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0 pointsrdtsc9y ago0 comments

> Nobody has managed to find any documents labeled as classified, let alone Top Secret.

Really? So you can just delete all the classification labels and send the document to a yahoo account. Look no labels, so it is fine? You better ask your friendly Security Officer about that (actually don't you'll be highly suspicious doing that).

She had 10 or so TS/SCI satellite images in there. Other people would go to jail for that...

She deliberately set up her own separate server, that wasn't an oops I slipped, one doesn't accidentally stumble and end up with a separate email server. Then classified documents up to TS/SCI were found on that server. Imagine an NSA or NRO employee doing that.

"So yeah, Jim, I just set up my own work email server at my house, just send work email there". "Oh, you found some satellite images there? You think you got me, however, see, classification markings are not there so it's fine"

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ChoHag9y ago

> one doesn't accidentally stumble and end up with a separate email server.

Have managed email servers. Can confirm. Would be more likely to arrive at Mordor on foot.

> Imagine an NSA or NRO employee doing that.

Well, one kind of did, but we like him. He's one of us.

caf9y ago

The "just send work email there" bit seems highly inaccurate. It seems pretty clear that the intention was for this server to be used for unclassified communication. You can't even send email from a classified to an unclassified network without clearly marking it as such.

Now clearly it is at best highly naive to think that a server handling the kind of volume of email that the Secretary of State would receive, much of it from people handling classified information, is going to be able to stay 100% free of classified contamination.

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