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jeff47

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35. "Long before" being the week before her confirmation hearings.

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 10:31 AM

Mar 2015

clintonemail.com was registered the week before her confirmation hearings.

The server was set up before that, and clintonemail.com added to it.

If you'd like an actual demonstration why this was a bad idea, you can go to http://clintonmail.com . Notice that there's no 'e' before 'mail'. And notice while they didn't bother setting up a web site, the domain exists. It's called typosquatting. Someone set up the domain while she was SoS. It's a great way to capture any emails when someone makes a typo in the address, and dropping the 'e' is a very easy typo to make.

When you're a government official, you aren't playing in the "Nigerian prince" league. You have large teams of extremely skilled people trying to get into your email. Think of everything the NSA can do, and remember Russia and China have the same abilities.

Choosing to host her own email was a bad idea. The handling of the non-scandal afterwards has been much worse.

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Huffpo: Hillary Clinton's Email Problem Is Unsolvable [View all] RiverLover Mar 2015 OP

Oh, yea, maybe we could follow Bill Kristol's advice and run Warren, he can beat her. Thinkingabout Mar 2015 #1

Especially if you're a lie lover. Stellar Mar 2015 #42

Lie Lover????? Thinkingabout Mar 2015 #43

ehh..that's the way I think of Bill Kristol... Stellar Mar 2015 #44

Oh Thinkingabout Mar 2015 #45

She still will run and likely win. hrmjustin Mar 2015 #2

Linkins is full of shit. MANative Mar 2015 #3

Most folks are worried about their own lives. They couldn't give a rip about somebody's e-mails/NT DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #6

Exactly! This flap will change nothing. n/t MANative Mar 2015 #7

Confirmation Bias DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #11

.. eh.. can someone please stop this ride, I would like to get off.. PLEASE! OLDMADAM Mar 2015 #25

If she runs, we lose. Four more years of yesterday's presser. Oh HELL No! NYC_SKP Mar 2015 #4

Your contempt for Secretary of State Clinton is only surpassed by my admiration for her./NT DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #5

And yet the new poll from yesterday shows that 86% of Dems support her and only 13% do not. leftofcool Mar 2015 #9

It must suck to have that much hate... DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #13

Yes, I am absolutely among her nonsupporting Democrats. NYC_SKP Mar 2015 #17

Fine by me. Like you said, she won't need your vote. leftofcool Mar 2015 #21

It is also true that Colin Powell admitted doing the same thing. onecaliberal Mar 2015 #8

Because it is Hillary. leftofcool Mar 2015 #10

Are any of them thinking of running for president in this coming round? NYC_SKP Mar 2015 #18

Then there was Mitt, who deleted all of his official correspondence as Governor of MA MANative Mar 2015 #22

I expect that kind of shit from a Republican. NYC_SKP Mar 2015 #40

My point is that if you're going to tell this story onecaliberal Mar 2015 #46

This is a pattern, she's an egomaniac, she's disqualified. No Fucking Way. NYC_SKP Mar 2015 #12

"Four more years of this. No..." DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #14

Its very shady. RiverLover Mar 2015 #15

Preach it Man from Pickens Mar 2015 #30

You said it. I don't understand the attraction she has for voters. NYC_SKP Mar 2015 #41

The problem is not the emails Proud Public Servant Mar 2015 #16

"Just didn't want to carry two phones, tee hee hee". She's the FUCKING SECRETARY OF STATE!!! NYC_SKP Mar 2015 #19

It was a pre-existing sever used by the 42nd president./NT DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #20

And guarded by the Secret Service, as I read somewhere last night. Think it was WaPo. n/t MANative Mar 2015 #23

You are 100% correct./NT DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #24

"Fact check: Hillary Rodham Clinton and her emails" RiverLover Mar 2015 #26

All the recent breaches have just proved that NO email system is entirely secure. MANative Mar 2015 #27

If they break the .gov systems, then it isn't her fault. If they broke her system, then it is. (nt) jeff47 Mar 2015 #32

Well DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #28

"Used by the 42nd president" former9thward Mar 2015 #29

that excuse already imploded Man from Pickens Mar 2015 #31

There is evidence that the server and the domain names were there long before HRC became SOS DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #33

"Long before" being the week before her confirmation hearings. jeff47 Mar 2015 #35

I'm not an archivist. My concerns are more plebeian. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #36

And this isn't about being an archivist, this is about security. jeff47 Mar 2015 #38

you've diverged from reality here Man from Pickens Mar 2015 #37

My main complaint is the ineptitude. jeff47 Mar 2015 #34

It's a fatal character flaw, invincibility and being above the others, she thinks she's special. NYC_SKP Mar 2015 #39