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Here’s the Drastic Measure Janet Napolitano Took to Protect Her Own Online Privacy (Would You Do It Too?)

Oct. 1, 2012 12:08pm
Janet Napolitano Stays Secure Online by Not Using Email At All

Janet Napolitano (Photo: AP/Eduardo Verdugo)

There are many tips out there for protecting online privacy, but the head of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has one of her own that could be considered one of the simplest and most secure of them all. Unfortunately, few would choose to do it.

If you want to do as she does to stay secure, then don’t use email — “at all.” CNN reported Napolitano being described by some as a “Luddite” for choosing not to use email, but made the decision due to her sensitive position regarding national security. Here’s more from CNN on why she avoids one of the most mainstream forms of communication:

“For a whole host of reasons. So, I don’t have any of my own accounts and that, you know, I’m very secure,” Napolitano noted at a Washington conference about cyber security.

“Some would call me a Luddite but you know. But that’s my own personal choice and I’m very unique in that regard I suspect,” Napolitano added.

CNN reported Napolitano also discussing at the conference Congress’ CIPSA (the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act), which was passed in the House earlier this year but also had a threatened veto from the White House. CIPSA would provide the framework for private companies to report cybersecurity breaches to the government in an effort to better protect critical infrastructure. Napolitano also said an executive order, not yet viewed by President Barack Obama, is being drafted regarding security standards between public and private entities.

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(H/T: Gizmodo)

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  • F_This
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 2:22pm

    Everyone serving the dictator makes me want to puke. Get ready folks, there is going to be trouble after the election no matter who wins. If Obammy wins, fraud will be discovered and he will really run America into the ground financially, therefore we will be subject to takeover. If Romney wins, the blacks and the media will go insane with the racist claims, eventually causing mass riots. Like I said, either way, be prepared for it to get ugly. Who would have thought that one administration could destroy the strongest country in the world in only four years.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on October 1, 2012 at 4:42pm

      I bet she has one of those prepaid disposal phones to communicate with her girl friend or what ever you want to call it.

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    • desertspeaks
      Posted on October 1, 2012 at 6:58pm

      she doesn’t use email so there isn’t any record that can be viewed later at her trial for treason!!

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on October 1, 2012 at 7:31pm

      Look at her right hand – is she giving the Anerican public the finger? Sure looks that way. Thats what the Democrats think of the rest of us.

      OMG Nov 6, 2012

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on October 1, 2012 at 10:23pm

      How can you serve in Government and not use e-mail? This is BS.

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    • Obama_Forward_Over_The_Cliff
      Posted on October 2, 2012 at 1:54am

      Considering that the Obama Administration has stated that Americas “have no reasonable expectation of privacy”, perhaps we should just JAIL “lesbian” Janet Napolitano commie. No e-mail, no Internet, no cell phone … just a cell. It’d be a win-win situation.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on October 2, 2012 at 11:39am

      .
      I have a lot of words to describe Janet, but “Luddite” isn’t one of them.

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  • 00gabooga
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:56pm

    I wouldn’t say she’s a Luddite, but I WOULD say she’s a Kevin James look-a-like.

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    • DarkJello
      Posted on October 1, 2012 at 2:03pm

      That was a tad mean. Oh well.

      Not using email makes sense. It is almost all junk mail anyway.

      Shockingly, to my friends/fam, I have not used facebook, twitter, or texting in >2 years.

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    • Pontiac
      Posted on October 1, 2012 at 2:30pm

      [It is almost all junk mail anyway.]
      Well, if you broadcast your address like a fool, yeah. It’s not that she’s doing this for security reasons though, it’s to make it harder for her to be investigated or exposed for criminal acts.

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    • Capitalist Mama
      Posted on October 1, 2012 at 4:28pm

      Bingo Pontiac.

      She is doing this so there is NO record of her personally approving or denying anything. If something goes wrong, she can easily blame an aide.

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    • az11697
      Posted on October 1, 2012 at 4:51pm

      i think Kevin James might look better in a dress, not sure there.

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  • JQuentinEvermann
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:44pm

    She knows what is being done to get this information, and what it is used for, ergo she refuses to use it for fear the system she helped create will turn around and bite her in the ****.

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    • DAYWATCHER
      Posted on October 1, 2012 at 2:32pm

      Exactly! And we who exercise our freedom will someday be punished for typing our comments and thoughts.
      Just look at Darkjello post:

      (Shockingly, to my friends/fam, I have not used facebook, twitter, or texting in >2 year)

      So he has not used Facebook or text for over two years.

      How sad is it, to know in your heart that our nation has come to this. None of us should ever have to fear using Facebook or texting, or anything else.

      So when will the Gov’t start using this information against us? My guess is just as soon as the get that new computer center up and running in Utah? You know, the one that is so many times lager than our Federal Govt buildings in DC… or Congress .

      It is simply a mater of time before that shoe drops!

      I’m just saying………..

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    • DAYWATCHER
      Posted on October 1, 2012 at 2:42pm

      One other thing….At some point the “Thought Police” aka some federal governmental department will come after us… When they do, I for one will be ready. Just know I will not comply.

      I’m just saying…

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    • TheLeftMadeMeRight
      Posted on October 1, 2012 at 4:27pm

      Hmmm… Face book; An extensive online list of my most personal information complete with pictures of my family, friends, activities, associations, hobbies, likes and dislikes, politics, and with most users a minute by minute report on everything they do from letting out the cat to taking a crap…

      no thank you

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  • jackact
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:35pm

    One has to take the necessary steps when one’s best friend (Suzanne Barr) was fired for sexually intimidating make employees of the Homeland Security Dept.

