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This is easy when you work in an office every day at the same location for your job. As Secretary of State travelling all of the time around the world this isn'
by res0nat0r 11y ago
This is easy when you work in an office every day at the same location for your job. As Secretary of State travelling all of the time around the world this isn't realistic.
- Someone1234 11y agoThe SCIF is a fixed location, your point doesn't make sense/doesn't apply here. Nobody was stopping her from using a standard Blackberry outside of that facility (and she was, according to the article).
- batbomb 11y agoJust because it's a fixed location doesn't mean employees in that fixed locations should be fixtures.
- Someone1234 11y agoThen deploy RJ-45 into conference rooms and give staff laptops without WiFi. That maintains operational security and allows people to move around.
- vonmoltke 11y agoActually, the usual approach to information security in a SAPF/SCIF is that computing resources are fixtures.
- WizardlySquid 11y agoThe entire point of a SCIF is that it is a very secure fixed location where the intelligence community can make sure people don't say steal documents, listen in or look at secret documents behind another person's shoulder.
- talmand 11y agoImagine all the previous people in that position that were incapable of properly doing their jobs because they had no Blackberry in which to receive secured information.
- inopinatus 11y agoIt says in the article that Condaleeza Rice + staff were authorized for BB use whilst SecState, but the grant of that was withdrawn for Clinton.
- talmand 11y agoAs others have said in an attempt to refute my comment, times change.
- Someone1234 11y agoIt wasn't withdrawn for Clinton, it was withdrawn for the devices themselves. The NSA decided the potential consequences for a baseband compromise within a SCIF was too high risk. Honestly I suspect their policy is "no wireless devices within the SCIF period." From wireless keyboards, to cellphones, to WiFi, and beyond. The black phone might be authorised but I suspect that is due to operational importance (e.g. calls vital to national security).
- eanzenberg 11y agoAnd John Kerry was given a gov't BB as secretary of state. https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2015/09/30/john-kerry-sometimes-uses-private-mail-account-for-state-department-business-official-says/DmZz3PBxGgoUtOlREsuLhL/story.html https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2015/09/30/john-kerr...
- karlshea 11y agoThe world is a different place now than it was when those people were in that position, it's hardly a good comparison. Everything moves faster today and the Secretary of State should be able to along with it. Would you be able to be good at your job if you were only able to check email once a day? I sure couldn't, but 15 years ago that's how often I checked it.
- talmand 11y agoI could do my job quite well if I had a staff that could check it for me at the location dictated by security and then inform me over secure channels of anything that required my attention.
- MrMullen 11y agoThen get her a laptop and she can use that all the time. Then train her how to use the laptop so she does not have use other devices.
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- mywittyname 11y agoThe issue is that the NSA didn't want to deal with managing remote devices. So the laptop would be no better than a BB.