Oh, she can purge, but, what was the back-up strategy on that server?
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Working with DoD (contract), I doubt many people realize the upper and shear amount of ‘B.S.’ one must go through to setup, let alone utilize a secure/secret computer.
The below is for SECRET clearance/work we are/were doing:
- Locks must be changed to ‘compliant’ types (push button, keyed, etc.)
- ‘Security’ of walls must be assured (outside walls must be blocked/hard to access) - no punching through the drywall for entry.
- NO electronics can come into that room, no USB/portables
- Sign-in/out
- Security stickers on each and EVERY piece of equipment for each/EVERY way to open
- Router/firewall/ports must be blocked/locked-out
- Inspections whenever
- No media EVERY leaves the room. Any paper/CD/DVD is cross-shredded before leaving and is re-shredded when taken off site (for burning I presume)
I couldn’t imagine the S* storm that could come down on us for ANY lapse of protocol; even involuntary.
No way she was running an unauthorized classified system connected to SIPRnet or JWICS. Huge paper trail and many others involved to setting something like that up. I can certainly believe she was not sending or receiving classified documents marked TS or SCI (attached PDFs or MSWord docs) on a .com account. A more relevant question is if the contents of the typed text were properly marked such as FOUO or SBU or whether any classified info crept into anything she typed or received. Although she had Orignial Classification Authority for State she most certainly was dealing nearly every day with information classified by other authorities. The likelihood that foreign spies were reading her .com emails is very high. I’d lose my clearance and get fired if I did anything close to what she did.