2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: So, Hillary had a server at her house [View all]Bob41213
(491 posts)When you own the server, you control a lot more.
If you use gmail, guess what happens if the FBI comes along and asks for copies? Gmail says here's every one of them along with all the relevant logs associated with each one... They back up ad nauseam... There's no calling up Google and asking them if they can cut your backups to 30 days. EVERYTHING is out there.
Listen, if done right, a private server would have shielded all her communications from anyone. She could have put all her aids on it and when they emailed each other, there would be no paper trail except on her server (which she controlled). She could have encrypted her disk so the FBI couldn't read it. She should have controlled all the backups, but the staff wasn't competent to do that. She should have used a better OS.