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Re:U.S. Embassy in Kabul Tells Staff to Destroy Sensitive Ma... by quotemstr on Friday August 13, 2021 @06:04PM (#28175183)
If these devices are encrypted, physical destruction is less of an imperative. There's no excuse for not encrypting all data at rest these days.
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Re:U.S. Embassy in Kabul Tells Staff to Destroy Sensitive Ma... by jdavis703 on Friday August 13, 2021 @06:11PM (#28175275)
If allegations of Russian and Chinese support of the Taliban is true, it’s reasonable to be wary that foreign nation-state agents could acquire the hardware. Better to sabotage the hardware just in case they have the compute resources to break the encryption.
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Re:U.S. Embassy in Kabul Tells Staff to Destroy Sensitive Ma... by radiator on Friday August 13, 2021 @06:41PM (#28175673)
This sounds as if we don't really trust encryption, which makes one wonder, why then go into all this trouble and encrypt the data in the first place?
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Re:U.S. Embassy in Kabul Tells Staff to Destroy Sensitive Ma... by jdavis703 on Friday August 13, 2021 @08:18PM (#28176485)
Because it still protects against certain threats. For example it could protect against the case where a laptop is stolen by a petty thief who didn’t realize the device had valuable intelligence.
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