Posted on Nov 17, 2015
Tired of hearing that those Damn Emails were gross negligence?!
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In August, the intelligence community's inspector general, Charles McCullough III, told Congress that he discovered two emails sent to Clinton that contained information classified as "Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information," which is the government's highest levels of classification. Those emails were discovered in a sample of only about 40 emails.
And an email sent to Clinton reportedly contained the name of a CIA asset in Libya.
Clinton's unusual email system was originally set up by a staffer during Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, replacing a server used by her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Facing criticism earlier this year for her use of the server, Clinton handed over about 30,000 work-related emails for the State Department to make public. She also deleted about 31,000 emails she says were personal. She handed over the entire server to the FBI in August.
Over the past three months, officials examining Clinton's emails have determined that some of the information that passed through her inbox is now considered either classified or top secret and should not have been discussed over such an unsecured platform.
Indeed, according to a lengthy Reuters investigation, much of the information Clinton sent and received was inherently classified even if it was not marked as such at the time.
And reports that hackers in China, South Korea, Germany, and Russia tried to break into her server have raised questions about the kind of security precautions she took to safeguard this sensitive information.
And according to a new AP investigation, the way Clinton's server was connected to the internet — via a Microsoft remote-desktop service that permitted remote-access connections without additional protective measures — made it particularly vulnerable to hackers, which is something experts say her own security experts should have known.
But because Clinton made a conscious decision to bypass the State Department's server — and the millions of dollars the government has spent to protect it — in favor of her own risky setup, her ignorance of the technological particulars is a poor excuse, Joe Loomis, CEO of CyberSponse.
"The fact that Clinton chose to use her personal email instead of a .gov account shows that she obviously doesn't understand security," Loomis said. "What she did is like inviting spies over to dinner — every device connected to the internet is an opportunity for them to collect intelligence.
"This world is full of cyberwarfare, and your computer is a part of that war zone."
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obamas-comments-hillary-clintons-email-143500810.html
Why did Hillary Clinton take it upon herself to ignore State Department regulations, wave aside the concerns of government security specialists, and set up your own mail server? Clinton’s IT adviser, Bryan Pagliano, pled the Fifth to avoid discussing her server.
The kind of exploits Hillary Clinton’s server was vulnerable to are precisely the sort that allow hacking with minimal traces of the intruder’s presence. Computer hacking intruders who went undetected for months or years, hacked systems vastly better secured and maintained than Hillary Clinton’s. Foreign intelligence services take pains to keep secrets they have pilfered, and their methods, quiet for as long as possible, since stolen information loses much of its value once the target becomes aware of the theft.
United States Code, Title 18, Section 793 – Gathering, Transmitting, Or Losing Defense
Information
(1) Through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed.
(2) Having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer, will be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten (10) years, or both.
And an email sent to Clinton reportedly contained the name of a CIA asset in Libya.
Clinton's unusual email system was originally set up by a staffer during Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, replacing a server used by her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Facing criticism earlier this year for her use of the server, Clinton handed over about 30,000 work-related emails for the State Department to make public. She also deleted about 31,000 emails she says were personal. She handed over the entire server to the FBI in August.
Over the past three months, officials examining Clinton's emails have determined that some of the information that passed through her inbox is now considered either classified or top secret and should not have been discussed over such an unsecured platform.
Indeed, according to a lengthy Reuters investigation, much of the information Clinton sent and received was inherently classified even if it was not marked as such at the time.
And reports that hackers in China, South Korea, Germany, and Russia tried to break into her server have raised questions about the kind of security precautions she took to safeguard this sensitive information.
And according to a new AP investigation, the way Clinton's server was connected to the internet — via a Microsoft remote-desktop service that permitted remote-access connections without additional protective measures — made it particularly vulnerable to hackers, which is something experts say her own security experts should have known.
But because Clinton made a conscious decision to bypass the State Department's server — and the millions of dollars the government has spent to protect it — in favor of her own risky setup, her ignorance of the technological particulars is a poor excuse, Joe Loomis, CEO of CyberSponse.
"The fact that Clinton chose to use her personal email instead of a .gov account shows that she obviously doesn't understand security," Loomis said. "What she did is like inviting spies over to dinner — every device connected to the internet is an opportunity for them to collect intelligence.
"This world is full of cyberwarfare, and your computer is a part of that war zone."
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obamas-comments-hillary-clintons-email-143500810.html
Why did Hillary Clinton take it upon herself to ignore State Department regulations, wave aside the concerns of government security specialists, and set up your own mail server? Clinton’s IT adviser, Bryan Pagliano, pled the Fifth to avoid discussing her server.
The kind of exploits Hillary Clinton’s server was vulnerable to are precisely the sort that allow hacking with minimal traces of the intruder’s presence. Computer hacking intruders who went undetected for months or years, hacked systems vastly better secured and maintained than Hillary Clinton’s. Foreign intelligence services take pains to keep secrets they have pilfered, and their methods, quiet for as long as possible, since stolen information loses much of its value once the target becomes aware of the theft.
United States Code, Title 18, Section 793 – Gathering, Transmitting, Or Losing Defense
Information
(1) Through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed.
(2) Having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer, will be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten (10) years, or both.
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