Re: [luv-talk] Basics of smartphone security

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. [0] though probably only management, not the plebes.