RE: In addition to the server, Hilary "abandoned secure line to use home phone"
May 19, 2016 at 2:29 pm
(May 19, 2016 at 2:11 pm)abaris Wrote: You of all people should know that there is no absolute security. The foreign powers curious for any politician spilling the beans, have their methods. Snowden should have taught us that much. And it's not only the NSA. I'm sure it's GCHQ and the BND also. In the opposite direction as well as supporting the efforts of the NSA.
Practically, there is no such thing as absolutely security. Theoretically, there most certainly is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
In most cases, even with sensitive documents, we don't need absolutely security though, we need good security. Clinton's server was scanned in 2012 as part of an "Internet census" that a security researcher performed. The server had a vulnerable instance of RDP, and for 3 months did not have an SSL certificate installed, meaning email communication was entirely unencrypted.
Thanks to Snowden, we know that the NSA have abilities that we didn't know about before, but we also know they are not all-powerful. As far as we know, with a decent TLS configuration, the NSA would not be able to decrypt the communications.
So yes, there's no such thing as absolute security, but nobody is asking for that. The government have teams which know how to secure systems so that they are practically unbreakable. Clinton's server, lacking such oversight, was not at all secure.
