2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Debbie Wasserman-Schultz did not go to law enforcement, she went to the press [View all]Jarqui
(10,123 posts)Who here thinks Bernie would want to go before a judge and plead "we need access to our data so we can steal more of Clinton's data!!" That's what he'd effectively be asking in part if his campaign had really stolen Clinton's data. He'd have a real problem and the Clinton campaign could put the boots to his campaign in a court of law in front of the media - burying him as a data thief.
But when they had the opportunity to do just that, they backed down in a real hurry. It's ok to lob BS at Bernie in the media who are too lame to hold you to account but when you know that BS wouldn't fly under the scrutiny of a court, you'd better run away. Which is exactly what the DNC and Clinton did here. Not only were the DNC in gross beach of the DNC contract with Sanders - the Clinton claims of data theft were going to get clobbered and they bloody well knew it. That's just more evidence that there was no real theft of data. A thief is not going to go out of their way to stand before a judge while the media looks on - particularly when he's running for president.
I'll tell you something else that smells. It would appear that this voter data application is controlling data security at the application level - not under the hood at a file/network level because an application bug seems to be what opened the security door. What that suggests to me is that under the hood - below the application, the data is available to anyone that knows their way around a computer system at that level - maybe with some basic encryption to crack in the worst case. So DWS probably has a lot more explaining to do if someone really wants to go there.
Since Clinton folks are the ones who founded this vendor, they probably have the ability to get routine updates of Sanders data if they so choose.
If the Sanders folks don't want the Clinton folks to have their data, they should probably migrate their data to a server elsewhere and get away from these folks.