Re:CBS confirms reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s computer breached
by kunai on Saturday June 15, 2013 @01:53PM
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> Do you have 24/7 control
Pretty much. It's a single user MacBook Air, and I carry it with me at all times, never leaving it out or in the open, or even at home. For suspicious individuals, the CIA can obtain a warrant without notifying the individual, and search his/her apartment/home at convenient times when away, so I never leave it at home, either.
It's pretty much the only computing device I have that has highly sensitive data on it. I don't really care if they take my Kindle Fire; the only stuff on that is books and personal email.
If not, you're subject to a "black bag" job that could easily bypass all your protections, e.g. a physical key logger that would pick up your password/pass phrase that unlocks your disk encryption so you can use it.
Otherwise, do you surf the net from it? I don't take all your precautions, but I do run my browsers in a dedicated VM that has limited access to the rest of my infrastructure.