While President Obama has appealed to the technology crowd with appearances on Reddit and Google+, other members of his administration aren’t quite so technologically inclined — in fact, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has admitted that she doesn’t even use email. Napolitano was recently asked about her security practices during a cybersecurity summit co-hosted by the National Journal, to which she replied, “Don’t laugh, but I just don’t use e-mail at all.” And as the New York Daily News reports, Napolitano’s predecessor Michael Chertoff also stayed away from email, forgoing it during his entire tenure. While it may seem a strange decision for the head of a department whose mission involves, among other things, to “safeguard and secure cyberspace,” Napolitano says that not having an email account means that she is “very secure.”
US Secretary of Homeland Security says ‘I just don’t use e-mail at all’
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