I can’t believe the amount of pathetic excuses they’ve come up with, first with the IRS, and now Hillary.
Electronic data doesn’t go away, especially emails, when it’s on the internet. You would have to ACTIVELY seek to destroy the data.
This is stuff a kid in Middle School knows.
Amazing isn’t it. What people don’t understand is, when an email is sent it arrives and is stored on ANOTHER server, which is most likely backed up.
The sender has a copy and the recipient has a copy. Both reside on different servers.
Email is extremely hard to get rid of. It almost never dies.
Normally, with real companies and real government agencies, there’s a plan that requires a back-up. The most you ever lose is a day of traffic, if something serious would happen. Go to all Fortune 500 companies, and they utilize a back-up strategy. Go to all US gov’t agencies, and they utilize a back-up strategy. Most major cities in the US today, have a back-up strategy.
So, you come to the Clinton Foundation. I’m not that sure that they hired competent people to run the IT structure there or not. Maybe they’ve got some community college graduate and he just designed a simple server with no bells or whistles. No one has even said a word about the firewall, or virus issues yet.
In the 2010 period, when I worked with a gov’t agency and classified breaches would occur....they had a cost factor that they would assign to the person who caused the problem....which got into the two or three thousand dollar region real quick. If you charge by the hour, I’m guessing the Hillary episode is up around the $30,000 level already.