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.

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Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>