I had a chat this AM with a serious high-level infosec professional with some military background.
I told him that I’d been saying since the HRC private server was first revealed, that based on my limited IT background, I expected every country with an intelligence apparatus worthy of the name had a copy of that server, and that our military and intelligence community had better be operating on that assumption. I then reeled off a starter list of countries - UK, France, Germany, Israel, Russia, China, NK. I’ve made this statement here, too.
He smiled and essentially said “pretty much”. He also opined that just about any decent hacker could probably have gotten into that system.
Re Hil’s “open” server:
Hillary was obviously an idiot concerning things electronic, and well-known for brushing away opinions she didn’t want to hear. Still, it’s hard to believe any reasonably competent IT guy wouldn’t have known the danger and at least mentioned it to her.
The conclusion I had previously drawn was that her motivation was secrecy for Clinton Foundation doings. But I may have missed this: an open door subscription to US info might have been part of the deal—a subscription provided as part of her influence peddling services.