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2016 Postmortem

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rogerashton

(3,920 posts)
Sun Sep 27, 2015, 07:33 AM Sep 2015

Snowden hasn't leaked anything from Hillary's email server. [View all]

Look, I'm a Bernie supporter, but there is an anti-Hillary meme among Republicans (and perhaps a few others) that needs to be debunked. It is the claim that her server would be less secure than a government email server. All the evidence is that government servers are NOT secure. Security is costly, and in a world of sequestration, there is no money to spend on that -- and anyway, one thing our federal bureaucracy does NOT seem to be very competent at is the use of computer technology. To the best of my knowledge, nothing from Hillary's server has been leaked by Snowden or any other source. The same cannot be said of government computers.

I'm no expert, but my guess is that material on Hillary's server was more secure, if only because the server was not known to exist -- until the Pubs made an issue of it and demanded that everything on it be made public. That did create risks to security, if the redaction of many of the documents is reasonable.

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What about the Romanian hacker "Guccifer"? CJCRANE Sep 2015 #1
OK, I have learned something. rogerashton Sep 2015 #6
AOL accounts have always been vulnerable. leftofcool Sep 2015 #11
That's correct, it wasn't her server that was hacked, it was on the other end. It wouldn't have DanTex Sep 2015 #13
She'd need to post everything on Sharepoint for Genius-Boy to take it. randome Sep 2015 #2
The msm would rather sensationalize any crumb to the made-up story. It sells riversedge Sep 2015 #3
RW smear or a fact that the head of NSA said RiverLover Sep 2015 #4
But tech and forensics found no evidence of hacking or wiping. BlueWaveDem Sep 2015 #10
Actually, that isn't true. jeff47 Sep 2015 #20
Very true, Roger. Plus, another security problem with the government Hortensis Sep 2015 #5
And the State Dept servers are under constant attack. BlueWaveDem Sep 2015 #7
The problem, as has been stated time again, Le Taz Hot Sep 2015 #8
+1000 nt restorefreedom Sep 2015 #15
Your assumption is based on a false premise. Motown_Johnny Sep 2015 #9
"I'm very sorry," Motown_Johnny, but rogerashton Sep 2015 #14
What evidence was presented in your OP? Motown_Johnny Sep 2015 #16
1) is false. jeff47 Sep 2015 #22
With respect to the primary campaign, it's now gone beyond emails and the server HereSince1628 Sep 2015 #12
It would be hypocritical of anyone who supported Eddie treestar Sep 2015 #17
Wait, what? ljm2002 Sep 2015 #18
Actually, you're completely wrong. Her server security was awful. jeff47 Sep 2015 #19
Great post, important FACTS, not rw bs. RiverLover Sep 2015 #21
It would sink like a stone. jeff47 Sep 2015 #23
Probably so. RiverLover Sep 2015 #24
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