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Home Front: Politix
Hillary bought her Blackberries off eBay
2016-09-08
"While serving as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton bought her BlackBerrys off eBay -- since she preferred older models that the smartphone company had long retired -- a top Republican on Capitol Hill revealed.

"I don't want to get into this too much, but part of what was happening with the secretary of state was, she was acquiring technology that wasn't even supported by BlackBerry," House Oversight Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz told a forum in DC on Wednesday, according to the Washington Examiner.

"You couldn't buy it. She was actually buying this stuff off of eBay because somebody was selling their old machine. That's what she liked, so she did. It creates this huge vulnerability. And it’s unnecessary," Chaffetz added in an appearance at the American Enterprise Institute.

Chaffetz's remarks come a week after the FBI released notes from its interview of Clinton, part of its investigation into her private email server.

The FBI notes revealed Clinton had 13 BlackBerry devices over the course of her four years as America's top diplomat. Clinton frequently lost or misplaced her smartphone, the notes said. And Bill Clinton aide Justin Cooper destroyed two old devices with a hammer."
Posted by:Blossom Unains5562

#7  Harder to trace if you're using it as a "burn-phone"?
Posted by: Pappy   2016-09-08 15:53  

#6  A women with 150 million $ in the bank buys blackberry on eBay?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-09-08 12:25  

#5  it would be even more amusing if she sold her used blackberries on eBay (or even better on Craig's List)
Posted by: lord garth   2016-09-08 11:56  

#4  I mean, she admitted she made a mistake with the email server. She tries to make light of it but it was an extremely serious blunder. It's bad enough that she's so damn crooked but she's really, really stupid too.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2016-09-08 10:20  

#3  So any security vulnerabilities that BlackBerry fixed in later models were still there on the older models. Felony stupid.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2016-09-08 10:17  

#2  By buying 'seconds' the number of units lost and left behind didn't get recorded through acquisition channels. Probably filed under 'incidental office supplies' by her IT support team.

Maybe because the Iranian was maintaining an old exploit?
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-09-08 09:18  

#1  So she acquired sensitive hardware from parties unknown.

What are the odds that any of these devices were subtly modified for spying at the hardware level and intentionally sold to the US Secretary of State?

Did the NSA check these devices? Did they verify that all custom chips were authentic, transistor for transistor?

Nuts!

And Bill Clinton aide Justin Cooper destroyed two old devices with a hammer.

Flash memory is very robust. He should have tossed the stuff into a furnace.

Nuts, too!

Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2016-09-08 02:12  

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