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Audit-ability is essential to accountability is essential to effective government -- in our case, a democracy (well, ok, a republic). Failure to provide for th
by pasbesoin 11y ago
Audit-ability is essential to accountability is essential to effective government -- in our case, a democracy (well, ok, a republic).
Failure to provide for this should be considered outright failure in one's job. Failure to serve a fundamental tenant of our form of government.
To the extent it is define as a crime by our laws, it should be fully prosecuted.
In the private sector, I've cleaned up far too many ill-defined, ill-documented messes. Private or public, these things end up being and serving gross dereliction of duty. I've seen it over and over.
- smileysteve 10y agoThe counter perspective to this is that Hillary's privately managed server has better audit-ability (and could be interpreted to higher security standards) than government IT. The big "flaw" that I see in this "crisis" is the assumption that government servers (which have knowingly and publicly been hacked: OPM - or have leaks: Snowden) are somehow more secure than a given private server. And we can all probably find both a government and private website that doesn't use TLS/SSL, SPF, or authenticated SMTP.
- pasbesoin 10y agoThank you. I, for one, don't assume government server configuration and management is necessarily better. Another thing that bothers me about Clinton, is that years after Manning's leaks (which I do not condemn, personally), word was/is that State's document / information systems situation is as messed up and deficient as ever. They had a "big problem", by their own definition and rhetoric. Yet, years later -- years under her watch -- apparently nothing substantial has been fixed. (I may be wrong on this, but it's the latest that I recall reading on the matter.)