A rare lapse in following procedure, likely accidental, is not even on the same planet as setting up a private email server to avoid oversight.
Those emails would still be safer on gmail than in some small IT firm's bathroom closet.
Those emails would still be safer on gmail than in some small IT firm's bathroom closet.
Isn't it far more likely that she instructed someone on her staff to instruct someone in the back office to instruct some underpaid admin to just "make crap work so I can stop using dialup?"
I know we cannot prove a negative, but I'd bet $100 she couldn't edit an /etc/sendmail.cf without bricking it. (I know that's not your point, I just find it an amusing thought.)
Edit: parent was edited and my reply appears nonsensical. The parent stated that the server was set up to avoid oversight, which I do not believe has been established as true.
Still does.
> I do not believe has been established as true
The only reason for someone in her position to set up a private email server is to avoid oversight - it's bizarre that anyone could think otherwise - the burden of proof is on her at this point.
It was just sitting in an office. A single person could have literally kicked in the door and waltzed off with a huge cache of state secrets, and we probably wouldn't even have a video tape of the theft.
The server was not secure enough to be storing state secrets. There's no arguing against this.