Hillary Clinton’s lack of accountability for security breaches at State
It is quite amazing and disturbing the way Clinton’s spin doctors and the neoliberal press have spun the story of Clinton’s illegal basement email server into a tale of “Russia is attacking the United States” with no accountability for Clinton for the shocking lack of computer security at State.
Why were emails not encrypted with PGP so if they were hacked or leaked there would still be an additional layer of protection?
Why were they using passwords instead of dual key encryption with passphrases and two or more factor authentication for access?
Why did she set up an insecure server at home and redirect her official emails to it? A server that reportedly did not support DKIM, so that to communicate with it, DKIM had to be turned off at State as well?
Why in the world when folks at State received phishing emails, and checked with their IT folks, they were told yes go ahead and click on them and put in your password?
Where was their intrusion detection system? Did nobody notice hey all of our emails are being downloaded to a compromised machine in Germany?
Why was TLS reportedly not set up correctly on HC’s basement server when it was set up?
Why was a server configuration program, probably cpanel, left open to the outside world on HC’s server? Given that it was set up by a moonlighting guy from State’s IT, Brian Pagliano, was this also true of severs at State?
Was tripwire running on any of these servers so folks could say hey there’s weird changes happening on our servers that shouldn’t ever happen such as log files getting smaller?
When Pagliano detected that Clinton’s home server had been breached and shut it down, why the fuck did they start it up again. Why was it not shut down for good at this point?
And where is the accountability for Clinton? All we are hearing is Putin, Putin, Putin.
I can’t categorically say that State, the DNC, Clinton’s email would not have been hacked if I was in charge, because there is no such thing as perfect security. But none of the specific things I mentioned above would have happened, that’s for sure.
Copyright © 2016 Henry Edward Hardy
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