On 29 July 2013 10:30, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Rick Moen wrote:
A: The most-security-aware organizations are taking these threats very seriously. They're destroying phones after taking them to hostile areas with known malicious carriers
IIRC for the beijing olympic games, BHP gave their people[0] shiny new thinkpads to take to China, instead of taking their existing corporate laptops. I heard ASIO (WTF? Not ASIS or DFAT?) told them to expect Chinese intelligence to take laptops out of hotel safes, dd them, then put them back. I don't think they do it for normal visits to e.g. Surinam and South Africa, tho.
Also think of: http://xkcd.com/538/ You might think you are protected by having all your files encrypted, then the foreign country demands you give them your decryption key, with threats of jail if you don't. I wouldn't take any sensitive information on computer/phone/tablet overseas, even encrypted, unless I absolutely had to. Also consider that a hostile entity might be able to get cached browser information, find out what Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc, accounts you have, then coerce you to log into them. -- Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>