Security of Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server comes under scrutiny

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/security-of-hillary-clintons-private-e-mail-server-comes-under-scrutiny/2015/03/10/fcccfb78-c737-11e4-aa1a-86135599fb0f_story.html

By Ellen Nakashima
The Washington Post
March 10, 2015

The private e-mail server used by Hillary Rodham Clinton all but certainly 
lacked the level of security employed by the government and could have 
been breached fairly easily by determined foreign intelligence services, 
national security and cyber experts said.

In the wake of last week’s revelation that Clinton used a private e-mail 
account as secretary of state, critics have questioned whether that 
decision left sensitive government communications vulnerable to hackers. 
At a news conference Tuesday, Clinton said the server was set up for her 
husband, former president Bill Clinton, at their house in Chappaqua, N.Y., 
which she said was guarded by the Secret Service.

“I think . . . the use of the server . . . certainly proved to be 
effective and secure,” she said.

But such assurances have not persuaded technical experts.

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