My favorite Right wing buddy Morgan Warstler tweeted me on Hillary. He's trying to convince me that she has been hacked because her private email server was private but insecure-which when you think about it is sort of contradictory.
To me, though, we've seen this movie before-remember Whitewater which was also going to spell the end for her and her husband? Morgan sent me this Bloomberg piece. The upshot seems to be that private email is inherently insecure-though when you look at it, the government websites have been hacked plenty of times and if anything the State Department email system has had its glitches-it had lost a whole slew of emails.
"A week before becoming secretary of state, Hillary Clinton set up a private e-mail system that gave her a high level of control over communications, including the ability to erase messages completely, according to security experts who have examined Internet records."
“You erase it and everything’s gone,” Matt Devost, a security expert who has had his own private e-mail for years. Commercial services like those from Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. retain copies even after users erase them from their in-box.
"Although Clinton worked hard to secure the private system, her consultants appear to have set it up with a misconfigured encryption system, something that left it vulnerable to hacking, said Alex McGeorge, head of threat intelligence at Immunity Inc., a Miami Beach-based digital security firm."
"There are tons of disadvantages of not having teams of government people to make sure that mail server isn’t compromised,” McGeorge said. “It’s just inherently less secure.”
"Former Florida Governor and likely 2016 Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush used a personal e-mail while he was governor and has done so since, according to his spokeswoman, Kristy Campbell. He kept a server he owned in his state office and didn’t have a private server at home, Campbell said in a phone interview."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-04/clinton-s-e-mail-system-built-for-privacy-though-not-security
But of course Jeb using a private email and still using it now is totally different-as he's not Hillary and therefore not subject to the Clinton Rules.
"Bush differed from Clinton in that it was known he was using a personal e-mail, his aides had regular access to the server and “his office consistently throughout his term complied with Florida’s public records laws,” Campbell said.
"In order to ensure her e-mails were private, Clinton’s system appeared to use a commercial encryption product from Fortinet -- a good step, McGeorge said.
"However, when McGeorge examined the set-up this week he found it used a default encryption “certificate,” instead of one purchased specifically for Clinton’s service. Encryption certificates are like digital security badges, which websites use to signal to incoming browsers that they are legitimate."
As usual it's different when the Clinton's do the same thing everyone else does. For everybody else it's ok-for them, it shows they 'cut corners.'
So the issue is not that it was private email but that she didn't tell anyone she was using private email? Why do the email stories keep talking about her private emails then?
But then this sort of undercuts the whole thesis that her email was insecure:
"Fortinet issued a statement saying it wasn’t aware the company’s technologies were used by Clinton.
“If they were, our recommendation is to replace provided self-signed certificates with valid digital certificates for the protected domains,” said Andrea Cousens, a Fortinet spokeswoman.
“It may have fallen in the realm of acceptable risk,” Devost said. “They wanted to make sure that when she was in Egypt all of the traffic from her phone to the mail server was encrypted and that was their priority.”
To actually deal in fact on the email hoax I recommend checking this out.
"National Journal: “It is unclear whether the State Department could have actually provided stronger protections, as the agency has not been exempt from cyber vulnerabilities.” “It is unclear whether the State Department could have actually provided stronger protections, as the agency has not been exempt from cyber vulnerabilities. Late last year, the agency was forced to shut down its email system after hackers apparently infiltrated the network.”
http://correctrecord.org/hillary-clintons-email-not-a-scandal/ her email is not a scandal
To me, though, we've seen this movie before-remember Whitewater which was also going to spell the end for her and her husband? Morgan sent me this Bloomberg piece. The upshot seems to be that private email is inherently insecure-though when you look at it, the government websites have been hacked plenty of times and if anything the State Department email system has had its glitches-it had lost a whole slew of emails.
"A week before becoming secretary of state, Hillary Clinton set up a private e-mail system that gave her a high level of control over communications, including the ability to erase messages completely, according to security experts who have examined Internet records."
“You erase it and everything’s gone,” Matt Devost, a security expert who has had his own private e-mail for years. Commercial services like those from Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. retain copies even after users erase them from their in-box.
"Although Clinton worked hard to secure the private system, her consultants appear to have set it up with a misconfigured encryption system, something that left it vulnerable to hacking, said Alex McGeorge, head of threat intelligence at Immunity Inc., a Miami Beach-based digital security firm."
"There are tons of disadvantages of not having teams of government people to make sure that mail server isn’t compromised,” McGeorge said. “It’s just inherently less secure.”
"Former Florida Governor and likely 2016 Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush used a personal e-mail while he was governor and has done so since, according to his spokeswoman, Kristy Campbell. He kept a server he owned in his state office and didn’t have a private server at home, Campbell said in a phone interview."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-04/clinton-s-e-mail-system-built-for-privacy-though-not-security
But of course Jeb using a private email and still using it now is totally different-as he's not Hillary and therefore not subject to the Clinton Rules.
"Bush differed from Clinton in that it was known he was using a personal e-mail, his aides had regular access to the server and “his office consistently throughout his term complied with Florida’s public records laws,” Campbell said.
"In order to ensure her e-mails were private, Clinton’s system appeared to use a commercial encryption product from Fortinet -- a good step, McGeorge said.
"However, when McGeorge examined the set-up this week he found it used a default encryption “certificate,” instead of one purchased specifically for Clinton’s service. Encryption certificates are like digital security badges, which websites use to signal to incoming browsers that they are legitimate."
As usual it's different when the Clinton's do the same thing everyone else does. For everybody else it's ok-for them, it shows they 'cut corners.'
So the issue is not that it was private email but that she didn't tell anyone she was using private email? Why do the email stories keep talking about her private emails then?
But then this sort of undercuts the whole thesis that her email was insecure:
"Fortinet issued a statement saying it wasn’t aware the company’s technologies were used by Clinton.
“If they were, our recommendation is to replace provided self-signed certificates with valid digital certificates for the protected domains,” said Andrea Cousens, a Fortinet spokeswoman.
“It may have fallen in the realm of acceptable risk,” Devost said. “They wanted to make sure that when she was in Egypt all of the traffic from her phone to the mail server was encrypted and that was their priority.”
To actually deal in fact on the email hoax I recommend checking this out.
"National Journal: “It is unclear whether the State Department could have actually provided stronger protections, as the agency has not been exempt from cyber vulnerabilities.” “It is unclear whether the State Department could have actually provided stronger protections, as the agency has not been exempt from cyber vulnerabilities. Late last year, the agency was forced to shut down its email system after hackers apparently infiltrated the network.”
http://correctrecord.org/hillary-clintons-email-not-a-scandal/ her email is not a scandal
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