What Might Have Motivated Hillary Clinton To Use Personal Email

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What Might Have Motivated Hillary Clinton To Use Personal Email

BY CLAY JOHNSON -- GUEST CONTRIBUTOR at Think Progress

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/03/04/3629650/hillary-clintons-private-email-tells-us-antiquated-government-technology/

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I love this story from the New York Times about Hillary Clinton using her personal email account for official Secretary of State business because it points to a serious fracture in transparency’s goals, its implementations and IT policy in Government. Take this choice quote from Thomas Blanton, the Director of the National Security Archive:

“Personal emails are not secure,” he said. “Senior officials should not be using them.”

Are you serious? Let’s be clear, that personal email was probably far more secure than her state.gov email account. The State Department’s email system has been compromised for months. It’s highly likely that it’s been compromised since forever: remember, during her tenure, Wikileaks released the State Department’s classified communications.

A better question is: why would she use the State Department’s email system to conduct official business? In fact, if it’s demonstrably insecure, does she not have a responsibility not to use it? It’s probably the case that if Hillary Clinton was focusing solely on security, using her personal email with 2 Factor Authentication was probably way more secure than using the honeypot mess of IT that is the State Department’s email servers.



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[Warpy]

1. I pointed out yesterday the generic email account was likely more secure

simply because it was behind an alias and one of many hundreds of millions sent out that day, one needle in a huge haystack. No one would have paid any attention to it.

Not so the official, "secure" email account. The NSA pays particular attention to those and they have also been prone to hacking.

No email is ever really private and things live forever in cyberspace. If you want your mail to be private, you need to spend the money on a stamp--or schedule a diplomatic courier with a locked bag.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

4. An alias?

Clintonemail.com?

My gods, who could have ever thought that it might be a server for emails for the Clintons with such a super secret domain name like that?

[Warpy]

12. It's a common WASP name

however, it could have been more secure.

[Abq_Sarah]

2. The only thing that really matters

Is that public officials don't get to route their official emails through their own private servers. I'm sure we can all agree that it's a practice that completely destroys any efforts at transparency. They weren't her emails, they belong to us.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. A better question?

Why didn't she make it a top priority to FIX the State Department's email system during her tenure? Or any kind of priority at all? If it was such a wreck, surely that should have been one of the main things to focus on while she was there. Were no one else's emails at State important? Only hers needed to be handled through private servers, while it was fine for every other person's to go through the system that was so 'compromised'? If Hillary Clinton was so 'focused' on security, why wasn't she 'focused' on it for everything State did, as opposed to simply her own emails?

Isn't it the job of the person at the top to try to make sure everything below them is functioning efficiently? Or is it to 'fix' problems just for themselves, and ignore the same problems happening for everyone working under them?

[BooScout]

5. aaaah......

Sort of like .....why hasn't the Obama administration fixed all that's wrong with Gitmo?

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

7. So you're saying State has absolutely 0 funding to spend on IT?

No discretion at all to hire on IT guys, no ability to direct their current staff to work on fixing the problem?

I find that highly unlikely.

I think your analogy fails.

[Rex]

10. They have 200 million dollars plus at their disposal.

So does that mean that during the BFEE years, Cheney and his crew of pirates never had to worry about their emails? I can't believe the State department has no way of getting her top rate security. Unless the people are you are trying to keep out are part of the government.

[awake]

9. Did congress stop the state dep. from fixing there email?

Like they stoped the shut down of Gitmo

[ND-Dem]

14. +100

[AngryAmish]

6. She kept her email server in her toilet so she could check it every morning

There is nothing wrong here.

[Oilwellian]

13. LOL...Release the Minion!

Could they be more transparent? Oh, wait...

[hunter]

11. Because email is shit?

That's what I think, and I've been suffering email since the 'seventies.