Re:Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach
by kodah on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:15AM
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There's a notion being presented that having access to physical offices is somehow tantamount to having access to a SCIF. That is the misinformation/hyperbole/fake news part. If you post on Twitter and your tweet goes viral, it is now news.
Those networks will assuredly have to be rebuilt from the ground up. He's definitely right on a number of things but fueling speculation like this, especially when it's already been acknowledged the SCIFs were not breached, is equally dangerous.
This stuff is a matter of open record: https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/23/politics/what-is-a-scif/index...
It's not about possible access of classified information, but the now unknown state of the devices and systems.
Physical barriers, like a guarded entry, produce a zone of trust. People are searched for weapons on entries to somewhat guarantee that no weapons are inside. Once the entry is un-guarded, the trust level is 0% and needs to rebuild.