[josho]

Ok. What if you were a high level employee that could force change and you still circumvented the systems in place to protect information systems. And while you went around the secure systems you left your server unpatched and open to compromise from competitors.

[geofft]

It's pretty hard for a high-level employee to force change in a bureaucracy the size of the federal government. Remember healthcare.gov - if the CEO launches the project that will define his legacy, and the infrastructure melts down on the first day, you think some other executive can get the email systems fixed?

And in any case, fixing the email systems for an organization this big is a messy project. There are countless employees who have the existing system set up and have workflows depending on it. There's special handling of classified information, records-keeping, and so forth. All of this will break, somehow, when you try to migrate it. I'm sure Hillary could have chosen to be the meddling exec who demands an IT overhaul to suit her needs if she really wanted to prioritize that, but it does not actually seem like that would have been better for America. (Or for her public perception, for that matter.)