Posted on 09/08/2015 12:55:43 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion
Like other sensitive government agencies the State Department was frequently target and increasingly sophisticated phishing attempts. When we first arrived at State, these attempts were similar to the fraudulent emails many Americans experience at home on their personal computers. The often sloppy early attempts to penetrate our secure systems were easy to spot. But by 2012, the sophistication and fluency had advanced considerably, with the attackers impersonating State Department officials in an attempt to dupe their colleagues into opening legitimate looking attachments.
When we traveled to sensitive places like Russia, we often received warnings from the Department security officials to leave our BlackBerries, laptops—anything that communicated with the outside world—on the plane, with their batteries removed to prevent foreign intelligence services from compromising them. Even in friendly settings we conducted business under strict security precautions, taking care where and how we read secret material and used our technology. One means of protecting material was to read it inside an opaque tent in a hotel room. In less well equipped settings we were told to improvise by reading sensitive material with a blanket over our head. I felt like I was 10 years old again, reading covertly by flashlight under the covers after bedtime. On more than one occasion I was cautioned not to speak freely in my own hotel room.
And it wasn't just US government agencies and officials who were targets. American companies were also in the crosshairs. I fielded calls from frustrated CEOs complaining about aggressive theft of an intellectual property and trade secrets, even breaches of their home computers. To better focus our efforts against this increasingly serious threat, I appointed the Department’s first Coordinator for Cyber Issues in February 2011.
As you can see from the excerpt, the author of Hard Choices was at pains to make clear that she was not naïve WRT the security implications of classified information or of her use of a private server in lieu of the standard system.
I suspect that questions about the implications of this would not be particularly congenial to Mrs. Clinton . . .
Ping.
Uncle Sam has a brain tumor.. and it’s OBAMA..
Uncle Sam has become a pervert..
Who is the Coordinator for Cyber Issues? Is this the person who setup your secret email server(s)?
Thanks
Thanks! Neither Hillary nor Comey have any excuse for their actions...
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