Posted on 09/08/2016 6:07:48 AM PDT by drewh
Reckless users and antiquated technology represent the federal government's most critical cybersecurity vulnerabilities, House Oversight Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz said on Wednesday, a problem he said was exemplified by Hillary Clinton's practice of buying Blackberry devices from eBay.
"We have a huge problem with personnel," Chaffetz said at a forum in Washington, D.C. "I don't want to get into this too much, but part of what was happening with the secretary of state was, she was acquiring technology that wasn't even supported by Blackberry. You couldn't buy it. She was actually buying this stuff off of eBay because somebody was selling their old machine. That's what she liked, so she did. It creates this huge vulnerability. And it's unnecessary."
Notes released on Friday by the FBI revealed that Clinton used 13 personal devices as secretary of state, including eight Blackberrys. Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, is leading a congressional investigation into information the agency obtained from Clinton during an inquiry into her personal network setup.
Chaffetz's remarks, delivered during an appearance at the American Enterprise Institute, came the same day his committee released a report detailing failures that led up to a breach at the Office of Personnel Management in 2015.
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MORE FROM WASHINGTON EXAMINER FBI: Clinton unable to locate any of 13 personal devices she used By Rudy Takala• September 2, 2016 | 2:25 pm He added that the same conditions enabling that breach still exist across the federal government, fueled fundamentally by old technology and too many people who have access to critical systems. "One of my concerns at the Department of Education is, you have more than 90,000 people authorized to go into the system. Tell me all 90,000 of them have a clean bill of health. That's just not realistic.
"If someone were to fire missile at us, we'd fire a missile back," Chaffetz said. "So if we know a hack is happening at a particular location, and we can pinpoint it, what do you do about it? What do you about it if it's coming out of Russia? I don't know, but we've got to prosecute this.
"I think the administration's sending all the wrong signals," Chaffetz added. "When you take all this classified information at the State Department, and you take four years of federal records, and you put them in a nonsecure location, you give 10 people or so access to all this information who don't have the proper security clearance, what do you think is going to happen?"
But Hillary said she wanted to use ‘one device’ for convenience?
Besides the security risk, who wants to bet she used someone else’s PayPal account to obtain them. Everything to hide, cloud, obscure, cover...
He is asking the wrong question!
“What do you think about Trump’s haircut? Isn’t it ugly!”
“ He hates women, blacks and Muslims, you know.”
/sarcham - That gaping hole between a liberal news media and the real world.
She operates like terrorists and drug dealers who use their phones for nefarious purposes for only a short while and then throw them away to prevent law enforcement detection.
She did use one device... she just had eight of the same devices...
Sen Grassley made the salient point that Huma Abedin may have been collecting political intelligence gleaned from unsuspecting State Dept officials that was then sold for a price.
Recall that Huma was a govt employee at the State Dept....then Hillary facilitated Huma having several other jobs.
One job was working for Teneo....the powerhouse company that is purported to be the vehicle foreign entities use to get access to the Clintons.
Makes one wonder what they were getting for their humongous donations to the Foundation.
All the wheels are coming off this morning, and yet she STILL has a 50-50 shot of becoming President.
Is a forked tongue considered ‘one device’?
What easier way to distribute non-attributed “drafts” with no fear of recovery.
Hillary knows how to use eBay?
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