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NSA Suggested Clinton Use A $4,750 Windows CE PDA (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes from an article on Ars Technica: When former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was pushing to get a waiver allowing her to use a BlackBerry like President Barack Obama back in 2009, the National Security Agency had a very short list of devices approved for classified communications. The General Dynamics' Sectera Edge and L3 Communications' Guardian were the two devices built for the Secure Mobile Environment Portable Electronic Device (SME PED) program. They were the only devices anyone in government without an explicit security waver (like the one the president got, along with his souped-up BlackBerry 8830) could use until as recently as last year to get mobile access to top secret encrypted calls and secure e-mail. At the time Clinton was asking for a phone, only the Sectera Edge was available (the Guardian was running behind in development) and it required multiple server-side and phone-side e-mail additions, desktop synchronization software, and other supporting products. The "Executive Kit" version of the Edge, priced for government purchase at $4,750, included: Type 1 Sectera Edge (GSM or CDMA) device plus: Executive Carry Case, Leather Holster Travel Charger, Red/Black USB Cables, Vehicle Charger, Earbud, Stylus 10-pack, microSD Card with User Manual, Spare Battery, Privacy Shield 4-pack, Antivirus Software, Apriva Email Client and Perpetual Rights fee and Office Suite for Windows CE.
Perhaps the requirements are based on campaign contributions from the seller?
In this case, $4,750 is an utterly trivial amount to secure the communications of a secretary of state. It's a fraction of the price of a Vertu phone.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
the edge was so expensive because it's basically two phones jammed in one shell - one that never touches an unsecure network or unsigned anything and another that's just a phone.
Literally the majority of the subsystems are physically separated. Easiest and dumbest way to do it. That's why the thing was so heavy and unwieldy
She had her personal server already set up before this whole thing with the NSA.
The personal email server was clearly about avoiding FOIA requests and not a reaction to the NSA refusing to give her an expensive device.
I'd post links in support of my claims, but last time I posted about Hillary and email with lots of references, I got moderated Troll. So I'll just post it anonymously without references.
When you order 87 toilet seats that conform to the inside of a B2, you have to pay for all the tooling required to make the toilet. Which is usually amortized over hundreds of thousands of units.
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