RacerDeac
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Wait a second, I don't know that. How so? Im playing devil's advocate here, but I don't agree that a private entity can't secure an email server as well if not better than the federal government can. You sound like you are in the biz, you should know that. Securing/monitoring an email server is not rocket science or just the purview of government. I would argue that private parties can and do secure email just as well as the military, if not better. Again, just playing devil's advocate. There is a lot of fear mongering going on here.
1) Most simply, if it had been heavily secured, there would be records of that and they would have been handed over as soon as this scandal struck. Why would Hillary keep evidence of her excellent email security to herself?
2) Lots of small things point in the general direction of lax security: publicly available OWA login, which is a security risk itself...even worse, before it was recently taken offline, it was a pretty outdated version; old hardware system setup from when Bill retired; use of IIS v7.5 with known vulnerabilities since 2010; other things I've read but don't remember off hand. None of them point to a server that was actively monitored and updated. Hell, for the first three months she didn't even have a security certificate. Her domain was from Network Solutions, which was hacked and had lots of domains re-pointed to a Ukranian IP back in 2010...much easier to hack and spoof than a .GOV domain.
3) Let's be honest, the infrastructure around the State Department email system, despite being the federal government, is still some of the best that exists. It is supported by NSA Einstein Project. They should have the ability to monitor and catch intrusions better than most anyone else in the world. They certainly have the infrastructure and data storage needed. It's unlikely that any Private business, much less a personal setup, could provide that level of monitoring and security this side of a Google or Apple. You can play Devil's Advocate, but there's simply no way that Hillary could have better secured her server than the State Department could have. Her ONLY advantage, and it's a small one, is obscurity...but we know from Guccifer that her email address was known to hackers before it was known to the public. Once her domain was known, she's at a huge disadvantage.