{"id":183923,"date":"2012-10-04T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/10\/04\/eric-falkensteins-rule-suggests-that-janet-napolitano-is-corrupt\/"},"modified":"2012-10-04T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T03:50:00","slug":"eric-falkensteins-rule-suggests-that-janet-napolitano-is-corrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/10\/04\/eric-falkensteins-rule-suggests-that-janet-napolitano-is-corrupt\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Falkenstein&#8217;s Rule Suggests that Janet Napolitano is Corrupt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have discovered that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/homeland-security-secretary-janet-napolitano-email-article-1.1170915\">Janet Napolitano has eschewed email as a matter of policy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The woman in charge of U.S efforts to make email secure doesn\u2019t use it herself.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday copped to keeping her own communications off the grid.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI don\u2019t have any of my own accounts,\u201d she told a cybersecurity conference hosted by National Journal. \u201cI\u2019m very secure.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Asked if her reasons for sticking to other forms of communication had to do with concerns about email security, she hedged and said she avoids email for \u201ca whole host of reasons.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have, on a number of occasions used the rule of thumb that people who do not are note to be funded:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">As Eric Falkenstein <a href=\"http:\/\/falkenblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/madoff-intimidates-regulators-and-risk.html\">observes<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: #000099;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">People who meticulously avoid email should not be trusted<\/span>, because it is simply too calculating, as if <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">they know they are regularly committing crimes<\/span>. A phone conversation can always be disavowed, you just say you were talking about last weekend&#8217;s bar mitzvah. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I applied this to Hank Paulson, and it seems to me that it&#8217;s only fair to apply it to Ms. Napolitano as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have discovered that Janet Napolitano has eschewed email as a matter of policy: The woman in charge of U.S efforts to make email secure doesn\u2019t use it herself.Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday copped to keeping her own communications off the grid.\u201cI don\u2019t have any of my own accounts,\u201d she told &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}