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> "Don't Travel With Work Data" Why would I value my personal data any less than my work data? So what this rally means is: "Don't Travel With Any Data". And

> "Don't Travel With Work Data" Why would I value my personal data any less than my work data? So what this rally means is: "Don't Travel With Any Data". And knowing that they only need to plug an infected USB device into your PC/phone/tablet to infect the latter irrevocably, the situation can now be summed up as: "Don't Travel With Any Data Or Any Hardware". Now what does that say about the sate of a country?

mstade 9y ago
Recall that these are instructions to employees – the company's first obligation is to protect the company, not the employees. Wiping work data is simply a means of limiting liability. Should sensitive data leak out due to a laptop getting seized at the border that's a lot more serious to the company than if your nudes were stolen.
- cmrdporcupine 9y ago
  Contrast this with my employer's advice: cooperate fully with the authorities, our lawyers can and will defend the company, we are more concerned about your safety. Telling people to work travel and then telling them to not bring work data seems like you should have told them not to travel at all?
  - rapind 9y ago
    Retracted. Misread the article. Apologies.
    - cmrdporcupine 9y ago
      I think you're being deliberately obtuse and argumentative. I never mentioned personal time travel. The context is an article telling people not to bring work data with them when traveling for work/professional functions. If you're traveling for work, and your company can't guarantee your safe and reasonably comfortable travel to that destination in a work capacity -- they should recommend you not go.
      - rapind 9y ago
        Agreed, they shouldn't be asking them to go in a work capacity. I misunderstood your objection as them not having a right to ask their employees to remove data before personal travel.
        cmrdporcupine 9y ago
        Sorry I'd delete and edit my comment but it's too late now.
  - ajdlinux 9y ago
    I don't think Basecamp's advice is telling people not to cooperate fully with authorities for the sake of your safety - it's merely noting that there's a significant risk of loss of control of valuable or sensitive commercial information in such interactions that can be mitigated.
Markoff 9y ago
Pff, next thing you know there will be terminal right next to immigration worker and they will just let you sign in to your online accounts to check it even without hardware and deny you entry if you don't comply, that's where it's heading in paranoid scared US. I will rather have terrorist occasionally killing few people (still nothing compared to drunken weekend drivers or cancer, but those are apparently not worth attention) than sacrificing my privacy.

mstade 9y ago

Recall that these are instructions to employees – the company's first obligation is to protect the company, not the employees. Wiping work data is simply a means of limiting liability. Should sensitive data leak out due to a laptop getting seized at the border that's a lot more serious to the company than if your nudes were stolen.

cmrdporcupine 9y ago
Contrast this with my employer's advice: cooperate fully with the authorities, our lawyers can and will defend the company, we are more concerned about your safety. Telling people to work travel and then telling them to not bring work data seems like you should have told them not to travel at all?
- rapind 9y ago
  Retracted. Misread the article. Apologies.
  - cmrdporcupine 9y ago
    I think you're being deliberately obtuse and argumentative. I never mentioned personal time travel. The context is an article telling people not to bring work data with them when traveling for work/professional functions. If you're traveling for work, and your company can't guarantee your safe and reasonably comfortable travel to that destination in a work capacity -- they should recommend you not go.
    - rapind 9y ago
      Agreed, they shouldn't be asking them to go in a work capacity. I misunderstood your objection as them not having a right to ask their employees to remove data before personal travel.
      - cmrdporcupine 9y ago
        Sorry I'd delete and edit my comment but it's too late now.
- ajdlinux 9y ago
  I don't think Basecamp's advice is telling people not to cooperate fully with authorities for the sake of your safety - it's merely noting that there's a significant risk of loss of control of valuable or sensitive commercial information in such interactions that can be mitigated.

Markoff 9y ago

Pff, next thing you know there will be terminal right next to immigration worker and they will just let you sign in to your online accounts to check it even without hardware and deny you entry if you don't comply, that's where it's heading in paranoid scared US. I will rather have terrorist occasionally killing few people (still nothing compared to drunken weekend drivers or cancer, but those are apparently not worth attention) than sacrificing my privacy.