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LiberalArkie

(15,686 posts)
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 02:32 PM Mar 2016

NSA wanted Hillary Clinton to use this secure Windows phone



Newly released documents under the Freedom of Information Act show that Hillary Clinton, then-secretary of state had asked the National Security Agency to supply her with the same modified, strengthened BlackBerry used by President Barack Obama.

The request was eventually denied, citing security concerns as the intelligence agency was trying to cut down on the rise in BlackBerry users across the State Department.

But because parts of Clinton's department was designated a sensitive compartmentalized facility (SCIF), an enclosed area used to prevent external eavesdropping, government policy prevented the secretary and her staff from using uncleared cellular devices.

The nearest "BlackBerry-like" solution supported by the NSA at the time was costly -- each device would cost the government about $4,750 and the secure server infrastructure (and associated costs) would add another $30,000 to the bill. But the phone itself wasn't very "BlackBerry-like" in design or ease-of-use, according to the State Department's security director at the time.


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http://www.zdnet.com/article/nsa-wanted-hillary-clinton-to-use-this-secure-windows-phone/
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NSA wanted Hillary Clinton to use this secure Windows phone (Original Post) LiberalArkie Mar 2016 OP
Think OPSEC. Octafish Mar 2016 #1
I agree. Wilms Mar 2016 #4
IOT to enter the seed of doubt. Either way, they're monitored, too. Octafish Mar 2016 #8
From what I've read the state department didn't have the Infastructure to support the phone NWCorona Mar 2016 #10
Thanks NWC. Wilms Mar 2016 #11
Over the decades, once thing is certain: Anything with the word "WINDOWS" in it ISN'T SECURE! nt TheBlackAdder Mar 2016 #2
Yup. Agschmid Mar 2016 #6
Phone envy NWCorona Mar 2016 #3
Secure? Windows? speaktruthtopower Mar 2016 #5
True but it was more secure than the off the shelf BlackBerry Hillary used NWCorona Mar 2016 #7
It must have just eaten her up inside that Barack could have a Blackberry and she couldn't. frylock Mar 2016 #9
 

Wilms

(26,795 posts)
4. I agree.
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 05:14 PM
Mar 2016

Pretty stupid of HRC to "go rogue", but why couldn't she be offered the same service as the President??

What she did get what was plausible deniability as to why she did what she did.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
8. IOT to enter the seed of doubt. Either way, they're monitored, too.
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 05:43 PM
Mar 2016

Who is at the top of the grid?

And what the hell is going if the most powerful man in the world and the most powerful woman in the world can't get a secure line?

Why can't they? Who can?

Secret Government is so un-American, it's not even funny.

NWCorona

(8,541 posts)
10. From what I've read the state department didn't have the Infastructure to support the phone
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 06:00 PM
Mar 2016

Obama's BlackBerry never touches a commercial cell tower.

The state department couldn't guarantee that about Hillary's.

 

Wilms

(26,795 posts)
11. Thanks NWC.
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 06:03 PM
Mar 2016

I can make sense out of that. And like I said, she "went rogue". We don't need that.

frylock

(34,825 posts)
9. It must have just eaten her up inside that Barack could have a Blackberry and she couldn't.
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 05:56 PM
Mar 2016

Who does he think he is?

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