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The political communications are done with WhatsApp. This is illegal of course.

There has been no discussion of the obvious national security risk.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/mar/22/uk-ministers-acc...

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This isn't even limited to the UK. In the US, we have presidents, vice presidents, and presidential candidates all under investigation for mishandling records by running their own e-mail servers. The most charitable explanation being that they don't want to have to deal with separate personal and work devices; the less charitable explanation being "fuck records laws".

I was a federal contractor for NASA and let me tell you about government email: quota of 250MB of storage (2010-2012).

I spent every morning moving emails with attachments to local folders on my Mac (which had no backups) to keep from going over quota. If I went on a 2 week vacation emails would start to bounce to me.

After that fiasco I understood why Colin Powell told Hillary Clinton to just run her own email server (for non-classified communication).

So what was keeping the President from just issuing an Executive Order increasing the email storage quota?

That would require increase in the backing storage.

The most charitable reason would be “I don’t want to deal with corporate Bs”. I’m sure we’ve all worked in those types of places.

Doesn’t really apply when it’s the Exco board though, if they say jump then it’s the CTOs job to make it happen.

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