Email is by its very nature insecure. (A smart guy once said: "Don't write what you could phone, don't phone what you could say face to face. Don't say face to face what you could nod, don't nod what you could wink. And wink only if you need to.")

Potentially a private email server could be far more secure than government email servers. Gov email servers are a joke, partly for the swiss cheese full of holes Windows operating system and partly for bad maintenance. It's just that Hillary and her staff were dumber than a bunch of rocks when it came to the technology ...

Having said that, we've just a got a really insecure internet, it is attack-rich and defense-poor. It's a bit like the Civil War where defensive strategy had not kept up with offensive weaponry.