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What I don't understand is the apparent oxymoron: Classified Emails. Email is horribly insecure. Why would anyone use it to exchange classified documents?
by milesf 10y ago
What I don't understand is the apparent oxymoron: Classified Emails.
Email is horribly insecure. Why would anyone use it to exchange classified documents?
- Jtsummers 10y agoEncryption, or, like the US DoD, a separate network (NIPRNET for non-secret, SIPRNET for secret). But yeah, you wouldn't or shouldn't be using typical email systems for classified communications, certainly not systems outside of your security's control.
- GunboatDiplomat 10y agoYou're not supposed to unless you're on a secure network, i.e. SIPRnet, etc.
- elicash 10y agoClassification can be a marker, but it's ALSO a process where lots of different parts of government who often disagree debate back and forth whether something gets classified. And once they decided, those designations continue to change.
- snowwrestler 10y agoHTTP is insecure and yet here are a bunch of classified documents: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/06/04/us/document-cyber-surveillance-documents.html http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/06/04/us/document-cy... My point being: sometimes information is simultaneously publicly available and highly classified.