Episode Details

What happens when a Secretary of State decides to self-host their email from a suburban basement? This episode takes a deep technical dive into Hillary Clinton's infamous private email server — the refurbished Dell PowerEdge 2950 running Microsoft Exchange 2010, the part-time IT staff, the USB drive backups, and the brutal spam deliverability problems that plague any self-hosting attempt. We strip away the politics and the 2016 election analysis to focus on what was actually sitting in that Chappaqua basement: the hardware, the software, the security gaps, and what the whole disaster teaches us about the gap between perceived privacy and actual security.