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Cuomo's Infosec Might Not Protect Him from Latest Scandals
- samizdis 6y agoThis is long, but a good read, and two things stand out for me as priceless. On "air-gapping" yourself in a command chain: > For more than a decade, Cuomo has adhered to the maxim of his predecessor, Eliot Spitzer, who counseled: “Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an email.” On lying: > As journalist Masha Gessen, writing about President Donald Trump, another son of Queens, pointed out in their book “Surviving Autocracy,” there is a category of lie not intended to persuade or deceive. “It is the power lie, or the bully lie,” they wrote. “It is the lie of the bigger kid who took your hat and is wearing it—while denying that he took it. There is no defense against this lie because the point of the lie is to assert power, to show ‘I can say what I want when I want to.’”