army Private?
Re:Why Clinton’s Private Email Server Was Such a Security Fail
by remarkEon on Thursday March 05, 2015 @12:12AM
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Those are different issues entirely. Chelsea Manning essentially walked out of the SCIF with a bunch of disks - there wasn't any email hacking involved. Otherwise it's unclear what your point is.