2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: About Guccifer's new hacking claim [View all]It's been pointed out that even if she'd used Gmail or Yahoo mail, her email would have been much more secure, because they spend a lot of time and money on security. Clinton basically had one guy (Bryan Pagliano) managing the server who had a full time job in another state who appears not to have really known what he was doing. There have been numerous articles about how poor the security was. For instance, the first two months Clinton was secretary of state, her server had no encryption on it at all! And this was while she traveled to about a dozen countries using her BlackBerry, including China. You literally could not do worse than have NO security.
Then, after Pagliano left, she handed management to a company called Platte River Networks. They were like your neighborhood mom 'n pop computer repair shop. They operated out of an apartment in an apartment building, and didn't even have an alarm system! And yet Clinton trusted them with emails that turned out to contain top secret and even above top secret information.
It truly boggles the mind. Anyone who claims that Clinton's private server could have been safer than the State Department simply don't know what they're talking about. Maybe in theory that could be true, if it had been done right with an entire team of experts managing it, but the way it was actually done was amateur hour all the way.