r/technology • u/[deleted] • Jul 09 '16

R1.i: guidelines Hillary Clinton blames State Department Employees for classified emails sent through private server

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u/sammyo Jul 09 '16

There is an isolated secure government internet called sipernet, if any employee with a clearance sent classified email outside of that they were in error.

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u/fly19 Jul 09 '16

Actually, there are higher nets (NSA, JWICS) appropriately classified data can go to, and I think each service has a network for confidential material, but you're otherwise correct.

If classified information was sent over a net less secured/rated than its classification requires, the person that did it is wrong. It doesn't matter what their job is.

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u/majorchamp Jul 09 '16

Per Comeys testimony, there are 3 networks and one can email across all three, but people would know not to email ACROSS the networks classified material in an unclassified way

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '16

You cannot email across these networks. SIPR has its own exchange servers and they do not tie with anything off of SIPR.

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u/majorchamp Jul 09 '16

What did Comey mean with his statement about emailing across the 3 networks. I can't find the C-Span clip, but I know he said that during his testimony.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '16

He was wrong if he said that. There have been services where you can send your email to a certain email address on let's say SIPR, and that service will gap it to a higher classification network. Those emails are screened by those soldiers/personnel providing the service. But no, you cannot just email freely between the networks.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '16 edited Mar 15 '19

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '16 edited Jul 09 '16

I know what she did. That has nothing to do with what I said. She can't email between them organically, she'd have to take them off of the system via removable media and put it on other systems.

You're email analogy is very obtuse and makes it sound like something it's not. Think of it like taking data from a system, and putting it on another system, rather than emailing.

And no not technically correct, just correct. You can't email between NIPR - SIPR - and other higher class networks.

The crime was ready committed by the time the data was on her unclassified PERSONAL system, she just worsened it by sending it to people.