Emails seem like a big risk, with so much data even if you are trying to do everything right you have to handle everything perfectly or it just gives other people more stuff against you. I feel like the recent leaks are good examples of that
Furthermore, if you have an entire conversation, its much easier to cherry pick specific parts to make the person look however you want them to look.
If you're a big enough target, having lots of conversations is much worse than having none, because you will make a mistake, or something will be misinterpreted, either accidentally or willfully.
Ya, I don't want to get into a political debate at all but a friend on Facebook said Clinton's emails have "pretty much proof that she murdered one of her staffers". Turns out that if you give people 60,000 emails and they will find proof for everything.
On which note, I'm a bit amazed by people I see insist that "there's nothing objectionable in Hillary's emails".
Specific content aside, it would downright miraculous for 60k emails to not include something embarrassing to someone, and setting an expectation for that just commits us to lying or condemning anyone who uses email.
