I had a friend in college who's father was in the reserves as a photographer or something along those lines (I never got the full job description from him but I know he was issued a really nice camera and he was noncom). He was issued a laptop locked down like that and apparently got in some serious trouble when my friend hacked into it to fix a bluescreen for him. The only way they found out is that he added a boot message to the system.
If the bad guys can get physical access to a computer all security measures are mute. The government knows this and they know that they can't guarantee that the bad guys won't get physical access with telecommuters. -----Original Message----- From: Erika L. Rich [mailto:elr...@ruwebby.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 10:10 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Bruce, LRSScout... Awww. Now come on peeps. You guys are all far more visionary than that. I know for a fact that you can be issue a desktop (or laptop), locked down to use ONLY stuff that that company has installed has installed, not allow you to attach anything to it that they don't approve, and secure it. AND make sure you can only access the internet and any files thru THEIR locked down VPN. Hubby works for a big 5 insurance company and that's how he works. You can't even attach a thumb-drive to a usb port, or a mouse unless the company IT dept sets it up. Not even a printer. Nothing. Needless to say the internet is also locked down. He's lucky he can plug in a power supply. So this scenario: "all with varied levels of home networking equipment (wireless, DSL, ethernet over power, etc). Add to that the fact that half of them let their kids play games on their computers at night." Not even a factor. Updates, patches, upgrades? All done ONLY thru the company's VPN of course. I'm serious. We had to have a special router just to connect the thing. So if an insurance company has the knowledge, power and resources, ... surely the government can? On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Chris Stoner <csto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well technologically it's feasible to have a secure connection between > > my home and Iraq, that much certainly is true. The part that I think > > you are not considering is that the government wouldn't have control > > over our workstations. > > Yes, physical security is just as important as electronic security. > Imagine 50,000 "work at home" military resources scattered across the > US, all with varied levels of home networking equipment (wireless, > DSL, ethernet over power, etc). Add to that the fact that half of > them let their kids play games on their computers at night. > > Yikes. > > -Cameron > > .. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:326983 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
