Snowden/Assange = govt servers not safe

[dvduval]

Just an idea here... With Wikileaks and Snowden, it is pretty obvious that hackers have been getting into United States government servers. Why can't Hillary just say that she was overly concerned that there was not any sense of security on the government's servers? Then as president she would like to create I plan to modernize the government computer network.

I have thought about this many times. Whether it be the opposing party or a foreign government, I can understand why she might want to use her own server. If anything it might have been more in the interest of National Security not to judging by past events.

Can you get experts you start saying that even now the government servers are not secure. Then if someone gives her more room to say that she just did not feel there was a good way to maintain security in looking at what happened in the recent past. Maybe she made a mistake to have her own personal server, but at the same time it was in the interest of protecting our Vital interests.

Get someone like Comey to say that he feels it could have been very dangerous for her email to be on government servers too. Sometimes security through anonymity can be superior. Fewer people may know about her private email address and therefore it would be less of a Target.

[JoePhilly]

1. Hillary is part of the party that wants the government to work.

The GOP works to break the government any chance they get.

If ANY of her personal email was on a government server, the GOP would have been looking to leak it.

And so ... she sets up her own server, one that does not get hacked thanks to GOP cost cutting ... and the GOP is so frustrated, they still chase her around for a few years over emails that were never leaked.

Hillary can't call the government incompetent ... the GOP would love that.

[dvduval]

2. Yes but...

If I recall, the GOP has continued to Stonewall about any sort of spending increases. As a result it has been nearly impossible to upgrade the US government Network to secure it from Attack. Instead the GOP is fighting over where to build more planes and bombs while missing the intelligence war that is so evident right now.

[JoePhilly]

3. that's too hard to explain to the trump block ...

.... they'd simply attack the evil government ... and scream Trump's name.

Rational people have already moved on.

[DawgHouse]

4. It sounds as if you are suggesting that Hillary

should claim (after the fact) that she felt it was in the interest of security that she had a personal server. Why would she say something that isn't true. She's already said she used the server because she thought it was more convenient. Also bringing in Comey to prop her her new story would be conspiratorial. Why would he do that anyway?

[randome]

5. I don't understand all the attention on this. NO server is immune from hacking. Not one.

It's the nature of the beast.
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[frazzled]

7. Exactly: as long as their are criminals, they will find ways to break in

You can keep upgrading the security, but the criminals will always find a new way to break in.

It's robbery, and determined robbers will find a way to hold up banks with security guards and locked vaults; hold up armored Brinks trucks; bypass your alarm system. We can't live in fear of them.

The only way we've found to keep airplanes (mostly) secure (aside from crazed pilots) is that we can control individuals who get on them. We can't even find the criminal hackers who are out there, near and far.

I sort of wish Congress would pass a law that forbade media from reporting on these stolen goods. I suppose it would be completely flouting the First Amendment. But it's not like it's lawfully obtained information from sources: it's contraband. It's like breaking into Watergate or a government agency in the deep of night.

[speaktruthtopower]

6. The worst thing I've heard

is that she was accessing her network overseas using Blackberry, in countries that are sophisticated about IT.

That's a good way not to be anonymous.

[Hekate]

8. They should probaby hack&reveal everything in the RNC and Trump servers...

...just to prove how insecure those servers are and how non-partisan Snowden and Assange are in helping us understand this problem.