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  • ronin_6
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:32pm

    The one decision I agree with.

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  • moreteaplease
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:24pm

    “Some would call me a Luddite but you know….”
    —————————————————————–
    Among other things..

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    • TRUMPETCALL
      Posted on October 1, 2012 at 2:39pm

      And a few other Titles come to mind, but decorum won’t allow me to list them here.

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  • taberphoto.com
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:23pm

    Another reason we need to educate ourselves in using encryption in our emails. It’s not as hard as a lot of people think it is. When ever you send an email, it’s like writing on the back of a postcard. When you encrypt it using a public key system, its like putting it in a sealed container and shipping it. No one can read it’s content except for the recipient that has the private key. Look at a book called Encryption for Dummies. It’s a good book to get started with. Also take a look at using Truecrypt to secure files and it even supports whole disk encryption. It’s open source and has been vetted. It’s better than nothing.

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    • Rowgue
      Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:35pm

      Or maybe just avoid sending sensitive information via e-mail. A much simpler and much more secure solution.

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    • ICanComment
      Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:49pm

      @taberphoto.com

      Well, as you said about TrueCrypt, “it’s better than nothing.”

      I’d say the same thing about email encryption. The trouble is that the people that I’d be most concerned about already have the computing power and talent to crack just about any mainstream encryption algorithm. If you know of a more formidable encryption method, I’m all ears, though. Then there’s the trouble that, as soon as you encrypt something, you immediately cease to blend in and draw attention to yourself.

      I guess encryption, if nothing else, adds that extra step they’d have to go through to read your email. There are other methods of hiding email content, but those rely more on obscurity.

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    • ICanComment
      Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:55pm

      @Rowge

      Sure, the best way is to not send anything sensitive.

      The trouble is, the people with whom you communicate via email may not exercise the same level of discretion. Most people don’t realize the level of scrutiny that’s quietly taking place, and even if you inform them, they brush you off thinking it can’t be true.

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    • Rowgue
      Posted on October 1, 2012 at 3:58pm

      The truth of the matter is that 99% of all emails are frivelous nonsense nobody cares about. And if you’re in a position where you actually posess information people want, then encryption isn’t going to help you.

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    • RedDawn2012
      Posted on October 3, 2012 at 5:51am

      I don’t trust ANY encryption software. Remember when PGP was so vaunted a few years ago as unbreakable, and then the feds grabbed it’s creator and made him give up the goods? You can bet that NSA has already got a backdoor into ALL encryption software. They don’t have to crack any codes … they already have the keys.

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  • smokeyridgerunner
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:15pm

    No! She is a lady ***.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:12pm

    More like a Trog-Luddite….

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  • sheik yermami
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:10pm

    She is part of a criminal conspiracy. Of course she is spooked and goes to any length to cover her trail.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:20pm

      she doesn’t use email or facebook or anything because she knows how easily accessible that information is, and the the government doesn’t need a warrant to get it. She knows if it’s like this on her watch, it will be like it on the next guy’s watch. She doesn’t want to leave an electronic trail. She probably makes people eat their memos to destroy them.

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:07pm

    She’s quite the looker. And notice her flipping the bird to the questioner. (In the above photo, for you from Rio Linda)

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  • Watermain
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:03pm

    Wait a minute…I missed the “accounts of my own”. So she just trolls around the web on someone else’s dime. How absolutely democrat of her.

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  • Watermain
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:00pm

    Some would also call her much worse than “Luddite”.

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:57pm

    She is lying. It may be under another identity……but she has an e-mail account.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:56pm

    Too bad Jan isn’t that concerned about securing our borders,of course her boss wants them wide open. Still Jan should have resigned in protest but that would require integrity of which she has none.

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  • Mr.Fitnah
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:46pm

    To bad , I think she would want some of those male enhancement products that end up in the spam folder.

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  • HuskerDave
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:44pm

    I think she’s afraid of what we’ll find when we are finally able to disclose what these evil, anti-constitutional administration officials have been up to. Avoiding an electronic trail might buy her a few more years of reprieve from prosecution, and by then perhaps people won’t care anymore.

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  • Female
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:36pm

    “So, I don’t have any of my own accounts ”

    Remember, she is in the world and supporter of such recent greats as the Adulterer in chief, who doesn’t know the meaning of “is” and the Addict or Absent in Chief, who can’t remember his HS years and nobody remembers him at college.

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  • Elena2010
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:35pm

    Pretty sad when the Secretary of Homeland Security feels insecure about using email! What does that say abt how effective she’s been in her job…

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  • BODYBAG
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:26pm

    Only a moron would advertise this to the entire world.
    She’s now a target rich environment just for spite.
    Stupid, but not surprising in this administration.
    Advice: Learn to keep your pie hole shut.

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  • paulwbrown
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:25pm

    I wonder if she doesn’t send emails as well as does not receive any emails. Hard to imagine how she can be an effective manager without any access to email. Wait, that just might be the answer as to why she is such a failed manager, she is woefully uninformed!

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:24pm

    She doesn’t wanna have to respond to future supeonas……….

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  • woodyee
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:17pm

    I use email as little as possible, because I want to be subject to as little gobblement intrusion as humanly possible…

    …probably all the more reason why Janet Napolitano doesn’t use email at all – plausible deniability.

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  • SingerGuy
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:17pm

    So if I post here and say that I have a high level of online security, does that immediately make me a liar? ;-)

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    • Female
      Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:40pm

      Not if you are using other peoples accounts and computers plus have done something to the screen to not send your picture to a data base. Just ask Jan, what you need to do or study corporate spying.

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  • The_Almighty_Creestof
    Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:15pm

    More likely, she just does not want to leave a paper trail of all the evil she has committed.

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