Isn’t this quite ironic?
Via WaPo:
“I myself am not the most tech-savvy person,” Hillary Clinton wrote in “Hard Choices,” her 2014 memoir of her years as secretary of state. “But I understood that new technologies would reshape how we practiced diplomacy and development.”
Clinton is now under fire for using her personal e-mail account nearly exclusively in the course of her official duties as secretary of state, as first reported by the New York Times. In the memoir, she includes a chapter titled “21st-Century Statecraft: Digital Diplomacy in a Networked World,” emphasizing how communications technology can help activists avoid persecution from repressive regimes and spur economic growth in developing nations. However, she also warns of the security risks of electronic communications, the lengths to which State Department communications were a target of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, and how she worked under “strict security precautions” to protect official information:
“We’d also seen the darker side of the digital revolution. The same qualities that made the internet a force for unprecedented progress — in its openness, its leveling effect, its reach and speed — also enabled wrongdoing on an unprecedented scale. It’s well known that the internet is a source for nearly as much misinformation as information, but that’s just the beginning. Terrorists and extremist groups use the internet to incite hate, recruit members, and plot and carry out attacks. Human traffickers lure new victims into modern-day slavery. Child pornographers exploit children. Hackers break into financial institutions, retailers, cell phone networks, and personal email accounts. Criminal gangs as well as nations are building offensive cyber warfare and industrial espionage capabilities. Critical infrastructure like power grids and air traffic control systems are increasingly vulnerable to cyber attack.”