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To: pepsionice
By not having the gov't email account....she never completed security training (for the whole four years) and will be able to cite that as her chief line of defense.

I’m not too sure that will fly. From Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton:

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.


10 posted on 02/05/2016 5:11:46 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Ah, the vaunted “ghost writer” defense... ;-P


15 posted on 02/05/2016 5:30:34 AM PST by MortMan (I am offended by those who believe they have a right not to be offended.)
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