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This isn't especially British or anything. If you bring your American laptop into an American secure facility and plug it into a secure network, it then become

This isn't especially British or anything. If you bring your American laptop into an American secure facility and plug it into a secure network, it then becomes part of the secure network, and you cannot take it back. You also shouldn't get anywhere near the secure network without being told about this. EDIT: By "secure" I mean "classified/secret/top secret"

dmix 12y ago
Source? Edit: so plugging your laptop into a secure network = access to classified information, therefore your property can be destroyed?
- newaccountfool 12y ago
  You don't even need a source for that its common sense, if you want a source try to find the CIA/NSA/GCHQ employee handbook or whatever material they give to new users. Its the same idea that malware operators test out mobile malware in faraday cages so that the malware can't jump devices.
- eob 12y ago
  Yep. You've signed many contracts agreeing to that by the time you're allowed to access anything secure. At a prior job, we used to joke about "TOP SECRET cupcakes": once you brought them into the SCIF, they could never be taken back out. While Snowden, WikiLeaks, and others are demonstrating that every country may be a leaky ship information wise, the scale of the USG information security apparatus is absolutely amazing, especially if you've also gotten to see how some smaller countries do it.
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  - walshemj 12y ago
    And as a visitor you must hand over all you electronic devices (which are locked away and given back to you on exit) before going beyond reception. Years ago I interviewed at hunting's (a List X arms manufacturer) and the interviews where done in a separate room adjacent to reception you never even went inside the plant.
Swannie 12y ago
Same in secure operating environments in Australia, too. And by secure I mean environments which may, or may not, have access to (or even information about) classified networks.

dmix 12y ago

Source? Edit: so plugging your laptop into a secure network = access to classified information, therefore your property can be destroyed?

newaccountfool 12y ago
You don't even need a source for that its common sense, if you want a source try to find the CIA/NSA/GCHQ employee handbook or whatever material they give to new users. Its the same idea that malware operators test out mobile malware in faraday cages so that the malware can't jump devices.
eob 12y ago
Yep. You've signed many contracts agreeing to that by the time you're allowed to access anything secure. At a prior job, we used to joke about "TOP SECRET cupcakes": once you brought them into the SCIF, they could never be taken back out. While Snowden, WikiLeaks, and others are demonstrating that every country may be a leaky ship information wise, the scale of the USG information security apparatus is absolutely amazing, especially if you've also gotten to see how some smaller countries do it.
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- walshemj 12y ago
  And as a visitor you must hand over all you electronic devices (which are locked away and given back to you on exit) before going beyond reception. Years ago I interviewed at hunting's (a List X arms manufacturer) and the interviews where done in a separate room adjacent to reception you never even went inside the plant.

Swannie 12y ago

Same in secure operating environments in Australia, too. And by secure I mean environments which may, or may not, have access to (or even information about) classified networks.