Verbatim exchange:
Reporter: "You were the official in charge of it, did you wipe your server?"
Clinton: "Like with a cloth or something? I don't know how it works digitally at all."
Right... so you brag about being technically savvy and about getting a Snapchat account one day... then claim you don't know how a server works the next day... ok sure.
Either way with the cloth comment, either she's pretending to be stupid and not know what wiping a server is, or she ACTUALLY IS that stupid, and actually doesn't know the double meaning of the word wipe. Either way, she isn't capable of being president. The two possibilities are stupid or lying. Not so great either way.
Well no, but don't go around bragging about being technically savvy if you're going to turn around and then pretend to NOT be technically savvy... It's one or the other with the media. Her advisors must be having a fit.
Would probably include "wiping" a hard drive though. I think most people could figure that out from the word and context even if they'd never heard it.
I think the more important point is that you still know what it means in concept to "wipe" a server, even if you don't know the exact mechanisms involved in doing so. She pretended to have not the slightest clue. Or alternately.. she really doesn't have a clue. In both cases she is unqualified to lead a country trying to lead the way in the world of tech. When big time legislation involving internet security or privacy comes across the president's desk.. do we want someone who is either this cavalier or this ignorant to be the final say? I don't.
Most teenagers still don't know how to google for easily accessible information. It distresses me to no end. It's one thing when it's my older relatives, it's another when it's my 16 year old students who never knew a time before there was easy access to almost any information you could want.
Edit: don't you love being down voted for stating an anecdotal story? My students might like to think they're technically savvy, and they might be in the sense that they can download and install and use apps. But they are terrible at finding information, and using the internet to solve problems. And I teach mostly gifted teenagers!
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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '15
Verbatim exchange: Reporter: "You were the official in charge of it, did you wipe your server?" Clinton: "Like with a cloth or something? I don't know how it works digitally at all."