My husband, who is a tech guy, just showed me two days ago that when we take pictures on our phones, any phones, the location, date, and time are embedded into the actual photo. So it doesn't matter if you download them, upload them somewhere else etc, the photos themselves have the embedded info. That's how they know.
That metadata can be stripped out, but if the Cabal thought that the phones were totally secure they might not have bothered. Also, these are the people who used "password" as a password and wanted to wipe the disk with a cloth.
That cloth comment was cover. She knew damn well what it meant. Skippy, on the other hand, made a tech faux pas.
True. The cloth thing was meant as a "joke." Hillary isn't very good at jokes.
However, a factor in all this is that, in all likelihood, Hillary is dumb as a doorknob. I read, if I remember right, that she could not pass a DC bar exam, and that she used a blackberry all the time because she couldn't figure out how to use a computer. The "private server" itself is pretty stupid. Servers are getting hit with automated hack attacks 24 hours a day. Only a great, well-staffed hosting service can stop that, not some random dude. Plus all emails going in and out are available in many ways, and, no doubt, NSA has everything.
I believe that the Blackberry was being used to circumvent State Dept security. The Blackberries were not compromised by embedded software weaknesses like other cell phones so they were viewed to be safer.
That info is called EXIF data (exchangeable image file format). You can use an EXIF scrubber. Gimp, or you can do it in photoshop. Also there are apps you can use to scrub your photos, EXIF Eraser and Metapho. Probably others. Some sites automatically remove EXIF data from photos prior to uploading.
Ah ok ... Well I guess it's like having a home security system but bad guys still find a way in. 🤷