MIVD boss: Meet without a smartphone, risk of espionage too great

Re:MIVD boss: Meet without a smartphone, risk of espionage t... by raziel2p on Monday October 12, 2020 @07:49AM (#24753452)

I generally agree with you, but one argument might be that corporate laptops can have strict security policies enforced, but people generally bring their unmanaged personal/private smartphones with them into meeting rooms.

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Re:MIVD boss: Meet without a smartphone, risk of espionage t... by Aeolun on Monday October 12, 2020 @08:25AM (#24753687)

My managed corporate smartphone is not significantly more secure than my personal one.

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Re:MIVD boss: Meet without a smartphone, risk of espionage t... by galangalalgol on Monday October 12, 2020 @08:38AM (#24753783)

You are probably not who they are worried about. My work phone has a corporate curated app store, corporate imessage server, and always on monitoring software. My private phone is full of sideloaded apks and runs as root.

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Re:MIVD boss: Meet without a smartphone, risk of espionage t... by bitcharmer on Monday October 12, 2020 @09:24AM (#24754100)

Depends on your field, I guess. Been working for investment banks in front office engineering roles and the only more paranoid organisations I had experience with were exchanges (FX).

Even as a power user you will never get admin rights on your machine, neither will you be permitted to download anything lest install it.

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Re:MIVD boss: Meet without a smartphone, risk of espionage t... by Aeolun on Monday October 12, 2020 @06:54PM (#24760433)

Makes it a bit hard to work though doesn’t it?

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