Reckless users and antiquated technology represent the federal government’s most critical cybersecurity vulnerabilities, House Oversight Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz said on Wednesday, a problem he said was exemplified by Hillary Clinton’s practice of buying Blackberry devices from eBay.
“We have a huge problem with personnel,” Chaffetz said at a forum in Washington, D.C. “I don’t want to get into this too much, but part of what was happening with the secretary of state was, she was acquiring technology that wasn’t even supported by Blackberry. You couldn’t buy it. She was actually buying this stuff off of eBay because somebody was selling their old machine. That’s what she liked, so she did. It creates this huge vulnerability. And it’s unnecessary.”
Notes released on Friday by the FBI revealed that Clinton used 13 personal devices as secretary of state, including eight Blackberrys. Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, is leading a congressional investigation into information the agency obtained from Clinton during an inquiry into her personal network setup.
Unless you buy new, from a store, picking the store and the specific item at random in an unplanned trip, the device may be compromised. If you order from mail, and the source wasn’t compromised, it can even be diverted to a government facility that specializes in covertly installing monitoring tech, before it continues on its journey to you. And all of that is on the already sizable security risk a phone can present. That Hillary was this incompetent, is unbelievable.
When you have servicemen doing time, who just took a picture they never shared of a radar screen, or accidently sent one small blip over unsecure email as part of their duties while exhausted in a war zone and then immediately self-reported, it is unfathomable that Hilary could not only walk scot-free, but run for President to boot.
Trump needs to push for a law – nobody can be convicted of any crime, if they can show a celebrity, cultural figure, or politician performed the same crime or worse, and walked free without prosecution. If you do the crime, it should at least result in a charge.
You will either defang the government’s power (and force the government to do the defanging itself by not prosecuting the public figure and thereby invalidating the law) or you will force the government to prosecute all cases equally, which is what I would assume would happen, since government does not like defanging itself.
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