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September 8, 2015

Snowden: "Ridiculous" to Claim Hillary Clinton's Server More Secure 
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Meanwhile. National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has
criticized Clinton's exclusive reliance on a private email server during
her tenure as secretary of state, saying the idea her server was more
secure than government channels is "completely ridiculous."

Edward Snowden: "If an ordinary worker at the State Department or the
Central Intelligence Agency, or anything like that, were sending details
about the security of embassies, which is alleged to be in her emails,
meetings with private government officials, foreign government
officials, and the statements that were made to them in confidence over
unclassified email systems, they would not only lose their job and lose
their clearance, they would very likely face prosecution. ... When the
unclassified systems of the United States government, which has a
full-time information security staff, regularly get hacked, the idea
that someone keeping a private server in the renovated bathroom of a
server farm in Colorado is more secure is completely ridiculous."

Edward Snowden speaking in an interview with Al Jazeera. On Saturday,
Snowden was awarded the Bjornson Prize for freedom of speech by the
Norwegian Academy of Literature and Freedom of Expression.

 

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