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"Don't take your laptop or phone into China" is a completely standard and unremarkable piece of security advice for anyone in our field. I'm not sure how it tie
by idlewords 3y ago
"Don't take your laptop or phone into China" is a completely standard and unremarkable piece of security advice for anyone in our field. I'm not sure how it ties into your point.
- ggm 3y agoI've been to China 7 times in the last 20 years and never been placed in any constraint of need here. No employer, or travel advisory has ever been placed on me or recommended to me. I was not issued a burner phone or laptop. Ever. One meeting I went to in Nepal, the attendee from a US company had a personal minder (with gun) and car. That's about as close as I've come to a heightened sense of need facing attendance at standards and policy meetings internationally. So maybe to YOU this is unremarkable. My anecdata is that it's more said, than done. However some people who work in these fields are placed under specific requirement. Perhaps it goes to your seniority and importance: I am glad I've never been held to that burden in 42 years.
- kasey_junk 3y agoJust for more anecdotes every tech company I’ve worked for that has reason to travel to China has had a blanket (all employees independent of role or seniority) policy requiring using burner laptops and phones when traveling there.