Clinton tried to change rules to use BlackBerry in secure facility for classified information |...

Thank you for being so genteel w/ your remark! Nuf said!

Try to keep it clean...You know

TSgt Frank Shirley - ?????????

Sorry MSgt Michael Bischoff the asshole in me can answer your last question. President George Bush when at the end of his second term did not run for re-election, followed the rules. The time before that it was Bill Clinton at the end of his Second Term. So it happens every four to eight years.

No, the story is about her staff trying, and ultimately failing, to get a BB exception for her. The chances she got the exception are essentially nonexistent. And it's worth noting that this behavior of wanting special exemptions -- while I don't condone it -- is common among senior personnel of every political stripe, but you don't see anyone other than Hillary catching flak for it; that's partisan hackery, plain and simple.

PO1 (Servicemember) - If you believe for one second that every asshat in congress isn't trying to get exceptions, back doors, overrides, and anything else that they can because they are special, I would like to sell you a bridge. Goes to Hawaii. 8 lanes in each direction. Point being that this is an attack on Hillary based on business as usual in DC. Do I support her? Hel no! Do I think she is qualified for the office of President? Hel No! That doesn't mean that I am going to jump on every "breaking news" article that paints her in a negative light either. She has dug herself a big enough hole when it comes to data security, this is just piling on with a non issue.
I stand by my original point that one of our national security offices is going to have to treat this as permanent issue, as going forward there are going to be more people wanting mobile devices in classified spaces rather than fewer. In the photo (white house situation room, night Osama Bin Laden received Navy Seal Lobotomy) you can see several laptop computers connected to network cables. Each one of those is sending and receiving data. Each one of those is a mobile device in a classified space. Most modern laptops will have a video camera and microphone built in to the machine. That means they can record everything that is happening in a classified space, then be removed from the space. The only difference between that and a blackberry is that a blackberry doesn't need the wire. A better means of securing it would be to jam wifi and cellular signals to and from classified spaces.

Her black berry was not issued by any agency. It was not secured. Even with secured phones, there are limits with what can and can't be sent over them.

MSgt (Join to see) - It is going to come to a point where a president elect is going to need to be issued a smartphone by (choose your security agency) because we are living in an age where instant messaging, E-mail, and cell phones are the way most people communicate. The days of picking up a desk phone are either gone or numbered. So while you are correct that hers was no more secure than yours or mine, she was attempting to get an exemption so she could use continue using it where she really shouldn't be using it. Let's face it classified information of any kind should never be sent via digital media. No matter how secure the information is, there are always people trying to hack it. The more valuable the data, the more people are dedicating to hacking that data. Information Security is a battle which cannot be won. It is a battle that will last until the end of the world. During the cold war that battle was fought on paper and over telephone lines. Now it is being fought on mobile devices, telephone lines, internet lines, and yes still on paper. As technology advances information security needs to advance with it, or the security of our nation is put at risk.