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by wrong_variable 3677 days ago
oh my god, this is depressing sad.

She could have hired a team of machine learning grad students to build her a personalized spam filter.

but she went with the cheapest option.

this is going to keep me upset for a while.
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salgernon 3677 days ago
"She" did nothing of the sort. She told someone she wanted her email available. They said, ok, we'll just host it ourselves. "Whatever, I want my daily suduko and make sure I stop getting those damn linked-in spams". "Ok boss".

Seriously, how could anyone really believe she specc'd this out herself? Her staff probably threw it together as a MVP with the full intention of revisiting the implementation "really soon".

And then they lost interest.

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stillusingvb6 3677 days ago
She asked and they gave her options she didn't like and then worked around it. Big difference
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unlinker 3677 days ago
That's implying she understood the implications.
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stillusingvb6 3677 days ago
She cheered imprisonment of whistleblowers, citing sanctity of classified info. Source: "Hillary Clinton on the Sanctity of Protecting Classified Information"

Best quote: “I think that in an age where so much information is flying through cyberspace, we all have to be aware of the fact that some information which is sensitive, which does affect the security of individuals and relationships, deserves to be protected and we will continue to take necessary steps to do so,” Clinton said

She knew what she was doing. This is outrageous.

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tempestn 3677 days ago
> She could have hired a team of machine learning grad students to build her a personalized spam filter.

Or instead of reinventing the wheel, installed an existing spam detection product like SpamAssassin on the email server.

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blhack 3677 days ago
Or, truly the craziest of possible scenarios: simply followed the instructions given to her by the people administering her access to the government's IT infrastructure.
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tempestn 3676 days ago
I don't disagree with you. Just seemed like we were getting into the bizarre talking about teams of grad students to create something that already existed, unless I just didn't detect the sarcasm.
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