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The comments from those still insisting she should be in jail are hilarious.
Both Clinton and Comey should be disciplined. Security of classified information is not a matter where "Look, Look, he did it too!" is a valid argument or excuse. Neither Gmail nor whatever software that homebrew email server was running is especially secure. It is actually possible that the Gmail might be slightly more secure than whatever Clinton was using, since backdooring into Gmail could be significantly more difficult if the server was not patched and set up properly, but we'll never know. Considering the average politician/bureaucrat uses passwords like "password123" or the name of their pet if you let them, probably neither was very safe.
Oh puhleese! I'm sorry but this is false equivalence bullshit.Both Clinton ... should be disciplined. ...
First -- whatever she was using? She was using a server set up for a president of the United States, housed in a building controlled by the Secret Service.
Second, considering the current occupant of the WH is using, perpetually, an unsecured phone, and destroying documents (which is against the law), and that SEVERAL people in the administration, including people with West Wing access, like Kushner and Ivanka Trump, are using private email... on servers NOT set up and secured by the SS, wellllll...
All of this points out a significant weakness. Cybersecurity is a gigantic problem and most government agencies wrestle with it on a daily basis. Typical elected officials and high level bureaucrats have the same grasp of cybersecurity as they have of quantum mechanics. It's a constant struggle to get them to follow basic security procedures, and some will willfully disregard them if they can get away with it. The most basic of security procedures would have prevented the Democratic Party email hack during the election. It was a simple phishing email sent out that should have been caught but was not, and then a high-level staffer decided to click on it and infect the network with the virus that allowed the email harvest (which basic patching of the primary server should have prevented). This is, again, basic stuff. There's some evidence that the hack was attempted on the GOP side as well, but they had a more up-to-date security system, and the phishing email was caught before it could do any harm.
Cybersecurity is only as good as it's weakest link.
Again, I'll point out that "look, they are doing it too" is no excuse for any of this. Your takeaway from this should be "Oh, crap, everybody is saying screw security". Everybody pointing fingers and calling it hypocrisy is missing the point that it's not a Democrat or Republican problem, it's a problem everywhere in the Fedgov. This data flowing around is vulnerable, and until everybody gets on board with the program, hacks are going to happen.
Considering the average politician/bureaucrat uses passwords like "password123" or the name of their pet if you let them, probably neither was very safe.