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I wonder how that's going to work for government security agencies. I remember at one point touring the Pentagon (many years ago) and them saying how they expli
by tibbon 5y ago
I wonder how that's going to work for government security agencies. I remember at one point touring the Pentagon (many years ago) and them saying how they explicitly disallowed devices with cameras in certain areas. No idea if that's changed, but I could see Microsoft needing to have a separate security-version of the OS, or losing a lot of government clients.
- nonameiguess 5y agoIt hasn't changed, and while it may not be common in high-security, but unclassified facilities, in classified facilities you're not allowed to even bring in any sort of recording devices, audio or video, nor anything radio-enabled. Exceptions are made for secure teleconferencing, obviously, but that is never enabled in a general-purpose computer. To participate in a meeting remotely, you either need to use a secure phone or a single-purpose teleconferencing device in a dedicated meeting room, not a video and voice recorder at your personal workstation. Disabling and removing any recording capability at the hardware level is a requirement before you can even bring a laptop into the facility. Microsoft is well aware of this, and whatever this requirement actually is will definitely not apply to enterprise versions of Windows for this reason. It is possible to get some exceptions to policy. My wife has hearing aids with radio capability, for instance. But they needed to be audited, and she had to prove they were 1) medically necessary for her job, and 2) the radio protocol only worked with the vendor's own devices and couldn't call out to something like a Bluetooth or WiFi receiver.