Janet Napolitano: Internet users need to practice good 'cyber-hygiene'

washington examiner ^ | January 24, 2013 | 10:52 am | Modified: January 24, 2013 at 11:00 am | Charlie Spiering

[BenLurkin]

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned internet users at the Wilson Center this morning that cyberspace was becoming more dangerous as more and more Americans go online.

“Every individual on the net is vulner – is a potential, uh, opening,” Napolitano stated, adding that the internet was a “great thing.”

“We just want to make sure that everyone remains safe and free,” she continued. “So that requires everyone to take some responsibility, have good cyber-habits, make sure we use the phrase ‘Stop, think, connect.’”

[BenLurkin]

Does anyone have an idea of what she is saying? I can't make any sense out of it,

[MetaThought]

Basic stuff I suppose. Like don’t click on links in emails, especially those purporting to be from your bank ....

[listenhillary]

www.hidemyass.com/

[albie]

Shut up you fat ass lesbian!

[Darksheare]

Well, turn her words 180 from what she’s saying and you’ll have her intentions at least.
In other words, they’re going to restrict the internet somehow.
All in the name of ‘freedom’ as defined by liberals.

Of course, they could ensure the non-use of the internet by adding an image of Wacky Janet wearing a horse collar at fetishfest to every webpage and social media on the interent.
Instant crash.

[VRWCarea51]

Perhpas if she spent less time worring about what American Citizens are doing and more time PROTECTING our Southern Border this country would be a much safer place...

[CGASMIA68]

Does anyone have an idea of what she is saying?

Yup its code for,”Stand Bye were going to F with the internet ASAP”

[svcw]

Oh, good. I thought I was drunk and hadn’t even had a pint.
She never makes sense but this is even more convoluted.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Meanwhile, the feral government is logging every single thing you do on a phone or the Interwebs.

[mountainlion]

They practice Orwellian New Speak so much that the can no longer make sense to the general population.

[ColdOne]

to have her name in the same sentence as ‘good cyber hygiene’ is highly disturbing.

[Adder]

“So that requires everyone to take some responsibility, have good cyber-habits, make sure we use the phrase ‘Stop, think, connect.’”

“Oh and wash your hands frequentlywhile humming ‘Happy Birthday’ over and over”

[shoff]

I think she means you should go to your local preschool for a free supply of government issued computer condoms before surfing porn.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Does anyone have an idea of what she is saying? I can't make any sense out of it,"

I believe if you parse her statements you will find everything she says boils down to "The Government needs total control of ___________ to keep you safe."

[AngelesCrestHighway]

“Shut up you fat ass lesbian!”...

Well said!...

[notaliberal]

These frickin communists………..!

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Napolitano added that it was most important to push internet users, especially young children to practice what she described as “good cyber-hygiene.”

Sounds like good advice. I keep a bottle of hand sanitizer handy for occasions where cyber-hygiene is necessary -- e.g. after reading articles about Obama speeches, or Clinton "testifying" on Benghazi. The sanitizer is 70% alcohol. Sometimes, I think it would work better better if taken internally. I'm thinking of keeping a dropper bottle of eye wash handy -- e.g. for when they show pictures of Clinton testifying, or (in extremis) when some FR sadist posts pictures of Helen Thomas.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: "Does anyone have an idea of what she is saying? I can't make any sense out of it"

She's leading up to Obama's long-time buddy Cass Sunstein's feeeeeeeelings about (Napolitano's words) "everyone [should] take some responsibility, have good cyber-habits, make sure we use the phrase ‘Stop, think, connect'";

to wit, stop thinking and connect to Free Republic's opponents.

Here's how President Obama's head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and author of "Repulblic.com," Cass Sunstein, describes FreeRepublic.com as "group polarization," where people segregate themselves so effectively online with other like-minded thinkers that they create an echo chamber where the group's worst and most malevolent opinions get reinforced and strengthened. "We might want to consider," Sunstein startlingly told the Times recently, "the possibility of ways of requiring or encouraging sites to link to opposing viewpoints."

He recently left the Administration to return to elite universities where he is an employee.

[LadyBuck]

If we’re so irrelevant, why bother blogging about it in such pathetic, whiney detail?

Yeah, they know, and they are watching.

so...FUBO...for another 4.

Sucks to be us.

[Iron Munro]

Good people die every day while slugs like this slither on and on.