Hillary Clinton, a failed presidential candidate, will now also be a failed cybersecurity expert. Yes, it’s the very same Hillary Clinton that had her corruption exposed by keeping personal emails, as well as emails marked ‘secret’ and ‘top secret’, on an unsecured server.
She didn’t get the presidency, but at least she scored a new gig. In October, she will make a keynote speech at a cybersecurity event hosted by FireEye, a publicly traded cybersecurity company in California. Afterwards, Hillary and FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia will engage in a Q&A discussion on the “geopolitical landscape and its implications for global cyber security today.”
Unsurprisingly, except to FireEye’s leadership, the announcement has been met with much amusement, laughter, and ridicule. A Twitter user named Carpe Donktum, who mostly engages in political sarcasm and humor wrote that, “[p]eople are going to pay between $795 and $2000 to listen to a presentation(mostly coughing) from a person who was hacked by everyone on Earth.”
While running for president, Hillary initially denied having an unsecured server, and then proceeded to delete thousands of emails using a system cleaner called BleachBit when federal officials were investigating her. Thus, if foreign intelligence agencies hacked into her server before the investigation, the US government and intelligence officials would never know exactly what type of information they gained. In other words, it’s possible that China, Russia, or Iran had a better look at her emails than fellow Americans ever will.
Former NSA Director Michael Hayden said that he “would lose all respect for a whole bunch of foreign intelligence agencies if they weren’t sitting back, paging through the emails.”
During her campaign, Hillary “innocently” joked about deleting her emails. “What? Like with a cloth or something? I don’t know how it works digitally at all,” she said. It looks like this joke and the ensuing ridicule will last longer than some of her emails.
Perhaps she should also consider becoming a comedian.
American Post 